but, going forward, it'll be either ATI or, (much less likely) Intel. I used to be a regular Matrox buyer, then ATI and my last 2 cards have been Nvidia. But, since I'm a solid supporter of opensource and OSS-friendly companies, I bid thee adieu.
As a infrequent-to-moderate gamer, I don't need to have the latest greatest, power-sucking, screen-sizzling framerates and, in any case, ATI is neck-and-neck anyhow.
Have you seen what he's up against? The Democrats were never as obstructive to President Bush. The problem is that Obama's main idea of change - bipartisanship - is the least productive way of making change in America.
Now all your remaining security issues will fix themselves. But, don't worry, I'm sure Robert Maley will be happy to help you out - at 5 times what you were paying him.
Which Seagate drives would this be? Those numbers sound very high for typical desktop drives.
Besides sustained sequential speed is one thing but what really gives a responsive "feel" on the desktop is random access and any one of the post-JMicron-stutter SSDs will stomp even a small RAID of dual-ported enterprise drives into the dirt on random reads and writes, especially combined with the order of magnitude faster access time of an SSD.
Most people can fit their root partition on a cheap 30GB SSD with plenty of room to spare;
I thought the same, until I installed Windows 7 on a 30GB SSD - you may not want to do this if you like to hibernate and have a lot of RAM - and I haven't yet found a way to make Windows put the hibernate file on a different disk.
If anyone knows how this can be done, I'd be grateful.
It doesn't have to be anything as serious as rape; having your name published with respect to any crime or a wide number of legal activities could hurt your chances of employment.
And, despite all their efforts, every month, every week, hell, almost every day another security exploit is discovered or released that shows just how broken previous versions of their platform is:
Of course, the biggest problem is that most users run Windows with Admin rights but M$ is to blame for making Windows too hard to run without full admin rights. I would have had a lot more respect for them if they'd bought out a company like Avecto or BeyondTrust, and spun that kind of functionality into a Service Pack like they did with Security Center so that running with day-to-day with admin rights wouldn't be necessary. No, UAC / RunAs isn't the same as Privilege Manager or Privilege Guard as it doesn't sufficiently modify the security context of a logged-in user
I'm totally with you but you're going about this the wrong way - do what Blender did, to buy out the source code ( and I contributed $25 to that so many years ago ) - start the Foundation to Pwn Sc0, get a site set up get the EFF, the Linux Foundation and whoever else on board and I'm sure you'll have enough for a buyout in a week's time.
I'm very disappointed that IBM didn't solve this problem years ago.
Except it's not how they operate their machine but how some other party does. But, that aside, where do we set the bar? Do we mandate a specific set of programs? Do we have to create a testing suite for all programs to pass and only those that achieve a certain score absolve the user from responsibility?
Or do we license users to own / operated computers and license manufacturers to sell them following the criteria of the automotive industry?
M$ are the last people who should be calling for a tax since it's their broken shit that caused decades of headaches. Yes they've gotten better but that doesn't wipe out all the crap we'd had to live with all these years.
However, I think the real issue for a lot of users who aren't savvy is that they might be fed up of the bloatware crap like Symantec / Norton / McAfee which (used to?) suck so much in terms of CPU usage and disk activity.
Better, cheaper alternatives have been around for years - AntiVir, AVG, Kaspersky, for example. And I must say that Microsoft Security Essentials isn't half bad.
Instead of their stupid EULA, perhaps M$ should put up a warning during install or first run that a security product is required and used the lack of one as an automatic shutdown after 2 weeks instead of their activation.
It was the 1950's, in America and Henrietta was black - she didn't have any rights but the right to die. Although, I admit, many were treated badly back in those days, including lower-class Caucasians
Then pay the people who are doing the hard work - let management take the pay cut. It's astonishing to me that we've become so incredibly stupid that we've allowed the gap between workers and management to widen to such an extent, even after all the financial scandals of the last 2 decades.
Yeah, keep bashing the French because you know, they never overthrew a corrupt goverment that was actually located on the same side of the world as the freedom fighters. Oh and they never had to fight against an occupation either.
So, when will the US be giving back the Statue of Liberty?
