So let me get this straight. Because RedHat "butchered" KDE, you went with Windows.
No, and its easy to see why you posted as AC, since you knew this was fud. I was already using Windows, and I didn't switch because RedHat keeps fudging up KDE. v.8 KDE is just not right. which may be why v9 is coming out 6 months later.
Desktop Linux (which is what redhat linux is now) is still very much beta software
Sure, because it's a moving target and because it's so inconsistent. With Linux, I can never tell if the new distro will be a dog until I've played with it a few months, and each machine I install it on may react a little differently. With Windows, I already *know* it's going to suck.
You know, I bet lots of people will miss the advantages of this. This is one reason I still have Windows(r) on the desktop, even tho I insist on Linux on the servers. Windows is CONSISTANT and easy to get half ass right. Sucky in a lot of ways, but its a known quantity. Redhat keeps insisting on using Gnome (which i dont like) and manages to butcher KDE on its installs if you pick it as your default.
Windows is windows. Sometimes less choice is better, mainly if the ONLY choice generally works. I do look forward to using Linux on the Desktop, but I doubt 9 is going to be it.
Oh yea, and I am pissed that all my 7.2 servers are no longer supported.
The sun has been causing global warming? Now who would have ever expected a giant ball of uncontrolled nuclear explosions to change at all and have any effect on the warming of our planet.
Its a lie. Its the Republicans, plain and simple. And if it IS the sun, then the Republicans are who made the sun hotter. And if the sun is hotter due to a natural phenomenon, then the Republicans sped it up with their capitalism. If we didn't drill for oil, the sun wouldn't be so hot. The sun is heating up because of greenhouse gases. Its the Conservative's fault the sun is hotter, it was the tax cut that caused it. SUV's. Too many in on the planet causes more tidal friction on the sun, so its the SUV's fault, which is the Republican's fault because they own stock in the companies that make the SUV's, who are being irresponsible for giving the public what it wants, since everyone knows only Hollywood types should drive SUV's, not these damn soccer moms and farmers. Its because of the decline of endangered species. The sun is warming up because of drilling in ANWR, which hasn't started yet. The sun is part of the vast right wing conspiracy. Its the Republican's war causing it. Its because the sun is angery at us for our ways.
Ok, did I leave any out? Just wanted to help and get the new talking points out for the libs;)
From the article: Laubscher says despite the decision, Microsoft fully maintains that its software is able to fulfil the task of keeping hackers and viruses out, making the customers' data safer than if kept in a safe.
I try to be open minded, but when you walk around with your foot hovering in front of your mouth, eventually, someone is going to push it in. This is worse that walking around with a "kick me" sign on your back, because they did it on purpose.
The claims they made are so over the top, its obvious their marketing dept. has lost all contact with the real world. No one with a pulse is stupid enough to believe it just because they said its true. This is insulting to their existing customers, who know better.
8k including prior art ?... at that rate Amazon's must've been real cheap!
It all depends on the research necessary, thats often the biggest expense. Of course, if you lie like hell, fudge your fact (knowing the pat. off. wont check up on you anyway) then you can save a bundle. We didn't do that. more technical patents are more expensive than these 'theory' patents. Like the patent for using a static link for connecting to dynamic content. Yea. its really a patent.
Ok ok ok ok, I think I have figured all this patent stuff out. We were all wrong. All these patents are filed for network testing and cost savings only. Follow my thought processes here (scary, but try):
1. file obscene patent. 2. get it posted on Slashdot. 3. your servers are flooded with tens of thousands of/. users just reading and hax0rs with an ax to grind. 4. assuming your network doesn't buckle, you now have fully tested your network servers for the small cost of a patent, saving your company hundreds of thousands of $ in tradional testing;) 5. Profit. oh, no wait, wrong gag.
Just because you have the right to make backup copies, doesn't mean the RIAA has the obligation to make it easy for you.
Thats not the point. They made it ILLEGAL to. THATS the problem. How do you make a legal copy of a DVD when the DMCA and the MPAA consider EVERY method illegal, for instance?
Locks aren't perfect either. Should we just leave our doors open?
Thats not even romotely the issue. It a matter of futility. If you treat your customers badly, they will not feel guilty stealing from you. Its not a matter of wrong or right, its a matter of fact. So if you want them to NOT steal from you, it makes sense that you don't piss them off by not allowing them to make legal backups.
