Nice. New strat, if we still played for points that is.;-)
Post something copied but informative from somewhere else, as AC. Then, as AC, say "nice but why AC?" Then, you reply and say "cuz I'm a good guy." Instant karma! (gonna get you...)
Sim, e voce nao sabe Portuguese tambem. N'esc pas?
Je ne parle muy bien francais, mais eu posso ablar Espanol, e eu lembrar um pedaco de Francais: Voulez vouz couchez avec moi ce soir? Uma musica de ois oitentas...
Great idea, thanks. I just passed up something for my sig, about Novell indemnifying SuSE being equal to giving life insurance on your pet rock, because the quote was 184 chars and the limit is 120. But I'll take you up on your offer, as it'll likely be much less. Cheers!
Indemnifying customers of legal action against SCO is like offering life insurance for your pet rock: There is little fear you will ever need to exercise the right and collect on it.
You almost gave me a new sig. It's 184 chars though, and the limit is 120. Doh!
You're absolutely right. This costs them nothing, and gives them beaucoup goodwill. (Sorry, don't know German.)
I'm currently running Windows 2003 Server. It has the following serious bugs; I'm moving back to Windows 2000 Advanced Server shortly.
1. Video performance is horrible. Running BSplayer, it consistently tells me "Overlay failed!" then "Display hardware is not capable of color-space conversions. Switching to RGB". And the video is then very jerky compared to running it from my half-as-fast other machine running XP (and that's over a 100 MB network link as well, so something's seriously wrong with 2003's video drivers).
2. When I try to watch something else after watching the first video, it tells me "Can't create DirectDraw surface!" I have to drap-and-drop twice (consistently) to watch a second video.
3. When I try to move files around with Windows Explorer, a lot of the time it thinks the file is in use (it's in use by yourself you idiot!). Moving them from the command line, immediately after I try 7 times with the GUI, and there's no problem.
I'm sure there are other issues but these are enough for me to give up. Why go backwards with Windows when Linux is an option? I have a 3 x 250 GB RAID-5 array, running NTFS, which I really don't want to back up and restore (I don't have that many CDs or DVD+Rs...). However, the LinuxDefender live-CD looks pretty cool, it promises NTFS read and write, but I don't know whether it supports RAID arrays. I'm currently downloading it, so hopefully I'll be able to move soon. The games I used to play I don't have time for these days, so that's not the barrier, and I've switched from Outlook to Mozilla (much slower downloading, but great spam catcher).
So use Undisker and Daemon Tools (Google for them both).
Undisker creates ISOs out of your CDs.
Daemon Tools lets you create "virtual" CD drives, connect the ISOs to them, and then you can "change" CDs in your virtual drives just by clicking a few keys. No digging through CD cases.
Some manufacturers have coded their games to not run if Daemon Tools (and the like) are running. I won't buy those games.
Well, I never said it would replace the current system. It would supplement it: if your provider went down you could still access the Intraweb, just at a slower rate.
And it could aggregate as well, so that you would have your DSL/Cable bandwidth and also wireless "free" bandwidth.
And as the other responder noted, neighborhood networks would "cache" content locally and would not have 5-second ping times.
Also, I retract my statement: Windows XP cannot handle RAID arrays. I just created an array in a VM, then tried to attach them to an XP VM, and it identified them as new disks. So if you want redundancy, you're stuck on either Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 Server; you cannot use XP.
Is anyone else reminded of those virus programs that claimed to magically make your 386 a 486? Do you really think the BIOS is the only difference between the two cards?
I'm also reminded of Microsoft's disputed release of NT 3.51 Workstation vs. Server. The price differential was significant, and the only difference between the two installs was a couple Registry entries.
Workstation had all the same code that Server had; it was just "crippled" by the Registry entries so that Microsoft could make more money selling Server versions to the Enterprise.
(I love that high-tech companies these days are targetting the Star Trek mothership with their marketing campaigns!)
But seriously, that was pretty sneaky. It was the exact same build (I know because I built NT back then), but just had a couple bits flipped. And it's still happening: XP can handle RAID arrays, but cannot create them: you need a Server product for that. And NT 4.0 could create RAID arrays from Basic disks; as of Windows 2000, the disks must be Dynamic in order to create a RAID array out of them. This of course makes it impossible to migrate that RAID array to a Linux solution, meaning administrators will balk at the time-consuming "create new array with different disks (i.e., buy more hardware), then copy the entire thing over, then find new use for old disks."
Seriously, my next high tech move will be to build a RAID-5 array out of the 3 x 250 GB drives I got for Christmas. A few months ago I lost a 120 GB drive which had a bunch of stuff I didn't have backed up, so I'm making sure that this never happens again.
I still won't be protected from fire or theft, but drives die all the time, and as long as more than one doesn't die at once I'll be okay.
PS The fortune is currently "The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten." Please don't forget about this Thing!;-)
I can't believe moderators wasted their valuable mod points, which can be used to raise up good posts to help the community, to knock down this bit of mild humor.
Besides, my brother's a musician and I do know what I'm talking about.;-)
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I haven't had a shower all weekend you insensitive clod!
My guess? Zero. They all did; the story's just trickling out slowly.
Why didn't they go with USB or Firewire? Or, for that matter, Bluetooth or 802.11a/b/g?