Oh, please. The people who want to rip you off will have NO trouble whether it's online or offline - and rest assured, in the vast majority of cases, they'll provide contact info which will likely lead to a voice mailbox and no further.
If you think that mandating contact info on a website is going to dissuade scamming, you're purely ignorant.
To open the account as a business account, sure. But after that, unless you're suspected of fraud, they don't ( and probably shouldn't) give a fuck.
Having opened 3 small business accounts in the last 15 years, I can tell you that if anyone called my bank to complain that they couldn't get in touch with me to "resolve a dispute" they would promptly be told "Please seek legal counsel, and is there anything else I can help you with? No, then my name is Ingrid, and thank you for calling Heartless Bank and have a wonderful day".
Just because you haven't heard of something doesn't make it obscure. Tens of millions of Americans still can't find Iraq on a map - doesn't mean it doesn't exist or isn't "mainstream".
And, at least one major "mainstream" US news network can tell Egypt from Iraq.
Caché / MUMPS is heavily used in Healthcare and Finance. Your life and your financial future may well depend on apps that run on them.
Just because something isn't incessantly hyped by egocentric CEOs doesn't mean it's not dependable, versatile or worthwhile. If you're Joe Couchsitter waiting for the next big thing to break down your door, then, okay, you probably would never had heard of a databases besides Oracle and its closest competitors ( or maybe DBase if you're above a certain age).
But, getting on this newfangled Internet thingie and using an obscure tool called a search engine would have given you lots of alternatives to ponder, at any time in the last decade.
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but, going forward, it'll be either ATI or, (much less likely) Intel. I used to be a regular Matrox buyer, then ATI and my last 2 cards have
been Nvidia. But, since I'm a solid supporter of opensource and OSS-friendly companies, I bid thee adieu.
As a infrequent-to-moderate gamer, I don't need to have the latest greatest, power-sucking, screen-sizzling framerates and, in any case, ATI is neck-and-neck
anyhow.
Have you seen what he's up against? The Democrats were never as obstructive to President Bush.
The problem is that Obama's main idea of change - bipartisanship - is the least productive way of making change
in America.
Now all your remaining security issues will fix themselves. But, don't worry, I'm sure Robert Maley will be happy to help you out - at 5 times what you were paying him.
I don't see how a 2-drive RAID0 of Barracuda 7200.12s could be as fast as you claim, especially if you're using FakeRAID.
See here: http://www.cluboc.net/reviews/hard_drives/sata/seagate/7200.12/p3.asp
How are you benchmarking your RAID?
As for highly transactional databases, I would imagine that SLC SSDs would be the way to go, still using wear-leveling, of course.
Which Seagate drives would this be? Those numbers sound very high for typical desktop drives.
Besides sustained sequential speed is one thing but what really gives a responsive "feel" on
the desktop is random access and any one of the post-JMicron-stutter SSDs will stomp even a small RAID of
dual-ported enterprise drives into the dirt on random reads and writes, especially combined with the order of magnitude
faster access time of an SSD.
Most people can fit their root partition on a cheap 30GB SSD with plenty of room to spare;
I thought the same, until I installed Windows 7 on a 30GB SSD - you may not want to do this if you like to hibernate
and have a lot of RAM - and I haven't yet found a way to make Windows put the hibernate file on a different disk.
If anyone knows how this can be done, I'd be grateful.
It doesn't have to be anything as serious as rape; having your name published with respect to any crime or
a wide number of legal activities could hurt your chances of employment.
How long before I can print my very own live copy of Milla Jovovich? Can't let Bruce Willis have all the fun.
And, despite all their efforts, every month, every week, hell, almost every day another security exploit is discovered or released that shows just how broken previous versions of their platform is:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9164038/Microsoft_Don_t_press_F1_key_in_Windows_XP
Of course, the biggest problem is that most users run Windows with Admin rights but M$ is to blame for making Windows too hard to run without full admin rights.
I would have had a lot more respect for them if they'd bought out a company like Avecto or BeyondTrust, and spun that kind of functionality into a Service Pack like they did with Security Center so that running with day-to-day with admin rights wouldn't be necessary.
No, UAC / RunAs isn't the same as Privilege Manager or Privilege Guard as it doesn't sufficiently modify the security context of a logged-in user
Well, beards are itchy and I wouldn't be caught dead in suspenders.
