I read a story here on slashdot about laserik's or some chain of eye laser surgury offices using Windows 95!
Worse one reader commented that error messages and gp faults appeared all over the place on the computer when his spouse did the surgury. The doctor just clicked on ignore and continued!
Why on Earth does such a system need ms software? Its not like Word is going to run on it.
Hate to say it but many conservative evangelical christians confuse socialism with communism when trying to destroy the democratic party by most of the preachers you see on TV>
You can be 100% capitalistic and 100% communistic at the same time. USSR was both socialistic and communist but lets not interwhine them.
China is less socialistic than the past but just as brutal today by facism since its just as much communistic so to speak.
Really you are right but those that believe in good godly capitalism think its a good thing since socialism must somehow equal oppression. IN reality we are funding their upcomming war agaisnt Taiwan and outsourcing jobs. We are providing the leaders for more nuclear weapons that we in return need more expensive star wars projects to defend ourselves from.
What if hardware like hard drives come with the trusted chip enabled automatically to lower support costs?
Soyo made some headway a year or two ago by refusing to turn ACPI off which hurt Linux and FreeBSD.
I can picture something similiar happening. The hardware companies would love to only support Windows and force users to upgrade to a fully trusted system.
Go look up Microsofts plans?
Each component will talk to each other using trust relationships in an encrypted nightmare so if you break one code you need to crack the others.
THen you are screwed.
Last, what if windows DRM edition requires the trust to always be on? Then what?
Go into bios and unlock it everytime you want to boot Linux?
After requiring this average joes will wonder why their Linux cd's wont boot anymore.
But with opensource software its mine or could be if I chose so.
Linux is ours, WIndows is theirs.
If I can not use the pc how I wish then I do not own it. To me that is FRUAD.
I paid for it and not a damn right to use it. I should be able to run programs I want right?
Same with a cell phone. I own it and these big corps want to still own my stuff after purchase and look at my appliances as vending machines rather than personal property.
Worse under the DMCA I could GO TO JAIL for using MY OWN APPLICIANCES WITHOUT THEIR APPROVAL.
There are really no other vendors in the cell phone area.
Think about it?
If you were the CEO of some cellular company you could make a fortune if you had money from every single app written for your phone. Worse you could charge your users fees if they ever want to install software and you can make even more money!
Why do you think the Xbox is drm locked and encrypted? Its so Microsoft can make more money at the expense of the market.
RMS may be a little off the wall with proprietary software taking away freedoms but proprietary hardware is the real threat.
We should put our efforts to fight this.
Just the other day here on slashdot there was a story on DRM being added to dvd standards. Why? Broadcast flags are now requried for the FCC by June. Its insane and our whole openess and ingeuinity of the internet itself is in danger.
We have to do something in orde to protect ourselves. Perhaps a NRA for computer hobbiests might be in order. We have no lobbiests on our side.
How many reading this want to make a bet that their phone is drm crippled? If its a really nice one my guess is 90% that everything is encrypted and locked.
After all why should the cell phone companies give up their monopoly as being the gatekeeper to all software including pim's and games?
After quantum bought them out they screwed up their drives. My gf owned 2 of them and one died just 3 days after she bought it. She knocked the case over.
The replacement lasted for 5 months before bad clusters appeared everywhere eventually taking out her system.
I do not trust any disk manufactor anymore and do not know where to buy.
Actually Maxtor is now junk. I told my gf to purchase one a year ago because they were supperior quality. My experiences were before the merger with quantum.
Well within 3 days of owning it she knocked the case over only to have it die a sudden death. I told her to purchase another brand. She chose the same one again.
Files began mysteriously vanishing and there were bad clusters all over the place until one day system32.dll could not be found.
Doing a search on the internet I found out Maxtor became WD and decided to lower the quality of maxtor products to sell the more expensive quantum products to users and OEM's.
Aren't monopolies great?
