Same here. It's not any specific game, it's pretty much *any* game. If I want to run Deus Covert Ops VI: Metal Edition on release day, chances are I'd have to boot to windows. I have linux partitions on all of my systems and run linux everywhere I can (media server, xbmc, etc) but when it comes down to which partition to boot into - Windows usually wins simply on the off-chance that I might want to play a game and don't feel like rebooting every time that happens.
I'm doing about the same thing, though my overall capacity is much lower due to the fact that I haven't been able to upgrade my 5 750gb drives in a few years. However I went to an external enclosure (Venus T5 from Newegg) and raid5. If the box is in the house, yeah I can see how you might not want an external enclosure next to the tv. However, once you stick it in the garage, that becomes moot. Who cares what it looks like in the garage? Run some cat6 to it, put a gigabit switch on the network (or 2 or 5) and enjoy having a nice, quiet living room. I'm using boxee boxes as the media frontends - one actual dlink box and a pc running ubuntu and boxee.
I personally hope HD prices start to drop sometime soon, I'd REALLY like to upgrade those drives but can't justify the prices right now for the size I'd like (at least 2TB).
Boxee for the frontend, Giganews for newsgroups, Newzbin to grab the news feeds, and Sickbeard to grab the shows I watch and update Boxee automatically. Works FABULOUSLY, and it's only about $30/mo for the Giganews subscription.
I've been waiting for so long and waiting for the best deal that I'm still running a GeForce2 Ultra... Talk about your procrastinators.:\ The 6600 GT might just be the ticket for me to finally frickin upgrade.
Can somebody at DoHS recommend switching to another browser every day so MS will start working on the backlog of bugs?
How about we take this a step further and have the DoHS recommend switching to another OS? That might get some of the fairly grievious bugs fixed tout de suite.;)
One time, back in the day, Linux could be installed on my Pentium 60 with as little as 8M of RAM. Today, minimum recommended is 128M with 256M being "better" (see SuSE web pages, since I was just there earlier today actually *buying* a 9.1 distribution from them, for this example).
One time, back in the day? Up until about 3 months ago I had my firewall running on a P60 with 16M ram and a 500M disk. Debian unstable. Ran just peachy.:P
Sun Microsystems has a manufacturing facility in Hillsboro, just off of Sunset near the Roadhouse (Cornelius Pass and Evergreen). E12/15/20/25K's made here.
The virus that they have invented can only survive if the HIV virus is present in the body. If you have no HIV in your body the "good" virus will simply die out.
*shudders*
Is anyone else reminded of the movie 'Mimic' in which these researchers engineered a bug to kill cockroaches, and built in this gene to make them die off when the cockroaches were gone?
Right. Even if you haven't seen the movie, I'm sure you can guess what happened.
If the guys that made this anti-HIV virus want to test it on humans, I'd like to suggest they do so in the lowest sub-basement of the CDC and monitor ONE person for 5 years or so before letting it loose in the wild. Call me paranoid, but I'd rather not have a genetically-engineered virus running loose in my body.
Hey, who said you'd be downloading other people's low quality shit? I (mostly *cough*) rip my own CD's so I don't have to try to find at *least* a 192kbps mp3 on the 'net that isn't a PITA to listen to over my mediocre speakers. Especially so that if I DO decide to make a mp3 cd for my home stereo, it doesn't sound like I ripped it from a tape that's been stepped on.
...after all with XP released it's just a matter of time before a magority of american's will have a "passport".
Oh gods, yes. We *just* bought a laptop that will mainly be for the wife's use. Inspiron 8100, *very* nice system, XP pre-installed. Every time there is a BSOD (thing is 3 days old, had one at least once a day so far), when it comes back up it wants to do error reporting. Each time it submits an error report, it wants you to be able to track it. Tracking requires...yes, you guessed it, a.NET Passport.
As soon as I realized this, I hit cancel and 'submit error report anonymously'.
Not everyone is going to realize that this is A Bad Thing(tm), unfortunately. But with the holes that Nimda, and Code Red exploited, and now THIS in Passport, how can you give your critical information to M$ without worrying 'just a little?'
For a small fraction of the cost, Linux on commodity hardware (Intel) is approching the power of Sun's products. It's inevitable, without some sigificant change.
I disagree, and it's not because I work at Sun. Commodity hardware is not nearly on a par regarding uptime and reliability as Commercial hardware. People don't buy Sun because it's cheap. People buy Sun because it WORKS. If you think I'm biased, replace Sun with IBM or SGI or Compaq or any other corporate entity that builds server hardware. You don't base your $$$ infrastructure on a $2k LinTel machine.
