SCSI is simply the best out there, and this is just another vague attempt to try to become a better rip off than ATA already is.
I feel bad enough having a 133 ATA drive in my computer, but it's got it's own channel and is 80 gigs. I use three 9 gig Ultra scsi drives for my OS, scratch/data and swap drives, and I'm in the market for a nice ultra 160 68 pin LVD model.
So let me break it down for all of you:
1) ATA isn't going to do it, serial or otherwise 2) Fibre isn't going to do it, period. 3) 1394 has a slim chance in hell of doing it...
Doing what?
BEING BETTER THAN SCSI. CASE CLOSED. To paraphrase Homer, I like my beer cold, my television loud, and my hard drives SCSI!
Yes, it's expensive - but that's OK, I don't mind paying for it. Why? The same reason I insist on 2700 DDR memory instead of 2100. BECAUSE IT'S BETTER.
1) GBA type game functionality 2) An address book that synchs with my desktop and email system 3) Functional, worldwide, wireless broadband (this isn't really a part of the PDA itself, it just doesn't exist yet) 4) A way to input text that is private and equally fast to touch typing
#2 and 4 are already well past developed, 1 has no business implications, and 3 isn't going to happen until god knows when - but in all reality (and I mean wireless broadband scattered across Alasakan wilderness) I don't see it happening for another 20 years or more.
So it runs Linux. Great. That Samsung box that lets me remotely administer unix boxes looks even better - but until all my requirements are met, I'm not upgrading from my POS Palm III.
Your gross ignorance of how "fair use" works is appalling. I think the RIAA is crap, I think this will fail, in fact I think their entire business will fail if they don't do something about the fact that they no longer control the means of production or distribution.
HOWEVER - what fair use basically means is that a CD is meant to be thought of like a book. If I loan you a book I own, you are borrowing it and I am no longer in posession of it. You can eventually return it (at which point you don't have it anymore) or buy your own copy, or buy my copy from me. All of these options constitute legal, fair use.
Let's say under this scenario, the author sells 1,000,000 copies. Now, let's move on to scenario #2.
I possess a machine that produces an exact replica of the book. Rather than loaning you my copy, I simply make you one. You don't need to buy one. You're so happy with it that I decide to make a million copies, and distribute them on a first come first serve basis.
Let's say under this scenario, the author sells 500,000 copies.
The software/music/movie leeches on the P2P sites will insist that the author is more likely to sell 10,000,000 copies, because so many more people are aware of his work.
The RIAA/MPAA will insist that the author will sell 0 copies, because anyone who wants it will just get it for free.
More to the point, however, I think the problem is the loss of ARCADES. Dave and Busters just doesn't do it as far as economy goes (very expensive) and I don't know how many of those charming, cigarette burn covered arcades are still around.
Only one in San Francisco/Oakland that I know of... God I miss the silver bowl. Where the hell are they going to put pinball machines?
And bring back arcade games at 7-11 - that's where I learned how to play!
What?! I have a very difficult time believing that people who devote their weekends to slashdot could have anything less than a well rounded sense of humor.
It needs to have a basic unix shell, and be POSIX compliant.
It needs to have a nice, backlit screen, preferably with color.
It should have a distinct, elegant, and logical OS.
It should come with a way of downloading a website and all links off the website, and all links off the sub websites. Obviously, there are some sites out there that this wouldn't work on due to size constraints, but being able to download a ton of technical documentation for later review would be key.
It should be able to synch with Macs, Windows, and any given unix out there.
It should play video games at least as well as the original gameboy.
You're just getting started. Everything from the Beastie to the Polyspock project to Pirate's Hollow to the Cup of Fur BBS... That truly was a golden time in the bay area, particularly the east bay.
Oh, and cool beans as well. NirvanaNet rocked!
I hear polyspock might live on, but you can find a lot of the same people at www.pigdog.org
Are you on crack? Calling Exchange's "groupware features" anything but an utter joke is absurd. They're still trying to catch up to what Lotus has been doing for years, and they aren't doing a very good job of it.
If you just want to run email, Exchange/Outlook is fine. If you want a collaborative groupware sollution with work flow built in, Domino/Notes is the only answer, currently.
Plus, Domino runs on Linux, Aix, Solaris, NT, 2000, OS/2, AS/400... The list goes on and on. As far as a shared database, just setup shared mail.
Not to mention, unlike Exchange, when one mail database gets hosed your whole server doesn't get scrapped. And you aren't supporting Microsoft.
1) I never downloaded this album on MP3. I don't know why, but I never really got around to it. I've got two of Wilco's older albums, love both of 'em, but I just didn't feel the need to download.
2) When I heard this was being released, I read the review at theonion.com and promptly ran out and purchased it. It was 15.00, and although I think all CDs should be about 8.99 before tax or 10.00 with tax, it was easily worth it.