You can produce all the music you want, but without promotion, no one will listen to it except the small group of people you play for in the local bars and a few random hits on your website. The job of the labels, whether independent or major is to promote music. It's nearly impossible to bypass them and sell a lot of records
Not everyone does music to get rich. My point was how good it was, not how profitable. Not every musician is a coke headed asshole without a grip on reality. Just the ones trying to get rich or already are. And their music begins to suck. Smaller 'no label' bands don't have to deal with that.
I think you missed the whole idea of the post. Its not about wrong or right. Its about the reality that the model for making music is not longer what it was just 10 years ago. Not my opinion, documented fact that the big guys are LOSING money (check sony music profit reporting).
The way we get music is changing. Period. If the big record companies want to keep making money, they will have to adapt. I don't care what laws you pass, people want downloadable music, that they can copy to their portables or burn to cd. They are going to treat music that way. Its not a protest, its not politics, its simply what they want. If the record companies will give them that for a fee, then the record companies will have a business model that will continue to be viable. If they don't, people will still download and transfer the music, legal or not. Once again, thats just how it IS, right or wrong.
Now, listen carefully: Its not about promotion, or screen doors. Its about people insisting on accessing music this way. And they will. No matter what. Law be damned. They will adapt. They will buy if they can, steal if they must. If the record companies are smart, they will serve this demand, instead of futile attempts to stiffle it. Their current attempts to force people to accept their methods of distribution is causing the industry to implode upon itself.
I didn't say I justify or agree with anything. I am just telling you what is really going on.
Not only will that NOT happen, but Cisco would WANT to make Linksys more popular. Change the name to Cisco/Linksys and get people in small offices using them. When they need to step up, they are more likely to use the same brand if they had a good experience. Marketing 102.
IF they are smart, they will use it to build brand loyalty on the low end that will make them more popular for growing companies.
I think I'm the only one on the whole planet that is not too excited over combing TV and computers. I think they are different and serve different purposes, and should stay different! I'm not a big TV person though and if I miss a show, OH WELL! Does anyone think the same way?
I used to think the same thing. Wouldn't buy a $50 card to even try it. Then I FOUND an old Pinnacle TV card in one of our random piles of cards, and installed it. Since I have cable modem at the home office, it was easy to setup. Now I don't know how I got along without it.
I use it mainly to watch (or listen) to news during the day while I work. Since news is 90% of what I watch anyway, it works great, allowed me to remove the tv from the office, save the power, and since it will run full screen, i can easily use the box for a tv only when the image is worthwhile. (seldom, but still there when I do)
The problem is most offices don't have cable or its a pain to setup. For a home office, however, its a good thing. I even leave the news on in the background while taking a break and playing a game of SC4 or AOM.
Its also WAY easier to record on the computer than with a vcr and makes it easy to mpeg and burn to cd. You can even edit out the commercials, etc. I haven't used a vcr in ages. I am almost ashamed to admit i have almost every South Park on cd. I get about 3 per cd:)
yea, if you look later on, its obvious he is a BSD snob. Saying to "format your drive and install BSD".
Anyone who thinks THIER brand of OS is the only that doesn't suck, is obviously a loser who doesn't live in the real world. I use several OS's for a good reason: use the right tool for the job. If someone ONLY uses one OS, then obviously they don't know shit about the others.
I thought Thursday was the day we discovered all the crap that broke because of the patches...
Hell no, YOU are the one that installed the patch that broke the servers, fix that on your OWN time, over the weekend or at night. That will teach you.
Great, so I want to get on the good side of the government and big companies by signing up for this license. I think I'll just set my target for $10 billion so I don't have to worry about it ever actually going open source, god forbid
But the point is, the amount is declared up front. The buyer sees that the seller won't open up until he makes 10bil, and another that is looking to make 150mil, then he looks at the 150mil knowing it will go open source sooner, and his costs of licensing will go down on an already installed infrastructure.
I don't know if this really is the way to go, and at first I though, 'eh, sounds silly'. But the more I looked at it, the more interesting it is. The one thing that I DO like about it, is the fact that it assumes that being 'open source' is important and desirable to the end user. While appearant to you and I, to other consumers who don't know or care what OSS is, it exposes them to the idea.
