(Originally posted on the poll, but this story seemed more appropriate...:) )
10. Tommy didn't need Linux. Why should I? 9. My g-g-generation won't get fooled again (by Bill Gates, that is). 8. Pete's been rocking us for 30 years. Linux for only 6. 7. Linux hasn't been ported to Momma's Squeezebox. 6. Tux the Penquin? Nah. Boris the Spider! 5. Quadophenia fits on 2 CDs. Red Hat uses 3. 4. When "The Who Sells Out", everyone laughs. When Red Hat sells out, we're gonna cry. 3. Teenage Wasteland? Try Playstation, not Linux. 2. Pete Townshend's arm swing kicks the ass of Bob Young's hat any day of the week.
And the number 1 reason Pete Townshend beats the hell out of Linux: 1. Best of The Who: $8.98. Best of Red Hat: $79.95.
There were several services like this in the early days of the Internet... and they worked, too! Jack Rickard had an open invitation to let people pay for their Boardwatch Subscriptions using one of the email-money-transfer services.
I can't find the column on their online version; must have been pre-1995 (back when it there actually was BOARD in boardwatch, instead of this "internet" stuff...:P )
After my two year stint in tech support (eeggh), there certainly are a LOT more things that lusers call hard drives...
11. AT Chassis = hard drive 12. expansion slot = hard drive (as in "my modem doesn't have lights... it's installed in the hard drive") 13. CPU = hard drive ("My hard drive says 'intel inside'.")
and so on and so forth. I think we can blame first grade classes that taught the three parts of the computer... And all along I though the *processor* was important. Silly me.
Of course. If you were a software developer, would you want to support distributions X, Y, and Z that you've never even heard of? Quick: what patchlevel is glibc at in the latest release of Mandrake?
Sure, it RUNS on other linuces, as well as more mainstream ones like slackware and SuSE, but they're saving their own asses by saying "RedHat".
I have to disagree. My NT box can get quite moody and crash up to three times a day. I know exactly why, but I just deal with it. The problem is sketchy hardware with even more sketchy drivers. If you want to see a BSOD every few hours, get the most generic A3D Vortex soundcard you can find. Then, get a G200 and Rainbow Runner and install the latest drivers that support the Rainbow Runner. And maybe throw in a realtek 8139-based NIC. You're dead in the water. I'll start up winquake and crash somewhere between three and fifteen minutes in to a game. Reboot into Linux and play for hours.
Sure, a brand new Dell Precision or Poweredge may be rock solid under NT, but "real world" PCs aren't.
I love the first three movies, and I love TPM. I consider myself a really big fan, seen the old ones at least a hundred times each, blah blah blah.
But why is everyone arguing about these movies and making such a stink about them? It just goes to show we're taking the whole thing too seriously, which is why people associate honest, caring Star Wars fans with Trekkies who don Spock ears and head to weekly comic conventions. They're *fun* movies, but they're not meant to be a religion, or even intended to be *good* movies. And let's face it: they're not! They're extensions of old serials that were adventures in space, not Classical epics. Sure, Star Wars has turned into a contemporary epic, but we shouldn't treat it with the same respect we do works that lasted thousands of years. It's just not worth it. It's a movie for crying out loud.
Most universities (especially major ones) have clauses in your acceptance paperwork (or whatever) that anything you create, contribute to, etc, while a student/intern/graduate/professor is owned by the university. So I guess they could go and do whatever they want with the tapes.
Partway there, but that's only 4MB, right? Or something thereabouts. Good for moving your pr0n from one computer to another, but you can't exactly install windows on it. (Well, anything since Windows v2, anyway)
I'd grab the tarball and compile. The older (Vader/Luke) lightsabers use libc5. The new ones (Quigon/Maul) are glibc based. They have completely incompatible screw types, among other things. Since it's only the new ones that need the upgrade, I guess it's proof that the old ones are better. Slackware all the way, baby.
AND less power, less heat. Plus they'll probably last longer, so total CoO will be cheaper...
Well, "for comparable speed" there's less heat. Yeah, billy's overclocked 650Mhz celeron generates some heat, but to match a 10K rpm drive, we won't need something that burns holes in steel.
It's a shame that so many parts of PCs are still made with mechanical parts. And in my experience, those are the ones that fail. The hard drive, floppy drive, plethora of fans, and removable storage of all kinds. And these are all the technologies that "slow us down" on the path to Uber-computerdom. What we need is standardized, solid-state memory devices. Two kinds: a fast one that can be assembled into huge storage devices, and a cheap one that can be used to transfer data between machines. Forget floppies, CDs, Zip disks, and hard drives. We'll have the storage catch up with the memory, cpu, and system bus.
The questions of course are: reliability, performance, and durability. Even using old 30-pin simms in huge arrays attached to a constant power source would probably be faster (overall, not bursting, unless there was a really nice cache on there) than =5400rpm drives, but how long is that going to last? And if you build a twenty-meg portable "disk" out of this, what happens when you drop it on the floor?