3) No single? "Kamera" and "Heavy Metal Drummer" both have first single written all over them, not to mention that some of the more mellow songs would make a fortune on the radio if the band had the right publicity. This isn't a radio band, anyway - they've generally been ignored by the main stream.
4) I can't believe a record label would be short sighted to the point of letting a great band like this walk. The album sounds like TRL fodder in comparison to some of the jumbled sounds that Radiohead put out recently, and to think that releasing a band like Wilco on the grounds of being experimental... It's no wonder the state of the music industry is so awful.
5) Here's a brilliant realization, only made her about a million times before: YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO KEEP COPIES OF ANY ALBUM, SINGLE, MOVIE OR ANY OTHER PIECE OF ENTERTAINMENT FROM APPEARING. If it can be played on a television, it is a video signal. It can be captured and recorded. If it can be played on a stereo, it is an audio signal. It can be captured and recorded. This will never end.
The true free-loaders won't care if it's CD quality or not, and yes, there are people out there who will never pay for a CD ever again. Get used to it, and find other ways to get 'em - merchandise, touring, whatever.
And for those of you who haven't heard it yet, check out Wilco's new album. It's BRILLIANT.
Welcome to the capitalist world. If you don't like it, I suggest you start voting socialist or move. Sometimes you make money, sometimes you lose money. Economic cycles, ya know.
Ah, but you are missing the true beauty of this. Just wait until I setup my beowolf cluster of these boxes, and you will realize the fail-safety and processing power increases.
I wouldn't worry about it, but *you're* the one bringing it up...
I think there is a lot of truth to the statement that linux is for people who have microsoft, and *BSD is for people who love unix. They are different tools for different jobs.
I run OpenBSD for anything that requires constant stability and security. If I want to play around with multimedia and know that all my drivers are supported and goof around with random software, I use Linux.
In short, I use Linux for most workstations and OpenBSD for servers. Once FreeBSD can really utilize multi-procs I'll probably start using it more often. I use XP as well, mainly for Photoshop and games.
Computers are a tool. Linux is not the best tool for every job, and neither is OpenBSD. Microsoft is more of a toy than a tool to me, but it could certainly do a lot more than some of the people here give it credit for.
If you really want to start a flame war, let's talk licenses. I think the BSD license is the best, and I'm really not in to the GPL license. But that's just me..
It's called packet filter - just pf, rather than ipf. It was developed by the OpenBSD team, and has some features they wanted to add but never could due to the restrictions on the IPF license. That's what Theo claimed in an interview I read, anyway.
It's the file system speed improvements that really make an upgrade to OpenBSD 3.0 worthwhile, though..
This makes perfect sense, especially for companies going under. Why leave some closed-source relic behind as a worthless chapter 11 asset when you can give it to people who can continue to develop it?
This is exactly the problem for all the people who loved BeOS, and it's a shame that they haven't open sourced it for all the devoted supporters to use.
It's good to see that O'Reilly still has his head screwed on.
Until Hurd is closer to Linux or BSD in partition size and overall capabilities, it isn't going to pick up much in the way of popularity.
What they have now is a rather "chicken and the egg" syndrome - it won't achieve popularity until more people start developing for it, and people won't care enough to develop for it until it's more popular.
However, the biggest drawback to Hurd is probably the fact that the people it might most appeal to (people who don't like linux or bsd style unix purists) are less likely to use it because they won't want to put up with the Hurd philosophy, when BSD is already there.
Who is going to use it? Linux has all the bells and whistles for people who love the GPL, and the BSD people who like pure unix and freedom (I know, what is pure unix anyway) are going to stick with *BSD.
In retrospect, it really was my fault. Some of the Notes developers were really into sneaking up on me with Nerf guns, and after a few weeks it really got old. So I decided on revenge.
One Friday I came in late with a borrowed automatic paintball gun capable of shooting almost 200 rounds and full camoflage. I opened up on the whole office, learned that paintball paint doesn't wash off as easily as advertised, and that the "fun office environment" wasn't nearly as fun as I thought it was.
Once HR caught wind of it, I was told not to return on Monday. Although I was pretty regretful at the time, I look back on it (now that I'm employed again) as well worth it.
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SCSI is simply the best out there, and this is just another vague attempt to try to become a better rip off than ATA already is.
I feel bad enough having a 133 ATA drive in my computer, but it's got it's own channel and is 80 gigs. I use three 9 gig Ultra scsi drives for my OS, scratch/data and swap drives, and I'm in the market for a nice ultra 160 68 pin LVD model.
So let me break it down for all of you:
1) ATA isn't going to do it, serial or otherwise
2) Fibre isn't going to do it, period.
3) 1394 has a slim chance in hell of doing it...
Doing what?