As to the application of it, I have always thought that Microsoft should release the source for DOS 6.x and 16 bit versions of Windows. Of course, the time to do it would have been when 98 came out.
I have both ms and linux servers, and it has been patch city all week. At least I know why. You know what they say, bad press is better than no press...
imo Bush needs to be ousted from power as well, but that will happen before too long anyway. (I mean seriously, this guy starts off by raping the environment and finishes by raping foreign countries...)
Either 1) you are lying and you are not an American or 2) you are an idiot that doesn't understand how democracy works in America.
A president can not be "ousted" period. There are no recall procedures for federal offices. A president can be impeached and then forced from office, but considering everything the president does has to be passed by the majority of our elected representatives (and often by 60 in the senate) then he is acting in concert with the people. A 'high crime' has to be committed to begin an impeachment. There has been no crime whatsoever.
The vast majority of people agree with President Bush. Period. All this FUD about most disagreeing with him is just that, FUD. He has enjoyed the highest approval ratings in history. Higher than FDR. (read your history). You may disagree, and that is fine, but you need to clearly realize that you are in the minority. You have the right to disagree. This doesn't make your FUD true.
As to raping the environment, this is so unfounded its rediculous. This is straight out of the Democratic handbook. Unsubstantiated and FUD. Anwr? Yes, we should drill there. Look at the results of drilling in other areas of Alaska. So far, the most damage it has done is to create a population explosion of carabu. Really. Once again, check your facts. I could go on and on, but it really doesn't matter. You don't care about the truth.
But then again, it doesn't matter to people like you. You are not anti-war. You are not pro-environment, you are just anti-Bush. Facts don't matter. Reality doesn't matter. You just are so filled with hate for this man that no logic, facts or reality could ever matter.
Oh, for the record. I didn't vote for Bush. That doesn't make him a bad person and doesn't make everything he does wrong. In retrospect, I wish I had voted for him. I still don't agree with him all the time, but I respect him and believe he is doing what he feels is the morally correct thing to do.
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I checked that out. While its not a bad program, the whole "you have to keep books for 30 days" and the limits it places are a bit troubling.
If i just wanted to read WHOLE BOOKS, then it would be a good deal. But if i just want to search some serious hacks, tweaks and howtos, its not the best method or price. I would be paying for stuff I didnt really want to read much on (maybe 1 chapter or less).
Their pricing page:
Starter - 5 slot Bookshelf $9.99 per month Small - 10 slot Bookshelf $14.99 per month Medium - 20 slot Bookshelf $24.99 per month Large - 30 slot Bookshelf $29.99 per month
Any 'book' you check out has to stay checked out for 30 days, filling that slot. Even if i only wanted it for 5 minutes to read a single paragraph.
Its not a bad model (albeit a bit pricy), but I would rather see a more 'library' method, where i can search unlimited books, extract only the parts i want, copy them for reference later. I can do this NOW at my public library, and pay 10 cents for copies as it is. What I would be paying for is convenience only. Thats how I see it anyway.
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why cant all this information be on a searchable website? and charge me subscription...
Amen, especially 221 page stuff like this, with half the content redundent for experienced admins. I would rather visit the site, print out 20 to 30 pages of the really good stuff, put that in my magical book of tricks (old 3 ring binders, dozens based on different daemons) and use it that way.
I subscribe to other sites (including pay) and strongly prefer that method to get my info. I will still buy books, but stuff like this is best for subscription.
Heck, even when it's not cheap plastic it's usually horribly ugly. The early USB ZIP drive that's the same old design but in translucent blue is a perfect example.
I agree. Some things look better when you CAN'T see everything inside. WHY would need or want to see the inside of a zip drive anyway, unless you are trying to figure out that whole 'click of death' thing.
Now that I thing about it, this would apply to porn as well. I don't need to see the inner workings in order to appreciate the functionality.:D
They're probably having a real bitch of a time with Apple. I can't imagine Apple will make it easy for OSX to run on hardware not normally found in Macs.
Keep in mind that Linus works for Transmeta, and OS X is BSD. I mean seriously, who would have the most experience in the entire world at doing this?
Transmeta probably already has the PPC emulation down pat...It's just that it would be unwise to release it if OSX (Its most prominent potential use) won't run on it. Bad publicity.
