I am a former owner of 2 Toshibas and I have to say that list is full of crap. I worked in a pc shop too and Toshibas always had the most issues with HP second.
Gadhafi has zero control or forces in the eastern half of the country. Not even mail or garbage men.
Ohio is still run by the US.
Eastern Libyans selected people to do mail, collect garbage, keep lights on, etc. Sure some of them are lawyers and average citizens who volunteered but they are running it like a country. They have their own army/police now as well and even a diplomat in the UN who defected. In essence Eastern Libya is becoming its own nation and will hopefully take over the rest of it as a unified free Libya soon.
It is a revolution. The people protested. Gadhafi sent troops to kill them. Unlike Egypt there was nothing else they could do but fight back with force.
They want democracy so the next time an unpopular leader is around they can vote him or her out instead of taking the streets with weapons.
To me it is hypocritical for the US to stand for freedom and then turn around and be agaisn't the protestors because of what happened in Iran *might* happen elsewhere.
I believe through elections and freedom the muslim part of the world will modernize and integrate more with the west. They will realize they no longer have to be victim to extremists. I believe this will be the biggest blow to Al-Quada as many poor Arabs no longer feel strapping a bomb to themselves for a cruel organization as the only way to hope for their people. Infact, the populace does not want a muslim theocracy as they just escaped a nationalist on in Egypt and in other areas. My guess is these countries will be muslim and modern ala Turkey. I can handle that. Maybe the new Libyan government can hire native Libyans to run the oil and gas fields to help the population achieve the middle class rather than hire foreignors.
I read Al Jazeera as CNN and MSNBC has mixed coverage. Many hear are agaisn't that story because of the blog's credibility, so here is one that is credible. As an American I feel we can't get involved as it would rally the Gadhafi loyalists and people agaisnt the great satan the US and would backfire. But I do support the revolution. I just wished there was no bloodshed and it was a more peaceful revolution like Egypt.
It's strength is in the computer room and many.com websites.
Redhat made Linux popular. In the server room, it is a different story than a bunch of hobbyists and computer science students fiddling around on their laptops with Ubuntu.
Redhat Enterprise is HUGE for business critical server apps. Debian is there too but not as big. Business users need support and well tested QA. Sure many slashdoters have bad memories of RPMs (myself included) but Yum takes care of the problems today. Infact Yum and RPMS are more robust and professional than apt-get and deb files as a bad installation on a debian based system will leave changed config files and other files scattered across a system. An RPM wont do that which is important for business users as well.
Redhat funds more software than Canonical does including Gnome, Gnu, and Java. If you love your Ubuntu experience you can thank red hat for funding and donating code for major potions of your gui.
One of the things I love about Linux and Unix software is that it is customizable. If you can disable them by default I would like the option to turn the buttons back on. As long as we can turn them back on I do not care. One of the points of using Linux over Windows is I can make the gui, development tool chain, and even the kernel exactly as I want it. It is open and it feels more like mine than Apple's or Microsoft's.
Gnome developers reading this comment should remember what happened to KDE and amorak? They tried the minimalist approach and many hardcore KDE users including myself and even Linus Torvalds eventually switched to Gnome. Take your time please and do not rush it and make sure it is stable after all the features are ironed out. You should not be making decisions like changing the GUI only a month before release! I can only imagine the bugs.
I hope Ubuntu and Fedora have the option to still install gnome 2.32 for those who wish to wait.
If I were the CEO of a carrier or handset maker why would I invest R&D that would enable you *not* to buy the latest phone or another contract? That would cost money and would not return anything of value. Infact I would lose money as you probably just buy another more up to date phone and I could make more money by another contract.
Android can not run accelerated video hardware and does graphics in software as documented in earlier slashdot stories. Then you wouldn't need a dual core or quad core cpu on a phone.
I was thinking of getting one... also pricey too. I do not want the laptop accessory that is $600 for it. A little too silly and smells desperately like an Ipad/netbook wannabe. I can get a non DRM Asus EEE netbook for half the price with Ubuntu.
Apple wont deal with the enterprise because they got burned in the 1980s when Dos killed it out of the office!
Many businesses are buying macbook pros for executives and some are even using mac minis. However, Apple, just isn't interested in the investment because some jerk in the office has to keep his job by showing it was a good thing to buy this activeX IE only CRM package that only runs on Windows XP.
IIS and SQL Server injections were on the rise when Solaris was still king of the internet server market a decade ago. Windows Server back then was not the dominant player yet had most of the backdoors. The reason Windows has more viruses and trojans is due to activeX and shoddy design for IE and Windows. Not because it was the dominant client operating system.
I would mod you up if I had points. I have been refuting this until I am blue in the face.
It has nothing to do with popularity. Fact is in 1999 all you had to do was wrote a few lines of code in C++ to do a delete a partition and put it in an ocx container for activeX and voila! Anyone visiting your site lost their hard drive! Yes security was that bad in the 1990s with Windows.
The problem during this one is it was so severe that many who are making money are still not spending.
For example I have $3,000 sitting in my bank right now. I need a new phone but refuse to pay more than $140. Even at $140 I will have bad anxiety for purchasing it.
