Check out Courtney Love. I think she mentioned that most artists get about $.05 per album. And that is before they have to pay back any expenses. Most artists are lucky to break even on cd sales. And this is not even taking into account funny accounting tricks that the Labels play.
MBNA works fine in Mozilla. For a couple of months, they redid thier online bill pay and it would reject Moz but Netscape 6/7 would work fine. This is actually kinda ironic as I have The Linux Fund bank card. This past month Mozilla started working again.
Assuming $.21 kWhr, 8 hour usage, for every day and that is savings of $183.96 per year. Even if usage patterns returned a savings of hlaf of that and it will more than pay for the LCD panel in a few years.
Most CRT Monitors are probably closer to 150W-200W but still...
I recently did a clean install of MDK 10 on my notebook. I don't have exact times, but it was less than an hour because I started it when I started watching Buffy, the install finished before the end of Buffy. And it probably would have been shorter but I waited till commercials to change discs. And I also had full Office suites and Graphics editors instead of just a text editor and bitmap editor. I was able to network print and ssh into my desktop after the install. (I am rather lazy and for the rare files I transfer between the systems, I just use scp).
While I could compile a LFS system, I find Mandrake just works. Maybe you should try a different distro. I can understand taking two days for say Gentoo where you have to compile everything yourself. Most everything else should just work. A few devices might require you to compile the drivers, but that is usaully on the order fo minutes. You can compile a whole kernel in twenty minutes.
Well, advanced users are resistant, becuase they hate feeling like newbs.
I remember my transition from Linxu newb to an intermediate user. It was the day I finally groked the "everything is a file" concept. After that, the filesystem made sense. One does not need that deep an understanding to use the system, but it will frustrate the more technically inclined users. Beginners are willing to accept that "that is just the way things are".
About the same as del *.*/y It deletes everything in the current directory downwards without interaction. A Ctrl-c may halt it part way through, but usually means there is still important stuff lost. It is one of those things that everyone seems to have done once.
Tricking someone else to do it is about the same as tricking someone to format c:\.
A lot of cheapo IDE raid controllers would fail at rebuilding a RAID 10 or 0+1 array.
Also what I didn't fully explain originally was factoring different tech. With some form of RAID 1 (or 10 or 0+1), most likely it would be a cheapo IDE controller with cheap IDE drives. For RAID 5 it was assumed it be the better quality SCSI controller and drives. It was also assumed that no available spares would be around for RAID 1 so it would be about a week before a replacement was on hhand to put back into the array. I would presume that for RAID 5 that a replacement drive would be on hand.
Increasing the number of drives increases the likelyhood of any given drive failing. IDE drives will have a higher failure rate than SCSI. given all this, RAID 5 is better.
(I was also in my mind thinking of RAID 6, but...)
Raid 1 if properly implemented will result in up 2x throughput speeds. The write speed should be almost as fast as a single drive.
Raid 1 has the cheapest setup cost but the worst economy. The storage of raid 1 is limted to the smallest storage capacity of a single drive. One can use different sized drives in most raid 1 arrays, and if done using software, one can even use the leftover space on the larger drives.
Raid 5 gets better economy with the more drives in the array. The storage is N-1 meaning N is the total storage minus the storage of a single drive.
Raid 10 or 0+1 requires only 4 disks. But I think raid 1 with some other source of backup is good.
For a personal file server, ATA or SATA would be fine. Even a software solution should work, but hardware is usually better. I am told Windows can setup software raids and I know Linux can do it. Ars Technica recently had an Article where they setup software Raid on a Mac with some USB drives so apparently it can do it as well. (I have seen some benchmarks of some hardware that was truly atrocious.)
Raid 10 or 0+1(they are subtly different in how the mirroring and striping happen) only garuntees redundacy if a single drive fails. If more than one drive fails, the whole array can be lost, depending on what stripe set goes. This form of Raid is a combo of both 0 and 1.
Raid 0 often does not have the speed benefits it should have based on theory.