I am not convinced that they care about PPC. What financial incentive would they have to port their morph code to PPC? Frankly, I doubt they are wasting any time on anything except what will dig their butts out of a hole, which is x86, and its where they have the most talent in anyway.
They don't mess with PPC simply because there is no money in it. When you live in the real world and accountable to stock holders, you don't do stuff just cause its cool unless it makes $.
underclock. even out of the factory, CPUs are basically overclocked for all intensive purposes. I know thats not what you all want to hear. But every advance that the chipmakers make that should be able to reduce the heat coming off a processor ends up getting put into running it faster instead. I grant its good for the MHz race, but the MHz race in the long run isn't really that good of an idea.
Silly me, I have just been buying dual cpu boxes instead. Then again, I only need that high of performance on servers, where I would never consider overclocking anyway. That may be why my dual p3/1.0 can actually get more work done than my single p4/2.5. That and p4's suck per cycle compared with p3s. But as you stated its the Mhz race, so the p4 'wins' even tho its slower.
And yea, this is just a freaking AC unit, albeit a fancier one, but still an AC. These have been around for many years. The guy even used a rather lame MB that couldn't juice the chip to top out levels. I guess he didn't check to see about the potential problems with any motherboards (which WAS documented in the forums), or check to see that the board he chose had a low voltage cap (which was documented in the specs). And when he had a problem, it took him a couple days to 'get around to checking the forums'.
Worst article. Ever. (almost)
Now, show me how to convert a dorm fridge to a cooler and still keep your beer cool, then thats a project I will try, purely for the cool factor.
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So let me get this straight. Because RedHat "butchered" KDE, you went with Windows.
No, and its easy to see why you posted as AC, since you knew this was fud. I was already using Windows, and I didn't switch because RedHat keeps fudging up KDE. v.8 KDE is just not right. which may be why v9 is coming out 6 months later.
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Desktop Linux (which is what redhat linux is now) is still very much beta software
Sure, because it's a moving target and because it's so inconsistent. With Linux, I can never tell if the new distro will be a dog until I've played with it a few months, and each machine I install it on may react a little differently. With Windows, I already *know* it's going to suck.
You know, I bet lots of people will miss the advantages of this. This is one reason I still have Windows(r) on the desktop, even tho I insist on Linux on the servers. Windows is CONSISTANT and easy to get half ass right. Sucky in a lot of ways, but its a known quantity. Redhat keeps insisting on using Gnome (which i dont like) and manages to butcher KDE on its installs if you pick it as your default.
Windows is windows. Sometimes less choice is better, mainly if the ONLY choice generally works. I do look forward to using Linux on the Desktop, but I doubt 9 is going to be it.
Oh yea, and I am pissed that all my 7.2 servers are no longer supported.
The sun has been causing global warming? Now who would have ever expected a giant ball of uncontrolled nuclear explosions to change at all and have any effect on the warming of our planet.
;)
Its a lie. Its the Republicans, plain and simple. And if it IS the sun, then the Republicans are who made the sun hotter. And if the sun is hotter due to a natural phenomenon, then the Republicans sped it up with their capitalism. If we didn't drill for oil, the sun wouldn't be so hot. The sun is heating up because of greenhouse gases. Its the Conservative's fault the sun is hotter, it was the tax cut that caused it. SUV's. Too many in on the planet causes more tidal friction on the sun, so its the SUV's fault, which is the Republican's fault because they own stock in the companies that make the SUV's, who are being irresponsible for giving the public what it wants, since everyone knows only Hollywood types should drive SUV's, not these damn soccer moms and farmers. Its because of the decline of endangered species. The sun is warming up because of drilling in ANWR, which hasn't started yet. The sun is part of the vast right wing conspiracy. Its the Republican's war causing it. Its because the sun is angery at us for our ways.
Ok, did I leave any out? Just wanted to help and get the new talking points out for the libs
From the article:
Laubscher says despite the decision, Microsoft fully maintains that its software is able to fulfil the task of keeping hackers and viruses out, making the customers' data safer than if kept in a safe.
I try to be open minded, but when you walk around with your foot hovering in front of your mouth, eventually, someone is going to push it in. This is worse that walking around with a "kick me" sign on your back, because they did it on purpose.