Sure, you can build a rather good system with commodity hardware. The PHB's MAY allow the techies to install Linux around the network. But when it comes to making a mission-critical application, they're not going to allow them to run down to PC Joe's, pick up a $2k box, install a $30 OS and believe it will run 24/7 without failure.
Remember, we're probably talking servers here. Users are *still* very dependent on the applications they use. Admins can make it nearly completely transparent for the end-user as to the hardware and software they connect to, but the front-end will probably have to stay Windows-based until they can be weaned from the teat of M$.
Not that this isn't a Very Good Thing(tm). But this isn't going to put Micro$oft out of business overnight.
Now that all the necessary screws on the bottom have been removed, set the iBook bottom (exposed motherboard) down on a anti static surface (I used a large motherboard anti static bag).
Um, I'm sorry, but an anti-static BAG is NOT an anti-static surface. The bag is only anti-static when something is placed within it and the bag is sealed. This is a concept known as a Faraday Cage[1]. Placing a component on TOP of an anti-static bag does absolutely nothing.
I've been guilty of the same thing myself, I hardly ever use any type of grounding/anti-static devices when handling my stuff. But that's me, when playing with my OWN equipment. When you publish a review telling people how to take their computers apart, and then don't use the proper precautions, that's just negligent.
[1] - A device that is a conductive enclosure that terminates anelectric field on the exterior so that no field exists on the inside of the enclosure.
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Same here. It's not any specific game, it's pretty much *any* game. If I want to run Deus Covert Ops VI: Metal Edition on release day, chances are I'd have to boot to windows. I have linux partitions on all of my systems and run linux everywhere I can (media server, xbmc, etc) but when it comes down to which partition to boot into - Windows usually wins simply on the off-chance that I might want to play a game and don't feel like rebooting every time that happens.
Specalized tools are necessary to remove half of the front end and 1/3 of the engine to change the frickin' oil.
Desktop or Server ram? Because server ram is generally ECC and cannot be used in desktops.
I'm doing about the same thing, though my overall capacity is much lower due to the fact that I haven't been able to upgrade my 5 750gb drives in a few years. However I went to an external enclosure (Venus T5 from Newegg) and raid5. If the box is in the house, yeah I can see how you might not want an external enclosure next to the tv. However, once you stick it in the garage, that becomes moot. Who cares what it looks like in the garage? Run some cat6 to it, put a gigabit switch on the network (or 2 or 5) and enjoy having a nice, quiet living room. I'm using boxee boxes as the media frontends - one actual dlink box and a pc running ubuntu and boxee.
I personally hope HD prices start to drop sometime soon, I'd REALLY like to upgrade those drives but can't justify the prices right now for the size I'd like (at least 2TB).
Boxee for the frontend, Giganews for newsgroups, Newzbin to grab the news feeds, and Sickbeard to grab the shows I watch and update Boxee automatically. Works FABULOUSLY, and it's only about $30/mo for the Giganews subscription.
Do you REALLY want to be tied to xXxcockxhungryxXx@aol.com for the rest of your life?
I use an NVidia GeForce 5200 video card...though Doom 3 is out of the question.
And why is that? I played Doom3 on a GeForce 2 Ultra 64M. You'd think a card 2-3 generations ahead of that would be able to play it adequately.
(rest of system is a Athlon XP2400+, 1G PC3200, 80G SATA - nice but nothing to write home about)
Yeah, and lights. And duct-tape.
I've been waiting for so long and waiting for the best deal that I'm still running a GeForce2 Ultra... Talk about your procrastinators. :\ The 6600 GT might just be the ticket for me to finally frickin upgrade.
One most obvious is that thin clients have no computational power. So if your network goes down the terminals are rendered useless.
Well, yes...but if the *main* use of the terminals is internet access - if the network goes down the terminals are rendered useless regardless.
Can somebody at DoHS recommend switching to another browser every day so MS will start working on the backlog of bugs?
;)
How about we take this a step further and have the DoHS recommend switching to another OS? That might get some of the fairly grievious bugs fixed tout de suite.
Actually, I think it's a guy...
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One time, back in the day, Linux could be installed on my Pentium 60 with as little as 8M of RAM. Today, minimum recommended is 128M with 256M being "better" (see SuSE web pages, since I was just there earlier today actually *buying* a 9.1 distribution from them, for this example).
:P
One time, back in the day? Up until about 3 months ago I had my firewall running on a P60 with 16M ram and a 500M disk. Debian unstable. Ran just peachy.