Post something copied but informative from somewhere else, as AC. Then, as AC, say "nice but why AC?" Then, you reply and say "cuz I'm a good guy." Instant karma! (gonna get you...)
Um, thank you to whoever moderated me. I speak Portuguese fluently, some Spanish and um petite peu de French (man, high school was SOOOO long ago!).
Interviewer: "So, d'you wear boxers or briefs?"
Bush Sr.: "Depends..."
In true South Park fashion, I read this as "Anals of Im-probe-able Research."
Methinks you'll only finds tads at the poles...
Je ne parle muy bien francais, mais eu posso ablar Espanol, e eu lembrar um pedaco de Francais: Voulez vouz couchez avec moi ce soir? Uma musica de ois oitentas...
Great idea, thanks. I just passed up something for my sig, about Novell indemnifying SuSE being equal to giving life insurance on your pet rock, because the quote was 184 chars and the limit is 120. But I'll take you up on your offer, as it'll likely be much less. Cheers!
You almost gave me a new sig. It's 184 chars though, and the limit is 120. Doh!
You're absolutely right. This costs them nothing, and gives them beaucoup goodwill. (Sorry, don't know German.)
No wife, no horse, no mustache.
1. Video performance is horrible. Running BSplayer, it consistently tells me "Overlay failed!" then "Display hardware is not capable of color-space conversions. Switching to RGB". And the video is then very jerky compared to running it from my half-as-fast other machine running XP (and that's over a 100 MB network link as well, so something's seriously wrong with 2003's video drivers).
2. When I try to watch something else after watching the first video, it tells me "Can't create DirectDraw surface!" I have to drap-and-drop twice (consistently) to watch a second video.
3. When I try to move files around with Windows Explorer, a lot of the time it thinks the file is in use (it's in use by yourself you idiot!). Moving them from the command line, immediately after I try 7 times with the GUI, and there's no problem.
I'm sure there are other issues but these are enough for me to give up. Why go backwards with Windows when Linux is an option? I have a 3 x 250 GB RAID-5 array, running NTFS, which I really don't want to back up and restore (I don't have that many CDs or DVD+Rs...). However, the LinuxDefender live-CD looks pretty cool, it promises NTFS read and write, but I don't know whether it supports RAID arrays. I'm currently downloading it, so hopefully I'll be able to move soon. The games I used to play I don't have time for these days, so that's not the barrier, and I've switched from Outlook to Mozilla (much slower downloading, but great spam catcher).
Contract that verb, you insensitive clod!
The rest of us are going to the stars. You can inherit the earth.
What, are you living under a rock?
Undisker creates ISOs out of your CDs.
Daemon Tools lets you create "virtual" CD drives, connect the ISOs to them, and then you can "change" CDs in your virtual drives just by clicking a few keys. No digging through CD cases.
Some manufacturers have coded their games to not run if Daemon Tools (and the like) are running. I won't buy those games.
Well, http://www.theknightswhosay.nu is still available, Sir Belvedere...
For the same reason that submissions and editor additions contain spleling erros: because it increases discussion, which increases ad-page-hits.
Slashdot is just as ratings-driven as MIT Technology Review. It's just better because we get to talk amongst ourselves out here.
And it could aggregate as well, so that you would have your DSL/Cable bandwidth and also wireless "free" bandwidth.
And as the other responder noted, neighborhood networks would "cache" content locally and would not have 5-second ping times.
So there's a castle in England with a big-toothed rabbit making Legos? I thought they were made in Denmark...
Also, I retract my statement: Windows XP cannot handle RAID arrays. I just created an array in a VM, then tried to attach them to an XP VM, and it identified them as new disks. So if you want redundancy, you're stuck on either Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 Server; you cannot use XP.
I'm also reminded of Microsoft's disputed release of NT 3.51 Workstation vs. Server. The price differential was significant, and the only difference between the two installs was a couple Registry entries.
Workstation had all the same code that Server had; it was just "crippled" by the Registry entries so that Microsoft could make more money selling Server versions to the Enterprise.
(I love that high-tech companies these days are targetting the Star Trek mothership with their marketing campaigns!)
But seriously, that was pretty sneaky. It was the exact same build (I know because I built NT back then), but just had a couple bits flipped. And it's still happening: XP can handle RAID arrays, but cannot create them: you need a Server product for that. And NT 4.0 could create RAID arrays from Basic disks; as of Windows 2000, the disks must be Dynamic in order to create a RAID array out of them. This of course makes it impossible to migrate that RAID array to a Linux solution, meaning administrators will balk at the time-consuming "create new array with different disks (i.e., buy more hardware), then copy the entire thing over, then find new use for old disks."
Seriously, my next high tech move will be to build a RAID-5 array out of the 3 x 250 GB drives I got for Christmas. A few months ago I lost a 120 GB drive which had a bunch of stuff I didn't have backed up, so I'm making sure that this never happens again.
I still won't be protected from fire or theft, but drives die all the time, and as long as more than one doesn't die at once I'll be okay.
PS The fortune is currently "The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten." Please don't forget about this Thing!
Besides, my brother's a musician and I do know what I'm talking about. ;-)
C'mon, hit me again. I double-dare you.