They're all selling hardware from the same two companies, practically... Remember how Samsung fucked Dell because it could?
How many articles have there been explaining that practically every company is buying cases from the same couple of companies. That's not choice, that's different faces on the same thing.
It absolutely was. We used to have monopoly protection. When one company buys all the rest, competition goes WAY down. In an oligopoly, even, there is almost tacit agreement between corporations. As long as they all fuck everyone at the same time, they all reap the benefits.
I find that an unfortunate part of blogging if you mention what you did today and make it public (which yes, not everyone may be interested in, but down the line maybe I will be... so there's no need to jump down my throat about that which I'm sure some folks will) is that people who previously had to talk to you in order to find out what was new no longer need to. I guess one could say if it really mattered, they would find a way, but with people busy and living far apart, sometimes the effort isn't made. I guess it could go either way... help to keep better in touch or cause you to fall out of touch.
LiveJournal is pretty cheap and has some deals every once in awhile... I got myself a permanent account for a lot less than several years would have cost. Generally, they compensate for even the smallest outages though -- many of which I didn't notice.
I think soap bubbles fall into the yoyo category... that's got to be a huge moneymaker (as was mentioned I guess in the color bubble article), and they've been around for AGES.
Lots of great free toys that aren't on this list though.
Microsoft is not the first to do this... everyone is looking to increase their number of jobs in India... but not very many of them mention why they don't have to buy any new desks or chairs to make that possible.
I recently ran into a lot of trouble with RHEL. I have an application to migrate from a machine running Solaris 8 to a machine that was running RHEL3. I figured that was plenty current. Come to find that RHEL3 only includes MySQL v3. What? I dragged my feet upgrading to MySQL 4.0, and finally did so probably about a year ago... I looked just now and see that MySQL 4.0 was dubbed production in March of '03. RHEL3 was released in October of that year. They couldn't find the time in that 6 months to get MySQL 4.0 in there? I tried using more recent RPM's -- they have more recent dependencies as well. Why not use RPM's from MySQL? Then you have to compile stuff like PHP and the rest for yourself, if what you had in mind is a LAMP system. There is really no need for all of these RPM's to be so ridiculously picky about version numbers... but since they are, you're really going to be wasting a lot of time if the base distro doesn't come with something even relatively recent.
Sure, I could compile all this stuff myself... but isn't manageability supposed to be part of the benefit of packages? If I do install any of the LAMP components from source, any future RPM's will claim that I don't have the proper deps installed and I will have to either install the old useless versions anyway and just not use them, or force the new RPM's in, meaning that I have a kludged package tree.
I understand this is done in the interest of stability, but as someone who works for a university working on production systems, I don't have that much of an opportunity to upgrade -- we're understaffed and often do not have redundant equipment, so major upgrades require downtime. As such, I'm often behind the upgrade curve and am running software that is nearing the end of its life cycle. It's really surprising to me to find that my OS is another year behind me. I would expect this from HP or even from Debian... but Debian has had no release in a long time, and they support both 4.0 and 4.1 of MySQL.
I have this kind of luck too. I've had trouble with Mandrake, Debian, and RedHat. HOWEVER, I've always had the most trouble with RedHat-based releases. The installer for the RedHat-based distros seems to dislike my machines for whatever reason.
...and Solaris Nevada, the current testing release, is expected at Sun to be called Solaris 11. Sun Studio's compiler suite, which appeared first, is currently at v11.
It takes a LOT more than a filter to desalinize water. Reverse-osmosis machines deal with forcing water through membrane that is only barely permeable in order to remove the salt. Requires quite a bit of power, not just gravity. Got a tour of a desalinization machine -- pretty interesting stuff, even if that isn't your thing.
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I use it a couple of times a week. Not sure what bombed means.
Anonymous users can no longer create articles... but I suppose you could create an account and then wait awhile and create this entry.
They're all selling hardware from the same two companies, practically... Remember how Samsung fucked Dell because it could?
How many articles have there been explaining that practically every company is buying cases from the same couple of companies. That's not choice, that's different faces on the same thing.
It absolutely was. We used to have monopoly protection. When one company buys all the rest, competition goes WAY down. In an oligopoly, even, there is almost tacit agreement between corporations. As long as they all fuck everyone at the same time, they all reap the benefits.