All I can say is my maxtor drives on my system will be my last until the situation improves.
The hitachi's I may give a try. Quantum looks promising too but they also own maxtor which I now despise.
Any compiler or I should say most will use lots of registers on the cpu itself and the Opteron has the memory controller chip in the cpu itself.
Things like branch prediction must be done in software on the Itanium which some computer scientists now say is impossible.
You can do that in hardware with risc processor but not Itanium if I recall.
I think it is a clossal failure but I am not a chip engineer. I do say I am glad I do not own one and a 1 pound heatsink with a fan that sounds like a jet engine to keep it cool because Intel/HP overclock it so it wont look as slow is not a good sign either.
Unfortunately Itanium suffers from a very very bad and unproven design. Moving optimizations to software was pure genious.... rolls eyes.
I think the intel engineers drank too much of the risc coolade and instead of promoting simplicity so they could add features like pipelines and branch predictions they instead moved those to software as well.
x86 has improved and their are worts all over it but it works.
Today's x86 processor just wrap x86 instructions to a risc core to execute.
IT works and it works quite well.
I would prefer to see Alpha re emerge but it aint going to happen. Its a shame really.
I am glad we are not stuck with epic and Itanium it would make writing assembly code and good compilers near impossible.
These companies at first only had unix and dos versions of their products. Ironic isn't it?
Well their is a reason SGI and Sun are still around in the workstation market. Fact is they are alraedy 64-bit and have been for quite some time.
This is the problem with MS. You become dependant on them and they are solely the reason it took 10 years to switch from 16bit to 32-bit. With FOSS you do not have to play by their rules.
Just buy the Opterons and run them in 32-bit mode. Its fine for most tasks except the ones that require decimal precision. Upgrade later.
MS will come out wiht a 64-bit version of Windows soon. If not and longhorn is the ticket then perhaps renting some SGI or Sun workstations for a year or two might not be such a bad idea while waiting for MS to port Windows to 64-bit if your obsolete workstation truly become unbearable.
I like what the other poster said about training. Your senior engineers should be familair with unix since microstation was a soley unix app until recently. Your jr ones can adapt and use the same software. If you need MS office you can keep your old alpha workstation on their desks in the meantime. With applications like VMware you can also boot Windows on the Linux Opteron boxes if they need MS office.
I made the mistake of majoring in biochemistry. I have a 3.0 GPA and trust me I am one of the better students.
Reason being is the coursework is hard. If I change my major my gpa will go with it and will hurt me finding a job because the employers want a 4.0 for liberal arts and business majors.
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How was gaming performance on it?
I heard its slower due to drivers and some strange hoops that the older 32-bit code had to go through in order to run.
Debian is not bleeding edge because they count bugs and only something bug free on all platforms is added into stable.
If 2.6 was production ready the debian folks would include it.
Beyond that.
I read a story here on slashdot about laserik's or some chain of eye laser surgury offices using Windows 95!
Worse one reader commented that error messages and gp faults appeared all over the place on the computer when his spouse did the surgury. The doctor just clicked on ignore and continued!
Why on Earth does such a system need ms software? Its not like Word is going to run on it.
Funny.
The older 32bit drivers work fine on FOSS unix operating systems.
Could it be because Windows is closed source or something dumb like NDIS and the DSDK is hardwared for 32-bit?
Then why does Debian still include kernel 2.4?
2.6 is still beta.
BSD looks alot better.
Hate to say it but many conservative evangelical christians confuse socialism with communism when trying to destroy the democratic party by most of the preachers you see on TV>
You can be 100% capitalistic and 100% communistic at the same time. USSR was both socialistic and communist but lets not interwhine them.
China is less socialistic than the past but just as brutal today by facism since its just as much communistic so to speak.
Really you are right but those that believe in good godly capitalism think its a good thing since socialism must somehow equal oppression. IN reality we are funding their upcomming war agaisnt Taiwan and outsourcing jobs. We are providing the leaders for more nuclear weapons that we in return need more expensive star wars projects to defend ourselves from.