The claims they made are so over the top, its obvious their marketing dept. has lost all contact with the real world. No one with a pulse is stupid enough to believe it just because they said its true. This is insulting to their existing customers, who know better.
8k including prior art ? ... at that rate Amazon's must've been real cheap!
It all depends on the research necessary, thats often the biggest expense. Of course, if you lie like hell, fudge your fact (knowing the pat. off. wont check up on you anyway) then you can save a bundle. We didn't do that. more technical patents are more expensive than these 'theory' patents. Like the patent for using a static link for connecting to dynamic content. Yea. its really a patent.
The real irony is: All those fake emails about "Congress is going to start charging for email" that circulated in the 90s would be coming true.
Ok ok ok ok, I think I have figured all this patent stuff out. We were all wrong. All these patents are filed for network testing and cost savings only. Follow my thought processes here (scary, but try):
/. users just reading and hax0rs with an ax to grind. ;)
1. file obscene patent.
2. get it posted on Slashdot.
3. your servers are flooded with tens of thousands of
4. assuming your network doesn't buckle, you now have fully tested your network servers for the small cost of a patent, saving your company hundreds of thousands of $ in tradional testing
5. Profit. oh, no wait, wrong gag.
This is /. - of course nobody read it. They were all posting desperately in the hope they'd get the low hanging karma-fruits.
;)
Wow, nice analogy. I might have to steal that one and pretend I made it up.
Moderators, mod the parent up.......... oh wait....
Okay as long as you supply the $5k fee per patent application.
Our last patent was closer to $8k including legal fees and prior art searches. Many cost much more.
Just because you have the right to make backup copies, doesn't mean the RIAA has the obligation to make it easy for you.
Thats not the point. They made it ILLEGAL to. THATS the problem. How do you make a legal copy of a DVD when the DMCA and the MPAA consider EVERY method illegal, for instance?
Locks aren't perfect either. Should we just leave our doors open?
Thats not even romotely the issue. It a matter of futility. If you treat your customers badly, they will not feel guilty stealing from you. Its not a matter of wrong or right, its a matter of fact. So if you want them to NOT steal from you, it makes sense that you don't piss them off by not allowing them to make legal backups.
You can produce all the music you want, but without promotion, no one will listen to it except the small group of people you play for in the local bars and a few random hits on your website. The job of the labels, whether independent or major is to promote music. It's nearly impossible to bypass them and sell a lot of records
Not everyone does music to get rich. My point was how good it was, not how profitable. Not every musician is a coke headed asshole without a grip on reality. Just the ones trying to get rich or already are. And their music begins to suck. Smaller 'no label' bands don't have to deal with that.
I think you missed the whole idea of the post. Its not about wrong or right. Its about the reality that the model for making music is not longer what it was just 10 years ago. Not my opinion, documented fact that the big guys are LOSING money (check sony music profit reporting).
The way we get music is changing. Period. If the big record companies want to keep making money, they will have to adapt. I don't care what laws you pass, people want downloadable music, that they can copy to their portables or burn to cd. They are going to treat music that way. Its not a protest, its not politics, its simply what they want. If the record companies will give them that for a fee, then the record companies will have a business model that will continue to be viable. If they don't, people will still download and transfer the music, legal or not. Once again, thats just how it IS, right or wrong.
Now, listen carefully: Its not about promotion, or screen doors. Its about people insisting on accessing music this way. And they will. No matter what. Law be damned. They will adapt. They will buy if they can, steal if they must. If the record companies are smart, they will serve this demand, instead of futile attempts to stiffle it. Their current attempts to force people to accept their methods of distribution is causing the industry to implode upon itself.
I didn't say I justify or agree with anything. I am just telling you what is really going on.
How long until Cisco kills off LinkSys?
Not only will that NOT happen, but Cisco would WANT to make Linksys more popular. Change the name to Cisco/Linksys and get people in small offices using them. When they need to step up, they are more likely to use the same brand if they had a good experience. Marketing 102.
IF they are smart, they will use it to build brand loyalty on the low end that will make them more popular for growing companies.
The price for LinkSys will go up. The corporate politics and craziness of Cisco will see to that.
Then more people will buy D-Link, which is comparable from my experience. (using Linksys home router and dlink pcmcia cards, myself)
Just like getting married.