Sun Microsystems has a manufacturing facility in Hillsboro, just off of Sunset near the Roadhouse (Cornelius Pass and Evergreen). E12/15/20/25K's made here.
The virus that they have invented can only survive if the HIV virus is present in the body. If you have no HIV in your body the "good" virus will simply die out.
*shudders*
Is anyone else reminded of the movie 'Mimic' in which these researchers engineered a bug to kill cockroaches, and built in this gene to make them die off when the cockroaches were gone?
Right. Even if you haven't seen the movie, I'm sure you can guess what happened.
If the guys that made this anti-HIV virus want to test it on humans, I'd like to suggest they do so in the lowest sub-basement of the CDC and monitor ONE person for 5 years or so before letting it loose in the wild. Call me paranoid, but I'd rather not have a genetically-engineered virus running loose in my body.
And no, I don't have HIV nor AIDS.
Hey, who said you'd be downloading other people's low quality shit? I (mostly *cough*) rip my own CD's so I don't have to try to find at *least* a 192kbps mp3 on the 'net that isn't a PITA to listen to over my mediocre speakers. Especially so that if I DO decide to make a mp3 cd for my home stereo, it doesn't sound like I ripped it from a tape that's been stepped on.
Sheesh.
Let's threaten to cut Zim The Invader and start raking up the dough!!!
:( Damned low-life TV execs!
Okay, first of all it's Invader Zim, NOT 'Zim the Invader', and it's already been cancelled.
My question is, however, will an apt-get dist-upgrade get all the latest deb's (r4 debs, that is) and upgrade me automatically to debian2.2r4?
That's exactly what it will do. Apt-get is great.
...after all with XP released it's just a matter of time before a magority of american's will have a "passport".
.NET Passport.
Oh gods, yes. We *just* bought a laptop that will mainly be for the wife's use. Inspiron 8100, *very* nice system, XP pre-installed. Every time there is a BSOD (thing is 3 days old, had one at least once a day so far), when it comes back up it wants to do error reporting. Each time it submits an error report, it wants you to be able to track it. Tracking requires...yes, you guessed it, a
As soon as I realized this, I hit cancel and 'submit error report anonymously'.
Not everyone is going to realize that this is A Bad Thing(tm), unfortunately. But with the holes that Nimda, and Code Red exploited, and now THIS in Passport, how can you give your critical information to M$ without worrying 'just a little?'
For a small fraction of the cost, Linux on commodity hardware (Intel) is approching the power of Sun's products. It's inevitable, without some sigificant change.
I disagree, and it's not because I work at Sun. Commodity hardware is not nearly on a par regarding uptime and reliability as Commercial hardware. People don't buy Sun because it's cheap. People buy Sun because it WORKS. If you think I'm biased, replace Sun with IBM or SGI or Compaq or any other corporate entity that builds server hardware. You don't base your $$$ infrastructure on a $2k LinTel machine.
Sure, you can build a rather good system with commodity hardware. The PHB's MAY allow the techies to install Linux around the network. But when it comes to making a mission-critical application, they're not going to allow them to run down to PC Joe's, pick up a $2k box, install a $30 OS and believe it will run 24/7 without failure.
I will not yet uninstall IE6 from my system...
;)
Um, don't you mean can't?
Oh yeah, wait... I remember, Micro$oft "fixed" that bug.
Remember, we're probably talking servers here. Users are *still* very dependent on the applications they use. Admins can make it nearly completely transparent for the end-user as to the hardware and software they connect to, but the front-end will probably have to stay Windows-based until they can be weaned from the teat of M$.
Not that this isn't a Very Good Thing(tm). But this isn't going to put Micro$oft out of business overnight.
Score: -1, Redundant?
And keep Bruce Willis on standby in case he has to save the world?
Now that all the necessary screws on the bottom have been removed, set the iBook bottom (exposed motherboard) down on a anti static surface (I used a large motherboard anti static bag).
Um, I'm sorry, but an anti-static BAG is NOT an anti-static surface. The bag is only anti-static when something is placed within it and the bag is sealed. This is a concept known as a Faraday Cage[1]. Placing a component on TOP of an anti-static bag does absolutely nothing.
I've been guilty of the same thing myself, I hardly ever use any type of grounding/anti-static devices when handling my stuff. But that's me, when playing with my OWN equipment. When you publish a review telling people how to take their computers apart, and then don't use the proper precautions, that's just negligent.
[1] - A device that is a conductive enclosure that terminates anelectric field on the exterior so that no field exists on the inside of the enclosure.