Raid 1 is basically doing a continous ghost backup of a drive to another drive with the benefit of getting faster reads. It is my recommendation, particularly if the setup is using cheap IDE or SATA drives.
And many cheap raid controllers do not implement raid 0 well so there is not a double speed boost. In a few benchmarks, Raid 0 was outperformed by both Raid 1 and single drives.
Most raid 10 solutions don't give a spead boost, and are much more vulnerable than you would first believe. If any two drives fail in the array, 1/2 of the time the array is toast. Some of the cheaper raid hardware may not even allow rebuilding one drivein a raid 10.
Pretty much the solution is Raid 1 or Raid 5. Besides on most raid controllers, Raid 1 is faster read throughput than a single drive, though writing does take a bit of a performance hit. Raid 5 is expensive, while most any Raid controller can do decent Raid 1.
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Multiple cards/chipsets. It has been well recognized by many. Microsoft says it is a feature not a bug.
Verbal contracts are enforcable, which is all a promise really is.
In this case the Plaintiff's lawyer was a real moron. He should have been arguing for the cost of tickets booked for damages and then argued for further penalties. He should have also named the Government as a defendant for even asking for the information in the first place.
To a certain degree, they are invalid. Most disclaimers are not worth the paper they are printed on. Just like often you will have more rights than what is specified in a Limited Warranty. Check your Federal and State Statutes. Currently the Law trumps any Corporate bs.
For instance for the Contract for the Eye Doctor visit, it helps protect the Doctor but does not absolve him of all responsibility. If you are an idiot and stare into a 1000W bulb and burn out your retinas after recieving dilation drops, then that is your own fault. If the eye Doctor burns out your retinas after dilating your eyes by shining a light to long, then he is at fault.
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The problem with the Zero Config service is a known issue. If your card has its own config util and you disable the zero config util, there is no problem. If you connect with the zero config and then disable zero config, there will be no problem. The zero config has a bug that will drop connections.
If you check through the driver updates for any sony vaio model you will see that there are driver updates for any version of Windows that supports the minimum specifications on the machine. Now you need to foolw thier upgrade guidelines exactly. Mostly it means that Windows needs to be installed to c:/windows so no dual boots or installs to winnt.
Also, it is not the OEM's responsibility to get your third party software to work. I've worked in tech support and you get people calling you to support thier 5 year old printers or help them install MS Office, install drivers for thier new video card.
BTW, as for repairs, it depends. I had a Sony notebook break a year out of warranty. There was a key fell off the keyboard, the dvdrom was no longer reading dvds, and the hard was getting a smartdrive failure. The whole repair was $249 plus tax. Now, before this, I had checked and just the keyboard was $249 if I sent in the notebook. So the flate rate repair can be great or not dpending on therepairs needed. And as for parts for desktops, why wouldn't you use just standard desktop parts? Anything besides the mainboard (which is always expensive), is just off the shelf parts. And Vaio has those door flaps so you don't need to worry about aesthetics of beige clashing with purple.
I have also found that Sony uses standard chipsets. Sure the modems are winmodems, but then who doesn't use winmodems anymore? Everything else seems to work out of the box for Linux.
Basicaly, Experienced Linux users sit a complete noob down and watch what they do.
Imagine sitting your mother/girlfriend/neighbor down at your Linux box then record what she does to get online. Maybe she has trouble navigating the menus. Maybe there is problem just logging in. Is there any problems using the broser itself? Which web browser was chosen?
There are more complex tasks like setting up the computer for internet access. Also one can see how well they can handle finding and reading existing documentation.
After all this documentation is collected, then the community can design better interfaces and write better documentation.
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It is the result of a severely obfuscated binary format. I have heard that part of the format is a memory dump of Word.
Check out Courtney Love. I think she mentioned that most artists get about $.05 per album. And that is before they have to pay back any expenses. Most artists are lucky to break even on cd sales. And this is not even taking into account funny accounting tricks that the Labels play.