BEING BETTER THAN SCSI. CASE CLOSED. To paraphrase Homer, I like my beer cold, my television loud, and my hard drives SCSI!
Yes, it's expensive - but that's OK, I don't mind paying for it. Why? The same reason I insist on 2700 DDR memory instead of 2100. BECAUSE IT'S BETTER.
I mean - c'mon. I only want a few things:
1) GBA type game functionality
2) An address book that synchs with my desktop and email system
3) Functional, worldwide, wireless broadband (this isn't really a part of the PDA itself, it just doesn't exist yet)
4) A way to input text that is private and equally fast to touch typing
#2 and 4 are already well past developed, 1 has no business implications, and 3 isn't going to happen until god knows when - but in all reality (and I mean wireless broadband scattered across Alasakan wilderness) I don't see it happening for another 20 years or more.
So it runs Linux. Great. That Samsung box that lets me remotely administer unix boxes looks even better - but until all my requirements are met, I'm not upgrading from my POS Palm III.
Your gross ignorance of how "fair use" works is appalling. I think the RIAA is crap, I think this will fail, in fact I think their entire business will fail if they don't do something about the fact that they no longer control the means of production or distribution.
HOWEVER - what fair use basically means is that a CD is meant to be thought of like a book. If I loan you a book I own, you are borrowing it and I am no longer in posession of it. You can eventually return it (at which point you don't have it anymore) or buy your own copy, or buy my copy from me. All of these options constitute legal, fair use.
Let's say under this scenario, the author sells 1,000,000 copies. Now, let's move on to scenario #2.
I possess a machine that produces an exact replica of the book. Rather than loaning you my copy, I simply make you one. You don't need to buy one. You're so happy with it that I decide to make a million copies, and distribute them on a first come first serve basis.
Let's say under this scenario, the author sells 500,000 copies.
The software/music/movie leeches on the P2P sites will insist that the author is more likely to sell 10,000,000 copies, because so many more people are aware of his work.
The RIAA/MPAA will insist that the author will sell 0 copies, because anyone who wants it will just get it for free.
BOTH SIDES ARE WRONG. So get over it.
Yeah, Cal Berkeley has an outstanding arcade, but they kicked all the non-students out several years ago - so now I don't get to play.
Time to go after that EE degree from Cal, I suppose...
More to the point, however, I think the problem is the loss of ARCADES. Dave and Busters just doesn't do it as far as economy goes (very expensive) and I don't know how many of those charming, cigarette burn covered arcades are still around.
Only one in San Francisco/Oakland that I know of... God I miss the silver bowl. Where the hell are they going to put pinball machines?
And bring back arcade games at 7-11 - that's where I learned how to play!
What?! I have a very difficult time believing that people who devote their weekends to slashdot could have anything less than a well rounded sense of humor.
It needs to have a basic unix shell, and be POSIX compliant.
It needs to have a nice, backlit screen, preferably with color.
It should have a distinct, elegant, and logical OS.
It should come with a way of downloading a website and all links off the website, and all links off the sub websites. Obviously, there are some sites out there that this wouldn't work on due to size constraints, but being able to download a ton of technical documentation for later review would be key.
It should be able to synch with Macs, Windows, and any given unix out there.
It should play video games at least as well as the original gameboy.
I think that this thread has the highest ratio or trolls to real posts, ever.
That being said, I think this box looks great and I'm an avid BSD user.
You're just getting started. Everything from the Beastie to the Polyspock project to Pirate's Hollow to the Cup of Fur BBS... That truly was a golden time in the bay area, particularly the east bay.
Oh, and cool beans as well. NirvanaNet rocked!
I hear polyspock might live on, but you can find a lot of the same people at www.pigdog.org
*Please* tell me that your handle wasn't named after the band Winger.
I know that was a blatant troll, but it honestly made me laugh out loud. Very well done.
Are you on crack? Calling Exchange's "groupware features" anything but an utter joke is absurd. They're still trying to catch up to what Lotus has been doing for years, and they aren't doing a very good job of it.
If you just want to run email, Exchange/Outlook is fine. If you want a collaborative groupware sollution with work flow built in, Domino/Notes is the only answer, currently.
Plus, Domino runs on Linux, Aix, Solaris, NT, 2000, OS/2, AS/400... The list goes on and on. As far as a shared database, just setup shared mail.
Not to mention, unlike Exchange, when one mail database gets hosed your whole server doesn't get scrapped. And you aren't supporting Microsoft.
You forgot to mention the self-important types who insist on capitalizing "Open Source".
If only he could see what it has become. DVD 9 and pro-scan are marked improvements, but it still has a long way to go.
1) I never downloaded this album on MP3. I don't know why, but I never really got around to it. I've got two of Wilco's older albums, love both of 'em, but I just didn't feel the need to download.