Its a mess.
After 90% of the market has drm ISP's will require it as the threat of lawsuits go down as no worms or viruses appear anymore.
What if hardware like hard drives come with the trusted chip enabled automatically to lower support costs?
Soyo made some headway a year or two ago by refusing to turn ACPI off which hurt Linux and FreeBSD.
I can picture something similiar happening. The hardware companies would love to only support Windows and force users to upgrade to a fully trusted system.
Go look up Microsofts plans?
Each component will talk to each other using trust relationships in an encrypted nightmare so if you break one code you need to crack the others.
THen you are screwed.
Last, what if windows DRM edition requires the trust to always be on? Then what?
Go into bios and unlock it everytime you want to boot Linux?
After requiring this average joes will wonder why their Linux cd's wont boot anymore.
But with opensource software its mine or could be if I chose so.
Linux is ours, WIndows is theirs.
If I can not use the pc how I wish then I do not own it. To me that is FRUAD.
I paid for it and not a damn right to use it. I should be able to run programs I want right?
Same with a cell phone. I own it and these big corps want to still own my stuff after purchase and look at my appliances as vending machines rather than personal property.
Worse under the DMCA I could GO TO JAIL for using MY OWN APPLICIANCES WITHOUT THEIR APPROVAL.
I think its time we rose up agaisnt this.
None!
The reason MS was up in arms is because MS wants to be the monopoly and gatekeeper for any access to the XBOX hardware.
If the pc were invented today it would be drm crippled and only MS would have the priveldge to write software for it.
Its about starting monopolies.
There are really no other vendors in the cell phone area.
Think about it?
If you were the CEO of some cellular company you could make a fortune if you had money from every single app written for your phone. Worse you could charge your users fees if they ever want to install software and you can make even more money!
Why do you think the Xbox is drm locked and encrypted? Its so Microsoft can make more money at the expense of the market.
RMS may be a little off the wall with proprietary software taking away freedoms but proprietary hardware is the real threat.
We should put our efforts to fight this.
Just the other day here on slashdot there was a story on DRM being added to dvd standards. Why? Broadcast flags are now requried for the FCC by June. Its insane and our whole openess and ingeuinity of the internet itself is in danger.
We have to do something in orde to protect ourselves. Perhaps a NRA for computer hobbiests might be in order. We have no lobbiests on our side.
How many reading this want to make a bet that their phone is drm crippled? If its a really nice one my guess is 90% that everything is encrypted and locked.
After all why should the cell phone companies give up their monopoly as being the gatekeeper to all software including pim's and games?
"How many more gigahertz do we need my life already?"
Run 3d studioMAX and Gentoo?
Nothing is powerfull enough and everything is way too slow.
I use to only buy Maxtor in the past since Western Digitals were known to die.
Has the situation changed?
I own 2 maxtors in my case right now and badly need upgrading soon. The new ones after 2001 SUCK.
Anyway which brand do you trust? I am tempted to try the hitachi and assume its quiet.
I use to love Maxtor.
After quantum bought them out they screwed up their drives. My gf owned 2 of them and one died just 3 days after she bought it. She knocked the case over.
The replacement lasted for 5 months before bad clusters appeared everywhere eventually taking out her system.
I do not trust any disk manufactor anymore and do not know where to buy.
Maxtor also made the quietest drives too.
Actually Maxtor is now junk. I told my gf to purchase one a year ago because they were supperior quality. My experiences were before the merger with quantum.
Well within 3 days of owning it she knocked the case over only to have it die a sudden death. I told her to purchase another brand. She chose the same one again.
Files began mysteriously vanishing and there were bad clusters all over the place until one day system32.dll could not be found.
Doing a search on the internet I found out Maxtor became WD and decided to lower the quality of maxtor products to sell the more expensive quantum products to users and OEM's.