I had AOhell at one point. I don't recall it having child settings, unless you want your children to have teh pr0n.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aohell
I don't think that rule holds out though... I mean, 2k is frozen at SP4 right, and I don't have much trouble -- works as well as any other MS anyway.
You must be new here.
I find that an unfortunate part of blogging if you mention what you did today and make it public (which yes, not everyone may be interested in, but down the line maybe I will be... so there's no need to jump down my throat about that which I'm sure some folks will) is that people who previously had to talk to you in order to find out what was new no longer need to. I guess one could say if it really mattered, they would find a way, but with people busy and living far apart, sometimes the effort isn't made. I guess it could go either way... help to keep better in touch or cause you to fall out of touch.
LiveJournal is pretty cheap and has some deals every once in awhile... I got myself a permanent account for a lot less than several years would have cost. Generally, they compensate for even the smallest outages though -- many of which I didn't notice.
I think soap bubbles fall into the yoyo category... that's got to be a huge moneymaker (as was mentioned I guess in the color bubble article), and they've been around for AGES.
Lots of great free toys that aren't on this list though.
Plenty of lyrics sites that only contain words, not binaries with music in them, have been sued. Recall the lyrics.ch saga.
FX is the worst offender. I was watching Disclosure once, bad enough, and the fucking Nip/Tuck ad at the bottom of the screen was metal on metal.
...umm, didn't they ALREADY integrate GMail with the groups?
Microsoft is not the first to do this... everyone is looking to increase their number of jobs in India... but not very many of them mention why they don't have to buy any new desks or chairs to make that possible.
Except for the fact that they keep catching the carpet on fire. ;)
I do too... strange indeed.
It's a stupid article, though... there's really no reason to expect that 3 cores would be any less usable than 2 or 4.
Don't want it to get too warm in mom's basement.
So Microsoft.com faced some big problems from running on shitty Windows?
Don't we all! No... wait... some of us don't.
If I'm not mistaken, Google Earth does support OpenGL. Am I wrong? It's been awhile since I used it.
If they don't need MS for anything, maybe they should stop writing so much MS-only software?
I recently ran into a lot of trouble with RHEL. I have an application to migrate from a machine running Solaris 8 to a machine that was running RHEL3. I figured that was plenty current. Come to find that RHEL3 only includes MySQL v3. What? I dragged my feet upgrading to MySQL 4.0, and finally did so probably about a year ago... I looked just now and see that MySQL 4.0 was dubbed production in March of '03. RHEL3 was released in October of that year. They couldn't find the time in that 6 months to get MySQL 4.0 in there? I tried using more recent RPM's -- they have more recent dependencies as well. Why not use RPM's from MySQL? Then you have to compile stuff like PHP and the rest for yourself, if what you had in mind is a LAMP system. There is really no need for all of these RPM's to be so ridiculously picky about version numbers... but since they are, you're really going to be wasting a lot of time if the base distro doesn't come with something even relatively recent.
Sure, I could compile all this stuff myself... but isn't manageability supposed to be part of the benefit of packages? If I do install any of the LAMP components from source, any future RPM's will claim that I don't have the proper deps installed and I will have to either install the old useless versions anyway and just not use them, or force the new RPM's in, meaning that I have a kludged package tree.
I understand this is done in the interest of stability, but as someone who works for a university working on production systems, I don't have that much of an opportunity to upgrade -- we're understaffed and often do not have redundant equipment, so major upgrades require downtime. As such, I'm often behind the upgrade curve and am running software that is nearing the end of its life cycle. It's really surprising to me to find that my OS is another year behind me. I would expect this from HP or even from Debian... but Debian has had no release in a long time, and they support both 4.0 and 4.1 of MySQL.
I have this kind of luck too. I've had trouble with Mandrake, Debian, and RedHat. HOWEVER, I've always had the most trouble with RedHat-based releases. The installer for the RedHat-based distros seems to dislike my machines for whatever reason.
...and Solaris Nevada, the current testing release, is expected at Sun to be called Solaris 11. Sun Studio's compiler suite, which appeared first, is currently at v11.
And remember, 11 is one louder.
Not 3.11?
It takes a LOT more than a filter to desalinize water. Reverse-osmosis machines deal with forcing water through membrane that is only barely permeable in order to remove the salt. Requires quite a bit of power, not just gravity. Got a tour of a desalinization machine -- pretty interesting stuff, even if that isn't your thing.