When a woman changes her name by getting married, she also stops sucking.
You mean she quits sucking YOU. Doesn't mean she quits everyone else....
I think I'm the only one on the whole planet that is not too excited over combing TV and computers. I think they are different and serve different purposes, and should stay different! I'm not a big TV person though and if I miss a show, OH WELL! Does anyone think the same way?
:)
I used to think the same thing. Wouldn't buy a $50 card to even try it. Then I FOUND an old Pinnacle TV card in one of our random piles of cards, and installed it. Since I have cable modem at the home office, it was easy to setup. Now I don't know how I got along without it.
I use it mainly to watch (or listen) to news during the day while I work. Since news is 90% of what I watch anyway, it works great, allowed me to remove the tv from the office, save the power, and since it will run full screen, i can easily use the box for a tv only when the image is worthwhile. (seldom, but still there when I do)
The problem is most offices don't have cable or its a pain to setup. For a home office, however, its a good thing. I even leave the news on in the background while taking a break and playing a game of SC4 or AOM.
Its also WAY easier to record on the computer than with a vcr and makes it easy to mpeg and burn to cd. You can even edit out the commercials, etc. I haven't used a vcr in ages. I am almost ashamed to admit i have almost every South Park on cd. I get about 3 per cd
yea, if you look later on, its obvious he is a BSD snob. Saying to "format your drive and install BSD".
Anyone who thinks THIER brand of OS is the only that doesn't suck, is obviously a loser who doesn't live in the real world. I use several OS's for a good reason: use the right tool for the job. If someone ONLY uses one OS, then obviously they don't know shit about the others.
I thought Thursday was the day we discovered all the crap that broke because of the patches...
Hell no, YOU are the one that installed the patch that broke the servers, fix that on your OWN time, over the weekend or at night. That will teach you.
Samba is not a standard part of any Linux distro that I know of.
Isn't Redhat a distro, Elmer?
Great, so I want to get on the good side of the government and big companies by signing up for this license. I think I'll just set my target for $10 billion so I don't have to worry about it ever actually going open source, god forbid
But the point is, the amount is declared up front. The buyer sees that the seller won't open up until he makes 10bil, and another that is looking to make 150mil, then he looks at the 150mil knowing it will go open source sooner, and his costs of licensing will go down on an already installed infrastructure.
I don't know if this really is the way to go, and at first I though, 'eh, sounds silly'. But the more I looked at it, the more interesting it is. The one thing that I DO like about it, is the fact that it assumes that being 'open source' is important and desirable to the end user. While appearant to you and I, to other consumers who don't know or care what OSS is, it exposes them to the idea.
As to the application of it, I have always thought that Microsoft should release the source for DOS 6.x and 16 bit versions of Windows. Of course, the time to do it would have been when 98 came out.
Ain't competition great?
Now that was funny!
I have both ms and linux servers, and it has been patch city all week. At least I know why. You know what they say, bad press is better than no press...
imo Bush needs to be ousted from power as well, but that will happen before too long anyway. (I mean seriously, this guy starts off by raping the environment and finishes by raping foreign countries...)
Either 1) you are lying and you are not an American or 2) you are an idiot that doesn't understand how democracy works in America.
A president can not be "ousted" period. There are no recall procedures for federal offices. A president can be impeached and then forced from office, but considering everything the president does has to be passed by the majority of our elected representatives (and often by 60 in the senate) then he is acting in concert with the people. A 'high crime' has to be committed to begin an impeachment. There has been no crime whatsoever.
The vast majority of people agree with President Bush. Period. All this FUD about most disagreeing with him is just that, FUD. He has enjoyed the highest approval ratings in history. Higher than FDR. (read your history). You may disagree, and that is fine, but you need to clearly realize that you are in the minority. You have the right to disagree. This doesn't make your FUD true.
As to raping the environment, this is so unfounded its rediculous. This is straight out of the Democratic handbook. Unsubstantiated and FUD. Anwr? Yes, we should drill there. Look at the results of drilling in other areas of Alaska. So far, the most damage it has done is to create a population explosion of carabu. Really. Once again, check your facts. I could go on and on, but it really doesn't matter. You don't care about the truth.