Aren't monopolies great?
All I can say is my maxtor drives on my system will be my last until the situation improves.
The hitachi's I may give a try. Quantum looks promising too but they also own maxtor which I now despise.
Any compiler or I should say most will use lots of registers on the cpu itself and the Opteron has the memory controller chip in the cpu itself.
Things like branch prediction must be done in software on the Itanium which some computer scientists now say is impossible.
You can do that in hardware with risc processor but not Itanium if I recall.
I think it is a clossal failure but I am not a chip engineer. I do say I am glad I do not own one and a 1 pound heatsink with a fan that sounds like a jet engine to keep it cool because Intel/HP overclock it so it wont look as slow is not a good sign either.
New != supperior.
Unfortunately Itanium suffers from a very very bad and unproven design. Moving optimizations to software was pure genious.... rolls eyes.
I think the intel engineers drank too much of the risc coolade and instead of promoting simplicity so they could add features like pipelines and branch predictions they instead moved those to software as well.
x86 has improved and their are worts all over it but it works.
Today's x86 processor just wrap x86 instructions to a risc core to execute.
IT works and it works quite well.
I would prefer to see Alpha re emerge but it aint going to happen. Its a shame really.
I am glad we are not stuck with epic and Itanium it would make writing assembly code and good compilers near impossible.
These companies at first only had unix and dos versions of their products. Ironic isn't it?
Well their is a reason SGI and Sun are still around in the workstation market. Fact is they are alraedy 64-bit and have been for quite some time.
This is the problem with MS. You become dependant on them and they are solely the reason it took 10 years to switch from 16bit to 32-bit. With FOSS you do not have to play by their rules.
Just buy the Opterons and run them in 32-bit mode. Its fine for most tasks except the ones that require decimal precision. Upgrade later.
MS will come out wiht a 64-bit version of Windows soon. If not and longhorn is the ticket then perhaps renting some SGI or Sun workstations for a year or two might not be such a bad idea while waiting for MS to port Windows to 64-bit if your obsolete workstation truly become unbearable.
I like what the other poster said about training. Your senior engineers should be familair with unix since microstation was a soley unix app until recently. Your jr ones can adapt and use the same software. If you need MS office you can keep your old alpha workstation on their desks in the meantime. With applications like VMware you can also boot Windows on the Linux Opteron boxes if they need MS office.
Agreed.
I made the mistake of majoring in biochemistry. I have a 3.0 GPA and trust me I am one of the better students.
Reason being is the coursework is hard. If I change my major my gpa will go with it and will hurt me finding a job because the employers want a 4.0 for liberal arts and business majors.
Interesting.
I never hired anyone so I am not too sure how it worked. I just assume what people tell me.
Hiring is tough and I do wonder what else you judge an applicant by. My guess is work experience and the interview process. But who knows.
But for someone new the GPA and some character of the individual is all you have to work by.
I am not complaining at all but just giving you the facts.
Any employement agency will tell you that each HR manager scans a resume within 15-30 seconds and puts it in a keep or throw away pile.
You can deny it all you want but that is what they are paid to do. If you have less than a 3.5 gpa with little experience its going in the can.
I thought all modern motherboards could read drives up to 2 terrabytes which is the limit in a 32-bit operating system?
Someone correct me if I am wrong because I plan to go back in the pc industry soon and need to know these things.
I can't see what they are doing wrong?
Canada is a free country and if they want to start their own business then let htem.
Hate to say it but upper management are turncoats in this day and age as well.
You can not trust anyone.
You are there to make them happy and they will fire you in a second if you do not accomplish this.
Perhaps these folks realized they could be more competitive than them.
I think you are wrong.
The WTO makes sure everyone uses DRM and that their investors errrr lobbiests get more money.
The WTO is highly corrupt and includes former media executes.
Its perfect since the WTO is unelectable so its a license for them to do whatever they want.