2) When I heard this was being released, I read the review at theonion.com and promptly ran out and purchased it. It was 15.00, and although I think all CDs should be about 8.99 before tax or 10.00 with tax, it was easily worth it.
3) No single? "Kamera" and "Heavy Metal Drummer" both have first single written all over them, not to mention that some of the more mellow songs would make a fortune on the radio if the band had the right publicity. This isn't a radio band, anyway - they've generally been ignored by the main stream.
4) I can't believe a record label would be short sighted to the point of letting a great band like this walk. The album sounds like TRL fodder in comparison to some of the jumbled sounds that Radiohead put out recently, and to think that releasing a band like Wilco on the grounds of being experimental... It's no wonder the state of the music industry is so awful.
5) Here's a brilliant realization, only made her about a million times before: YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO KEEP COPIES OF ANY ALBUM, SINGLE, MOVIE OR ANY OTHER PIECE OF ENTERTAINMENT FROM APPEARING. If it can be played on a television, it is a video signal. It can be captured and recorded. If it can be played on a stereo, it is an audio signal. It can be captured and recorded. This will never end.
The true free-loaders won't care if it's CD quality or not, and yes, there are people out there who will never pay for a CD ever again. Get used to it, and find other ways to get 'em - merchandise, touring, whatever.
And for those of you who haven't heard it yet, check out Wilco's new album. It's BRILLIANT.
Welcome to the capitalist world. If you don't like it, I suggest you start voting socialist or move. Sometimes you make money, sometimes you lose money. Economic cycles, ya know.
Ah, but you are missing the true beauty of this. Just wait until I setup my beowolf cluster of these boxes, and you will realize the fail-safety and processing power increases.
Yes, I just said BEWOLF CLUSTER of these boxes.
I actually feel a nice sense of relief when I read this Troll. It just wouldn't be a slashdot *BSD story without him.
And since he was so late today, I was actually concerned that he was the one who had died, rather than BSD.
I wouldn't worry about it, but *you're* the one bringing it up...
I think there is a lot of truth to the statement that linux is for people who have microsoft, and *BSD is for people who love unix. They are different tools for different jobs.
I run OpenBSD for anything that requires constant stability and security. If I want to play around with multimedia and know that all my drivers are supported and goof around with random software, I use Linux.
In short, I use Linux for most workstations and OpenBSD for servers. Once FreeBSD can really utilize multi-procs I'll probably start using it more often. I use XP as well, mainly for Photoshop and games.
Computers are a tool. Linux is not the best tool for every job, and neither is OpenBSD. Microsoft is more of a toy than a tool to me, but it could certainly do a lot more than some of the people here give it credit for.
If you really want to start a flame war, let's talk licenses. I think the BSD license is the best, and I'm really not in to the GPL license. But that's just me..
It's called packet filter - just pf, rather than ipf. It was developed by the OpenBSD team, and has some features they wanted to add but never could due to the restrictions on the IPF license. That's what Theo claimed in an interview I read, anyway.
It's the file system speed improvements that really make an upgrade to OpenBSD 3.0 worthwhile, though..
We're going to decide if we should hire or fire you, obviously.
Now get back to work!
This makes perfect sense, especially for companies going under. Why leave some closed-source relic behind as a worthless chapter 11 asset when you can give it to people who can continue to develop it?
This is exactly the problem for all the people who loved BeOS, and it's a shame that they haven't open sourced it for all the devoted supporters to use.
It's good to see that O'Reilly still has his head screwed on.
Until Hurd is closer to Linux or BSD in partition size and overall capabilities, it isn't going to pick up much in the way of popularity.
What they have now is a rather "chicken and the egg" syndrome - it won't achieve popularity until more people start developing for it, and people won't care enough to develop for it until it's more popular.
However, the biggest drawback to Hurd is probably the fact that the people it might most appeal to (people who don't like linux or bsd style unix purists) are less likely to use it because they won't want to put up with the Hurd philosophy, when BSD is already there.
Who is going to use it? Linux has all the bells and whistles for people who love the GPL, and the BSD people who like pure unix and freedom (I know, what is pure unix anyway) are going to stick with *BSD.
You forgot to mention that BSD is dying, and how unfunny most slashdot posts with a "+5, Funny" actually are.
In retrospect, it really was my fault. Some of the Notes developers were really into sneaking up on me with Nerf guns, and after a few weeks it really got old. So I decided on revenge.
One Friday I came in late with a borrowed automatic paintball gun capable of shooting almost 200 rounds and full camoflage. I opened up on the whole office, learned that paintball paint doesn't wash off as easily as advertised, and that the "fun office environment" wasn't nearly as fun as I thought it was.
Once HR caught wind of it, I was told not to return on Monday. Although I was pretty regretful at the time, I look back on it (now that I'm employed again) as well worth it.