MBNA works fine in Mozilla. For a couple of months, they redid thier online bill pay and it would reject Moz but Netscape 6/7 would work fine. This is actually kinda ironic as I have The Linux Fund bank card. This past month Mozilla started working again.
Assuming $.21 kWhr, 8 hour usage, for every day and that is savings of $183.96 per year. Even if usage patterns returned a savings of hlaf of that and it will more than pay for the LCD panel in a few years.
Most CRT Monitors are probably closer to 150W-200W but still...
Except that LCDs use less Watts than a CRT.
I recently did a clean install of MDK 10 on my notebook. I don't have exact times, but it was less than an hour because I started it when I started watching Buffy, the install finished before the end of Buffy. And it probably would have been shorter but I waited till commercials to change discs. And I also had full Office suites and Graphics editors instead of just a text editor and bitmap editor. I was able to network print and ssh into my desktop after the install. (I am rather lazy and for the rare files I transfer between the systems, I just use scp).
While I could compile a LFS system, I find Mandrake just works. Maybe you should try a different distro. I can understand taking two days for say Gentoo where you have to compile everything yourself. Most everything else should just work. A few devices might require you to compile the drivers, but that is usaully on the order fo minutes. You can compile a whole kernel in twenty minutes.
Actually if you care about how it looks, one would use Lyx or LaTex. And, yes, there is a bit of a learning curve there.
Well, advanced users are resistant, becuase they hate feeling like newbs.
I remember my transition from Linxu newb to an intermediate user. It was the day I finally groked the "everything is a file" concept. After that, the filesystem made sense. One does not need that deep an understanding to use the system, but it will frustrate the more technically inclined users. Beginners are willing to accept that "that is just the way things are".
About the same as del *.* /y
It deletes everything in the current directory downwards without interaction. A Ctrl-c may halt it part way through, but usually means there is still important stuff lost. It is one of those things that everyone seems to have done once.
Tricking someone else to do it is about the same as tricking someone to format c:\.
A lot of cheapo IDE raid controllers would fail at rebuilding a RAID 10 or 0+1 array.
Also what I didn't fully explain originally was factoring different tech. With some form of RAID 1 (or 10 or 0+1), most likely it would be a cheapo IDE controller with cheap IDE drives. For RAID 5 it was assumed it be the better quality SCSI controller and drives. It was also assumed that no available spares would be around for RAID 1 so it would be about a week before a replacement was on hhand to put back into the array. I would presume that for RAID 5 that a replacement drive would be on hand.
Increasing the number of drives increases the likelyhood of any given drive failing. IDE drives will have a higher failure rate than SCSI. given all this, RAID 5 is better.
(I was also in my mind thinking of RAID 6, but...)
Raid 1 if properly implemented will result in up 2x throughput speeds. The write speed should be almost as fast as a single drive.
Raid 1 has the cheapest setup cost but the worst economy. The storage of raid 1 is limted to the smallest storage capacity of a single drive. One can use different sized drives in most raid 1 arrays, and if done using software, one can even use the leftover space on the larger drives.
Raid 5 gets better economy with the more drives in the array. The storage is N-1 meaning N is the total storage minus the storage of a single drive.
Raid 10 or 0+1 requires only 4 disks. But I think raid 1 with some other source of backup is good.
For a personal file server, ATA or SATA would be fine. Even a software solution should work, but hardware is usually better. I am told Windows can setup software raids and I know Linux can do it. Ars Technica recently had an Article where they setup software Raid on a Mac with some USB drives so apparently it can do it as well. (I have seen some benchmarks of some hardware that was truly atrocious.)
google search
Seems to give plenty links to answer the question. First hit is a comparison between the two.
Raid 10 or 0+1(they are subtly different in how the mirroring and striping happen) only garuntees redundacy if a single drive fails. If more than one drive fails, the whole array can be lost, depending on what stripe set goes. This form of Raid is a combo of both 0 and 1.
Raid 0 often does not have the speed benefits it should have based on theory.