I'm totally with you but you're going about this the wrong way - do what Blender did, to buy out the source code ( and I contributed $25 to that so many years ago ) - start the Foundation to Pwn Sc0, get a site set up get the EFF, the Linux Foundation and whoever else on board and I'm sure you'll have enough for a buyout in a week's time.
I'm very disappointed that IBM didn't solve this problem years ago.
Except it's not how they operate their machine but how some other party does.
But, that aside, where do we set the bar? Do we mandate a specific set of programs?
Do we have to create a testing suite for all programs to pass and only those that achieve
a certain score absolve the user from responsibility?
Or do we license users to own / operated computers and license manufacturers to sell them
following the criteria of the automotive industry?
So why didn't the insurance industry pay for the bailouts instead of Joe Voter?
M$ are the last people who should be calling for a tax since it's their broken shit that caused decades of headaches.
Yes they've gotten better but that doesn't wipe out all the crap we'd had to live with all these years.
However, I think the real issue for a lot of users who aren't savvy is that they might be fed up of the bloatware
crap like Symantec / Norton / McAfee which (used to?) suck so much in terms of CPU usage and disk activity.
Better, cheaper alternatives have been around for years - AntiVir, AVG, Kaspersky, for example.
And I must say that Microsoft Security Essentials isn't half bad.
Instead of their stupid EULA, perhaps M$ should put up a warning during install or first run that a security product
is required and used the lack of one as an automatic shutdown after 2 weeks instead of their activation.
It was the 1950's, in America and Henrietta was black - she didn't have any rights but the right to die. Although, I admit, many were treated badly back in those days, including lower-class Caucasians
Then pay the people who are doing the hard work - let management take the pay cut. It's astonishing to me that we've become so incredibly stupid
that we've allowed the gap between workers and management to widen to such an extent, even after all the financial scandals of the last 2 decades.
I suppose they could always try Krugle.
I typed "build google" - see link for results:
http://www.krugle.org/kse/entfiles?query=build+google#1
Not to mention, if Google pulls out, China would have a more difficult time to steal their IP to build
a comparable search engine.
I'm only half-kidding
Hmph, well thanks for hanging back for 2 1/2 years while pretty much the rest of the entire fucking world was bleeding.
Of course, Germany helped kick their own asses by deciding to invade Russia just a few months before the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor.
Yeah, keep bashing the French because you know, they never overthrew a corrupt goverment that was actually
located on the same side of the world as the freedom fighters.
Oh and they never had to fight against an occupation either.
So, when will the US be giving back the Statue of Liberty?
Oh, please. The people who want to rip you off will have NO trouble whether it's online or offline - and rest assured, in the vast majority of cases, they'll provide contact info which will likely lead to a voice mailbox and no further.
If you think that mandating contact info on a website is going to dissuade scamming, you're purely ignorant.
To open the account as a business account, sure. But after that, unless you're suspected of fraud, they don't ( and probably shouldn't) give a fuck.
Having opened 3 small business accounts in the last 15 years, I can tell you that if anyone called my bank to complain that they couldn't get in touch with me to "resolve a dispute" they would promptly be told "Please seek legal counsel, and is there anything else I can help you with? No, then my name is Ingrid, and thank you for calling Heartless Bank and have a wonderful day".
Just because you haven't heard of something doesn't make it obscure. Tens of millions of Americans still can't find Iraq on a map - doesn't mean it doesn't exist or isn't "mainstream".
And, at least one major "mainstream" US news network can tell Egypt from Iraq.
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907270040
Caché / MUMPS is heavily used in Healthcare and Finance.
Your life and your financial future may well depend on apps that run on them.
Just because something isn't incessantly hyped by egocentric CEOs doesn't mean it's not dependable, versatile or worthwhile. If you're Joe Couchsitter waiting for the next big thing to break down your door, then, okay, you probably would never had heard of a databases besides Oracle and its closest competitors ( or maybe DBase if you're above a certain age).
But, getting on this newfangled Internet thingie and using an obscure tool called a search engine would have given you lots of alternatives to ponder, at any time in the last decade.
That may not be what actual engineering is but that describes a lot of software "engineering"
And, me without mod points.
I award you a +10 Insightful.