Oh well. I think I'll go drool about that atlas 10K now...:)
It's not that SCSI is expensive, it's that IDE is disgustingly cheap since Intel decided to stick it in their chipsets. If they had picked SCSI as the interface-of-choice, we'd all be packing UW storage now, and there'd be people evangelizing about some other format, say Firewire.
Of course, (as mentioned elsewhere on this thread) the point is the actual storage speed, not the interface speed.
They don't come with batteries, unfortunately. And they can suck the batteries you DO get dry real fast if you live anywhere near friends with lightsabers. Until they break.
Wow! I'll be able to install something in my lightsaber. I get closer to being a Jedi every day.
Maybe when I'm ready I can make my own. I want a yellow blade. Or a white one. Enough green, blue, and red crap. Additive colors just don't do it these days.
A "cable modem" *is* a modem. Your computer speaks digital, the cable network is analog. It's at least DE-modulating, depending on what kind of connection you have. So I guess some people have "cable modems", the others just have "cable dems".
"Understanding Digital Technology" is what I learned in the first two years of EE, all reduced to about four pages of text. Go figure.
If "How Stuff Works" and the LDP got together, it would be the world's greatest collection of Information... they could hold small countries for ransom.
The promo material says that this thing ships with a USB keyboard and a USB mouse. How do they get them to work under NT? Anyone have one of these boxen?
Overall, they're pretty sexy as PCs go, but nothing like other sgi boxes.:)
This day in age, technical people in technical jobs are more like actors working in movies than the old-fashioned "start at a company, retire in thirty years" mentaility. What we need are agents who take care of finding jobs FOR us!
Imagine working on a large programming assignment, or a network install, and you realize it's almost done. What do you do next? Probably administer the network or maintain the source. Something you may or may not want to do. At this point, call your agent and say "Hey, I'm ready for the next job, what do you have lined up for me?"
Meanwhile, someone else will call their agent and say "okay, I feel like administering a network for a while or bugfixing code, do you see any openings?" Fwoomp! They'll move in and pick up where you left off in a job they like, while you'll get to move on to a job you want to do. Everyone's skill level is satisfied, and the employers get the stuff they need done.
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(Originally posted on the poll, but this story seemed more appropriate... :) )
10. Tommy didn't need Linux. Why should I?
9. My g-g-generation won't get fooled again (by Bill Gates, that is).
8. Pete's been rocking us for 30 years. Linux for only 6.
7. Linux hasn't been ported to Momma's Squeezebox.
6. Tux the Penquin? Nah. Boris the Spider!
5. Quadophenia fits on 2 CDs. Red Hat uses 3.
4. When "The Who Sells Out", everyone laughs. When Red Hat sells out, we're gonna cry.
3. Teenage Wasteland? Try Playstation, not Linux.
2. Pete Townshend's arm swing kicks the ass of Bob Young's hat any day of the week.
And the number 1 reason Pete Townshend beats the hell out of Linux:
1. Best of The Who: $8.98. Best of Red Hat: $79.95.
-Chris
There were several services like this in the early days of the Internet... and they worked, too! Jack Rickard had an open invitation to let people pay for their Boardwatch Subscriptions using one of the email-money-transfer services.
:P )
I can't find the column on their online version; must have been pre-1995 (back when it there actually was BOARD in boardwatch, instead of this "internet" stuff...
-Chris
After my two year stint in tech support (eeggh), there certainly are a LOT more things that lusers call hard drives...
11. AT Chassis = hard drive
12. expansion slot = hard drive
(as in "my modem doesn't have lights... it's installed in the hard drive")
13. CPU = hard drive
("My hard drive says 'intel inside'.")
and so on and so forth. I think we can blame first grade classes that taught the three parts of the computer... And all along I though the *processor* was important. Silly me.
-Chris
for RedHat?
Of course. If you were a software developer, would you want to support distributions X, Y, and Z that you've never even heard of? Quick: what patchlevel is glibc at in the latest release of Mandrake?
Sure, it RUNS on other linuces, as well as more mainstream ones like slackware and SuSE, but they're saving their own asses by saying "RedHat".
-Chris
I have to disagree. My NT box can get quite moody and crash up to three times a day. I know exactly why, but I just deal with it. The problem is sketchy hardware with even more sketchy drivers. If you want to see a BSOD every few hours, get the most generic A3D Vortex soundcard you can find. Then, get a G200 and Rainbow Runner and install the latest drivers that support the Rainbow Runner. And maybe throw in a realtek 8139-based NIC. You're dead in the water.
I'll start up winquake and crash somewhere between three and fifteen minutes in to a game. Reboot into Linux and play for hours.
Sure, a brand new Dell Precision or Poweredge may be rock solid under NT, but "real world" PCs aren't.
-Chris
I love the first three movies, and I love TPM. I consider myself a really big fan, seen the old ones at least a hundred times each, blah blah blah.
But why is everyone arguing about these movies and making such a stink about them? It just goes to show we're taking the whole thing too seriously, which is why people associate honest, caring Star Wars fans with Trekkies who don Spock ears and head to weekly comic conventions. They're *fun* movies, but they're not meant to be a religion, or even intended to be *good* movies. And let's face it: they're not! They're extensions of old serials that were adventures in space, not Classical epics. Sure, Star Wars has turned into a contemporary epic, but we shouldn't treat it with the same respect we do works that lasted thousands of years. It's just not worth it. It's a movie for crying out loud.