Raid 1 is basically doing a continous ghost backup of a drive to another drive with the benefit of getting faster reads. It is my recommendation, particularly if the setup is using cheap IDE or SATA drives.
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And many cheap raid controllers do not implement raid 0 well so there is not a double speed boost. In a few benchmarks, Raid 0 was outperformed by both Raid 1 and single drives.
Most raid 10 solutions don't give a spead boost, and are much more vulnerable than you would first believe. If any two drives fail in the array, 1/2 of the time the array is toast. Some of the cheaper raid hardware may not even allow rebuilding one drivein a raid 10.
Pretty much the solution is Raid 1 or Raid 5. Besides on most raid controllers, Raid 1 is faster read throughput than a single drive, though writing does take a bit of a performance hit. Raid 5 is expensive, while most any Raid controller can do decent Raid 1.
Multiple cards/chipsets. It has been well recognized by many. Microsoft says it is a feature not a bug.
Yes, it is clear cut.
Verbal contracts are enforcable, which is all a promise really is.
In this case the Plaintiff's lawyer was a real moron. He should have been arguing for the cost of tickets booked for damages and then argued for further penalties. He should have also named the Government as a defendant for even asking for the information in the first place.
To a certain degree, they are invalid. Most disclaimers are not worth the paper they are printed on. Just like often you will have more rights than what is specified in a Limited Warranty. Check your Federal and State Statutes. Currently the Law trumps any Corporate bs.
For instance for the Contract for the Eye Doctor visit, it helps protect the Doctor but does not absolve him of all responsibility. If you are an idiot and stare into a 1000W bulb and burn out your retinas after recieving dilation drops, then that is your own fault. If the eye Doctor burns out your retinas after dilating your eyes by shining a light to long, then he is at fault.
The problem with the Zero Config service is a known issue. If your card has its own config util and you disable the zero config util, there is no problem. If you connect with the zero config and then disable zero config, there will be no problem. The zero config has a bug that will drop connections.
If you check through the driver updates for any sony vaio model you will see that there are driver updates for any version of Windows that supports the minimum specifications on the machine. Now you need to foolw thier upgrade guidelines exactly. Mostly it means that Windows needs to be installed to c:/windows so no dual boots or installs to winnt.
Also, it is not the OEM's responsibility to get your third party software to work. I've worked in tech support and you get people calling you to support thier 5 year old printers or help them install MS Office, install drivers for thier new video card.
BTW, as for repairs, it depends. I had a Sony notebook break a year out of warranty. There was a key fell off the keyboard, the dvdrom was no longer reading dvds, and the hard was getting a smartdrive failure. The whole repair was $249 plus tax. Now, before this, I had checked and just the keyboard was $249 if I sent in the notebook. So the flate rate repair can be great or not dpending on therepairs needed. And as for parts for desktops, why wouldn't you use just standard desktop parts? Anything besides the mainboard (which is always expensive), is just off the shelf parts. And Vaio has those door flaps so you don't need to worry about aesthetics of beige clashing with purple.
I have also found that Sony uses standard chipsets. Sure the modems are winmodems, but then who doesn't use winmodems anymore? Everything else seems to work out of the box for Linux.
It is probably a matter of your IT dept locking down the computer and not letting you install stuff.
Nope. RTFA.
Basicaly, Experienced Linux users sit a complete noob down and watch what they do.
Imagine sitting your mother/girlfriend/neighbor down at your Linux box then record what she does to get online. Maybe she has trouble navigating the menus. Maybe there is problem just logging in. Is there any problems using the broser itself? Which web browser was chosen?
There are more complex tasks like setting up the computer for internet access. Also one can see how well they can handle finding and reading existing documentation.
After all this documentation is collected, then the community can design better interfaces and write better documentation.
Similiar to b, but that DVDs look better than VHS. VHS looks like regular broadcast TV. DVD's have better visual quality.
Not all, just most. The SL10 used AAA. The NZ90 had a replaceable battery pack. I think a couple of others had a replaceable battery pack.