But then again, it doesn't matter to people like you. You are not anti-war. You are not pro-environment, you are just anti-Bush. Facts don't matter. Reality doesn't matter. You just are so filled with hate for this man that no logic, facts or reality could ever matter.
Oh, for the record. I didn't vote for Bush. That doesn't make him a bad person and doesn't make everything he does wrong. In retrospect, I wish I had voted for him. I still don't agree with him all the time, but I respect him and believe he is doing what he feels is the morally correct thing to do.
I checked that out. While its not a bad program, the whole "you have to keep books for 30 days" and the limits it places are a bit troubling.
If i just wanted to read WHOLE BOOKS, then it would be a good deal. But if i just want to search some serious hacks, tweaks and howtos, its not the best method or price. I would be paying for stuff I didnt really want to read much on (maybe 1 chapter or less).
Their pricing page:
Starter - 5 slot Bookshelf $9.99 per month
Small - 10 slot Bookshelf $14.99 per month
Medium - 20 slot Bookshelf $24.99 per month
Large - 30 slot Bookshelf $29.99 per month
Any 'book' you check out has to stay checked out for 30 days, filling that slot. Even if i only wanted it for 5 minutes to read a single paragraph.
Its not a bad model (albeit a bit pricy), but I would rather see a more 'library' method, where i can search unlimited books, extract only the parts i want, copy them for reference later. I can do this NOW at my public library, and pay 10 cents for copies as it is. What I would be paying for is convenience only. Thats how I see it anyway.
why cant all this information be on a searchable website? and charge me subscription...
Amen, especially 221 page stuff like this, with half the content redundent for experienced admins. I would rather visit the site, print out 20 to 30 pages of the really good stuff, put that in my magical book of tricks (old 3 ring binders, dozens based on different daemons) and use it that way.
I subscribe to other sites (including pay) and strongly prefer that method to get my info. I will still buy books, but stuff like this is best for subscription.
Heck, even when it's not cheap plastic it's usually horribly ugly. The early USB ZIP drive that's the same old design but in translucent blue is a perfect example.
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I agree. Some things look better when you CAN'T see everything inside. WHY would need or want to see the inside of a zip drive anyway, unless you are trying to figure out that whole 'click of death' thing.
Now that I thing about it, this would apply to porn as well. I don't need to see the inner workings in order to appreciate the functionality.
They're probably having a real bitch of a time with Apple. I can't imagine Apple will make it easy for OSX to run on hardware not normally found in Macs.
Keep in mind that Linus works for Transmeta, and OS X is BSD. I mean seriously, who would have the most experience in the entire world at doing this?
Transmeta probably already has the PPC emulation down pat...It's just that it would be unwise to release it if OSX (Its most prominent potential use) won't run on it. Bad publicity.
I am not convinced that they care about PPC. What financial incentive would they have to port their morph code to PPC? Frankly, I doubt they are wasting any time on anything except what will dig their butts out of a hole, which is x86, and its where they have the most talent in anyway.
They don't mess with PPC simply because there is no money in it. When you live in the real world and accountable to stock holders, you don't do stuff just cause its cool unless it makes $.
underclock. even out of the factory, CPUs are basically overclocked for all intensive purposes. I know thats not what you all want to hear. But every advance that the chipmakers make that should be able to reduce the heat coming off a processor ends up getting put into running it faster instead. I grant its good for the MHz race, but the MHz race in the long run isn't really that good of an idea.
Silly me, I have just been buying dual cpu boxes instead. Then again, I only need that high of performance on servers, where I would never consider overclocking anyway. That may be why my dual p3/1.0 can actually get more work done than my single p4/2.5. That and p4's suck per cycle compared with p3s. But as you stated its the Mhz race, so the p4 'wins' even tho its slower.
And yea, this is just a freaking AC unit, albeit a fancier one, but still an AC. These have been around for many years. The guy even used a rather lame MB that couldn't juice the chip to top out levels. I guess he didn't check to see about the potential problems with any motherboards (which WAS documented in the forums), or check to see that the board he chose had a low voltage cap (which was documented in the specs). And when he had a problem, it took him a couple days to 'get around to checking the forums'.
Worst article. Ever. (almost)
Now, show me how to convert a dorm fridge to a cooler and still keep your beer cool, then thats a project I will try, purely for the cool factor.