-Chris
And what's its keyrate? :)
-Chris
Most universities (especially major ones) have clauses in your acceptance paperwork (or whatever) that anything you create, contribute to, etc, while a student/intern/graduate/professor is owned by the university. So I guess they could go and do whatever they want with the tapes.
-Chris
*and* get moderated up for it, no less. :)
-Chris
Partway there, but that's only 4MB, right? Or something thereabouts. Good for moving your pr0n from one computer to another, but you can't exactly install windows on it. (Well, anything since Windows v2, anyway)
-Chris
I'd grab the tarball and compile. The older (Vader/Luke) lightsabers use libc5. The new ones (Quigon/Maul) are glibc based. They have completely incompatible screw types, among other things. Since it's only the new ones that need the upgrade, I guess it's proof that the old ones are better. Slackware all the way, baby.
-Chris
AND less power, less heat. Plus they'll probably last longer, so total CoO will be cheaper...
Well, "for comparable speed" there's less heat. Yeah, billy's overclocked 650Mhz celeron generates some heat, but to match a 10K rpm drive, we won't need something that burns holes in steel.
-Chris
It's a shame that so many parts of PCs are still made with mechanical parts. And in my experience, those are the ones that fail. The hard drive, floppy drive, plethora of fans, and removable storage of all kinds. And these are all the technologies that "slow us down" on the path to Uber-computerdom. What we need is standardized, solid-state memory devices. Two kinds: a fast one that can be assembled into huge storage devices, and a cheap one that can be used to transfer data between machines. Forget floppies, CDs, Zip disks, and hard drives. We'll have the storage catch up with the memory, cpu, and system bus.
:)
The questions of course are: reliability, performance, and durability. Even using old 30-pin simms in huge arrays attached to a constant power source would probably be faster (overall, not bursting, unless there was a really nice cache on there) than =5400rpm drives, but how long is that going to last? And if you build a twenty-meg portable "disk" out of this, what happens when you drop it on the floor?
Oh well. I think I'll go drool about that atlas 10K now...
-Chris
It's not that SCSI is expensive, it's that IDE is disgustingly cheap since Intel decided to stick it in their chipsets. If they had picked SCSI as the interface-of-choice, we'd all be packing UW storage now, and there'd be people evangelizing about some other format, say Firewire.
Of course, (as mentioned elsewhere on this thread) the point is the actual storage speed, not the interface speed.
-Chris
http://www.m-sys.com
SCSI, IDE, and ISA cards. Yay.
-Chris
They don't come with batteries, unfortunately. And they can suck the batteries you DO get dry real fast if you live anywhere near friends with lightsabers. Until they break.
:)
Anyone have a Luke saber blade to sell?
-Chris
Wow! I'll be able to install something in my lightsaber. I get closer to being a Jedi every day.
Maybe when I'm ready I can make my own. I want a yellow blade. Or a white one. Enough green, blue, and red crap. Additive colors just don't do it these days.
-Chris
Wow, I wish i could afford a solid-state disk like you can.
-Chris
A "cable modem" *is* a modem. Your computer speaks digital, the cable network is analog. It's at least DE-modulating, depending on what kind of connection you have. So I guess some people have "cable modems", the others just have "cable dems".
-Chris
"Mom! Tell Billy to stop playing Quake! I'm trying to talk to my boyfriend, but there's not enough bandwidth!"
What ever will we do? Have to find a place to get rid of our sisters...
-Chris
Okay, so I learned how to solder, too. What do you expect from a school that's only 14th in US News? Sheesh.
:>
-Chris
Sounds like incentive to help the Linux USB guy to me... :)
-Chris
"Understanding Digital Technology" is what I learned in the first two years of EE, all reduced to about four pages of text. Go figure.
If "How Stuff Works" and the LDP got together, it would be the world's greatest collection of Information... they could hold small countries for ransom.
-Chris
The promo material says that this thing ships with a USB keyboard and a USB mouse. How do they get them to work under NT? Anyone have one of these boxen?
:)
Overall, they're pretty sexy as PCs go, but nothing like other sgi boxes.
-Chris
This day in age, technical people in technical jobs are more like actors working in movies than the old-fashioned "start at a company, retire in thirty years" mentaility. What we need are agents who take care of finding jobs FOR us!
Imagine working on a large programming assignment, or a network install, and you realize it's almost done. What do you do next? Probably administer the network or maintain the source. Something you may or may not want to do. At this point, call your agent and say "Hey, I'm ready for the next job, what do you have lined up for me?"
Meanwhile, someone else will call their agent and say "okay, I feel like administering a network for a while or bugfixing code, do you see any openings?" Fwoomp! They'll move in and pick up where you left off in a job they like, while you'll get to move on to a job you want to do. Everyone's skill level is satisfied, and the employers get the stuff they need done.
-Chris