For those reading this it does not make any sense. But I was broke, and jobless for years. I am just used to eating top ramen and living broke. My brain is wired to think any spending is bad and dangerous. I may just keep my useless free phone that barely works out of guilt. $100 is a ton of money!
These mindsets are created during depressions more than recessions. This one has qualities of both. Most of the new jobs are minimum wage. Fear is still there as businesses love restructuring and financially engineering jobs that can be done with less and less skills via cheaper workers. The rest go to India.
The question is how do you change the mindset? Without that we are in trouble. However, a good savings rate more help the economy more long term so I do not know.
Low end HPs still use Core 2 Duos. The Mac Mini is no longer even shipping with MacOSX and is now using iOS.
Apple always has newer GPUs and CPUs for the top of the line macbook pro and high end iMacs. It is true after market 3rd parties make the stuff latter but that is because Apple desktops are workstations and are high end business users. They want quadros and not the cheap gaming cards that we use.
The low end is older but that is true for any manufacture. Name any manufacture that has more up to date laptops than Macbook pros?
In 95 people didn't know if Firewire or USB would win. People assumed one or the other at the time. I supported firewire and thought it was a beta vs vhs all over.
My 96 era computer I got for graduation had USB ports. I ran Windows NT and Windows 95 on it. No support for USB whatsoever. It was not until Windows 2k and FreeBSD 3.4 by 1999 could I get my usb keyboard to work. MacOS supported both immediately when it came out.
Apple also was first promoting SCSI. Of course Apple did not win that battle as consumers still flocked to IDE.
Apple does not just include a hardware port. They make sure MacOS or MacOSX supported everything fully unlike pcs.
Solaris ZFS is not as stable either. I do not administer such systems but from what I read many Solaris admins still run UFS on new server builds for this reason.
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Which is why I am probably going to go with Andriod and not an iPhone when I upgrade my phone next week.
Android phones unfortunately are expensive, but in the end the developers will hopefully start sticking with Android and not put up with th*s crap.
I am a former owner of 2 Toshibas and I have to say that list is full of crap. I worked in a pc shop too and Toshibas always had the most issues with HP second.
Gadhafi has zero control or forces in the eastern half of the country. Not even mail or garbage men.
Ohio is still run by the US.
Eastern Libyans selected people to do mail, collect garbage, keep lights on, etc. Sure some of them are lawyers and average citizens who volunteered but they are running it like a country. They have their own army/police now as well and even a diplomat in the UN who defected. In essence Eastern Libya is becoming its own nation and will hopefully take over the rest of it as a unified free Libya soon.
So is North Korea. Your point?
The rebels took half the country!
It is a revolution. The people protested. Gadhafi sent troops to kill them. Unlike Egypt there was nothing else they could do but fight back with force.
They want democracy so the next time an unpopular leader is around they can vote him or her out instead of taking the streets with weapons.
I support the Arab people.
To me it is hypocritical for the US to stand for freedom and then turn around and be agaisn't the protestors because of what happened in Iran *might* happen elsewhere.
I believe through elections and freedom the muslim part of the world will modernize and integrate more with the west. They will realize they no longer have to be victim to extremists. I believe this will be the biggest blow to Al-Quada as many poor Arabs no longer feel strapping a bomb to themselves for a cruel organization as the only way to hope for their people. Infact, the populace does not want a muslim theocracy as they just escaped a nationalist on in Egypt and in other areas. My guess is these countries will be muslim and modern ala Turkey. I can handle that. Maybe the new Libyan government can hire native Libyans to run the oil and gas fields to help the population achieve the middle class rather than hire foreignors.
I read Al Jazeera as CNN and MSNBC has mixed coverage. Many hear are agaisn't that story because of the blog's credibility, so here is one that is credible. As an American I feel we can't get involved as it would rally the Gadhafi loyalists and people agaisnt the great satan the US and would backfire. But I do support the revolution. I just wished there was no bloodshed and it was a more peaceful revolution like Egypt.
I want to know which is the most important editor to use for the most important distro. Vi or emacs?
"As long as you spell my name correctly"
WRONG!!! It is pronounced GNU/Linux. GNU/Debian, GNU/Ubuntu, etc.
Get with the program ... wipes foam from mouth.
It's strength is in the computer room and many .com websites.
Redhat made Linux popular. In the server room, it is a different story than a bunch of hobbyists and computer science students fiddling around on their laptops with Ubuntu.
Redhat Enterprise is HUGE for business critical server apps. Debian is there too but not as big. Business users need support and well tested QA. Sure many slashdoters have bad memories of RPMs (myself included) but Yum takes care of the problems today. Infact Yum and RPMS are more robust and professional than apt-get and deb files as a bad installation on a debian based system will leave changed config files and other files scattered across a system. An RPM wont do that which is important for business users as well.
Redhat funds more software than Canonical does including Gnome, Gnu, and Java. If you love your Ubuntu experience you can thank red hat for funding and donating code for major potions of your gui.
One of the things I love about Linux and Unix software is that it is customizable. If you can disable them by default I would like the option to turn the buttons back on. As long as we can turn them back on I do not care. One of the points of using Linux over Windows is I can make the gui, development tool chain, and even the kernel exactly as I want it. It is open and it feels more like mine than Apple's or Microsoft's.
Gnome developers reading this comment should remember what happened to KDE and amorak? They tried the minimalist approach and many hardcore KDE users including myself and even Linus Torvalds eventually switched to Gnome. Take your time please and do not rush it and make sure it is stable after all the features are ironed out. You should not be making decisions like changing the GUI only a month before release! I can only imagine the bugs.
I hope Ubuntu and Fedora have the option to still install gnome 2.32 for those who wish to wait.
"they are 'hedging', they are 'creating efficiencies', they are 'earning', they are absolute not, in no way, gambling."
Ok what are they producing of value then?
If I were the CEO of a carrier or handset maker why would I invest R&D that would enable you *not* to buy the latest phone or another contract? That would cost money and would not return anything of value. Infact I would lose money as you probably just buy another more up to date phone and I could make more money by another contract.
Oh it is out.
Just buy the newer version of the phone at the local store with the latest upgrade and sign another 2 year contract.
Thanks again
What OS does it run?
Android can not run accelerated video hardware and does graphics in software as documented in earlier slashdot stories. Then you wouldn't need a dual core or quad core cpu on a phone.
I can only imagine the battery life.
I was thinking of getting one ... also pricey too. I do not want the laptop accessory that is $600 for it. A little too silly and smells desperately like an Ipad/netbook wannabe. I can get a non DRM Asus EEE netbook for half the price with Ubuntu.
Apple wont deal with the enterprise because they got burned in the 1980s when Dos killed it out of the office!
Many businesses are buying macbook pros for executives and some are even using mac minis. However, Apple, just isn't interested in the investment because some jerk in the office has to keep his job by showing it was a good thing to buy this activeX IE only CRM package that only runs on Windows XP.
It is a battle they can't win.
True.
IIS and SQL Server injections were on the rise when Solaris was still king of the internet server market a decade ago. Windows Server back then was not the dominant player yet had most of the backdoors. The reason Windows has more viruses and trojans is due to activeX and shoddy design for IE and Windows. Not because it was the dominant client operating system.
I would mod you up if I had points. I have been refuting this until I am blue in the face.
It has nothing to do with popularity. Fact is in 1999 all you had to do was wrote a few lines of code in C++ to do a delete a partition and put it in an ocx container for activeX and voila! Anyone visiting your site lost their hard drive! Yes security was that bad in the 1990s with Windows.
The problem during this one is it was so severe that many who are making money are still not spending.
For example I have $3,000 sitting in my bank right now. I need a new phone but refuse to pay more than $140. Even at $140 I will have bad anxiety for purchasing it.
For those reading this it does not make any sense. But I was broke, and jobless for years. I am just used to eating top ramen and living broke. My brain is wired to think any spending is bad and dangerous. I may just keep my useless free phone that barely works out of guilt. $100 is a ton of money!
These mindsets are created during depressions more than recessions. This one has qualities of both. Most of the new jobs are minimum wage. Fear is still there as businesses love restructuring and financially engineering jobs that can be done with less and less skills via cheaper workers. The rest go to India.
The question is how do you change the mindset? Without that we are in trouble. However, a good savings rate more help the economy more long term so I do not know.
Low end HPs still use Core 2 Duos. The Mac Mini is no longer even shipping with MacOSX and is now using iOS.
Apple always has newer GPUs and CPUs for the top of the line macbook pro and high end iMacs. It is true after market 3rd parties make the stuff latter but that is because Apple desktops are workstations and are high end business users. They want quadros and not the cheap gaming cards that we use.
The low end is older but that is true for any manufacture. Name any manufacture that has more up to date laptops than Macbook pros?
In 95 people didn't know if Firewire or USB would win. People assumed one or the other at the time. I supported firewire and thought it was a beta vs vhs all over.
My 96 era computer I got for graduation had USB ports. I ran Windows NT and Windows 95 on it. No support for USB whatsoever. It was not until Windows 2k and FreeBSD 3.4 by 1999 could I get my usb keyboard to work. MacOS supported both immediately when it came out.
Apple also was first promoting SCSI. Of course Apple did not win that battle as consumers still flocked to IDE.
Apple does not just include a hardware port. They make sure MacOS or MacOSX supported everything fully unlike pcs.
I am remembering FreeBSD 4.12 and 5.x. I remember bootstraping Java 1.3 code and shaking my head at the process.
I forgot that Java was released as open source. If Java 6 is supported I may give it another try as it has been several years.
I use Fedora which is what Redhat bases their enterprise systems from.
I found it very stable and packageKit and yum work as well as apt-get on debian based systems.
I use Eclipse and the lack of Java support is the reason I no longer run FreeBSD
Solaris ZFS is not as stable either. I do not administer such systems but from what I read many Solaris admins still run UFS on new server builds for this reason.
I wonder if Intel released this due to the embarrassing and expensive Sandy Bridge chipset recall?