This is what the continual grind towards lower and lower prices has done. QC has gone - it's never coming back. Try to find some way to use machines to do rudimentary testing and analysis, there will never be a budget for a human to do it.
that's one way to keep the thing up - even though I'm modded as offtopic (correctly, I guess), I still think that it's important to note that an IIS box *is* holding up - and that's unusual. It's pertinent in the light of the linuxtoday discussion of java and IIS being a commodity "good enough" web server these days, compared to apache.
Interesting to note that an.asp site is surviving this quite successfully. I never thought I'd see the day IIS held up to the/. effect, but there it is...
Yay - I can finally log into wells fargo. I guess the bank folks figured that once they'd made banking available on the palm, they may as well allow mozilla in..... (and I'm guessing the "issues" got worked out with netscape).
starts up slow. renders quick. scrolls jerkily. icon is the same color as the standard windows desktop, so it disappears. typing in a url prompts you to "search netscape". this isn't worse than the competition, but doesn't need to be in there.
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...that the Gimp cannot" Boy there's an understatement for you. How about "save for web", for one? I like GIMP, but I use ImageMagick more. If I was stuck, I'd use the GIMP, and am sure I could get good work out of it - it's not been slow for me on X, but I had no qualms about forking over the cash for Photoshop. Nor AutoCAD, for that matter - hey - some proprietary software *is* good, and *is* worth the money.
The only UPS model(s) with any kind of intelligent monitoring are the Smart UPS series. But they don't give any indication of power consumption, only % load.
I wonder if a casual reader noticed this connection: Microsoft's Chicago-based Midwest district office, which covers Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, is the tech giant's biggest moneymaker in the country----- More seriously, in Chicago we do seem to have an inferiority complex about our place in the tech world. Rankings frequently put us toward the bottom among major cities in terms of our tech presence----- So - Chicago is the lowest rated tech city, yet the highest rated user of Microsoft products!
I had to go back to W2K just to get the following: access, project, photoshop (sorry, but gimp just doesn't cut it yet), autocad, frontpage, soundforge, viavoice... the list goes on and on. I found Linux a perfectly workable desktop (except for SANE - those guys need to fire up a Mac, and maybe they'll rename their app), but it was missing some fundamental pieces.
We've been waiting for this one - the inflection point in the free software movement, all the arguments against it - "no support", "no direction", "no major applications", "no high level hardware installs" - have fallen by the wayside. Now, we get to the core, the fundamental premise - that software should have freedoms explicitly tied to it. Businesses, even Microsoft, have gladly used the BSD licensed code to their financial gain, but the GPL puts it right back onto them - they CAN'T use this stuff without the so-called "viral" effect. And boy does that burn their greedy little fingers! Commercial software houses I say unto you - deliver the goods, or die! The quality of free software is finally coming back to haunt you! Despite their recent comments, Microsoft have really clued into this - the reliability and managability improvements in W2K read like a grocery list of tech. supports complaints, but it's still not quite enough to stop the criticism's - I have still had more crashes (non fatal, but some that couldn't be recovered at the console) in 6 months on one hardware certified box, than on all my Linux servers and workstations combined in the last 2 years. Ha Ha!
I program in LISP (CAD systems) and find it a useful language, but this article, and the essay fail to list any technical detail on just what the advantage was. The essay claims how they could do functions that their competition couldn't, but declines to state what those functions were. It also gives no detail on what it was that their competition did, that they were able to re-create so rapidly. In fact, it dangles the carrot of "it's basically macros", but then dismisses it along the lines of "but it's too complicated to explain". Bah. File under "unsubstantiated".
Microsoft have always hedged their bets and got into every market possible. Think MSNBC. They have a healthy opinion of the future (i.e. they realize that it may go in an area that's unanticipated). How you rate their aggressiveness in pursuing it is determined by your philosophy.
You had this feeble excuse last time your box got thrashed by/. Once is excusable, give the nature, but this time around? Come on! Didn't you throw a few bucks at Sun after the last round of humiliation?
Though BeOS has large filesystem capability, will it's reduced driver base allow it to run on systems that have this capacity. Say, for example a Compaq or HP, or IBM Intel server with multi-Gb RAID - will BeOS support the SCSI adapters (i.e. Symbios etc.) that are needed to run the arrays?
If you hoof on over to the arsdigita discussion page, linked in the story summary, you can read where Phil is going - back to his R&D roots. I've been reading the recent voice-xml stuff from aD, and I think, once again, he's bang on the money. (or maybe that's the wrong phrase now, but he's, as usual, on target to something that is fundamentally correct and insightful). I look forward to the next incarnation of PG.
You think 15 days of testing is enough? The kernel can be "late" when the deadline is a packaged distribution. Supporting a "known configuration" kernel is not "corporate idiocy", it's the way support mechanisms work. Try swapping out the fuel injection on your car, and then go back to the mfr to ask them to tune it.
You gotta love the way bero always posts "from the horses mouth". On a related note, you guys have yet to release 1.3.19 Apache with all the related rpm's. Is that in there this time? And if I don't want to use RH Network, is there still ftp downloads available? I'd rather do my own patching, thanks very much.
How could you listen to 20 mp3's at the same time? Are you talking about instances of the player? If you're talking about queuing mp3's, I do that with WMP and select around 50 at a time. What a freakin' nonsensical argument. I've run BeOS, and couldn't find anything useful to do with it, even with it's mythical "media OS" title. I understand the driver issues, and the application issues, but frankly, once you take those away, there ain't much left to BeOS.
Your problem is that your page file is too small. Increase it to several hundred Mb. The system that ran for 6 months had a 1Gb pagefile. You can successfully run for long periods with at least 3-500Mb. Anything less gives you this symptom. I don't know why....
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You are on the right course. It's a JIHAD.
Who better to comment on this tragedy, on /., than Katz. Amen, brother.
That would do it.
This is what the continual grind towards lower and lower prices has done. QC has gone - it's never coming back. Try to find some way to use machines to do rudimentary testing and analysis, there will never be a budget for a human to do it.
that's one way to keep the thing up - even though I'm modded as offtopic (correctly, I guess), I still think that it's important to note that an IIS box *is* holding up - and that's unusual. It's pertinent in the light of the linuxtoday discussion of java and IIS being a commodity "good enough" web server these days, compared to apache.
Interesting to note that an .asp site is surviving this quite successfully. I never thought I'd see the day IIS held up to the /. effect, but there it is...
What we really need, is some hard cover plastic binders to keep all the old issues in. And then some spiffy new ones for the new issues.
All I saw was a canned list of search engines that I never use. Sure would be nice to put in google, or excite, or even yahoo.
Yay - I can finally log into wells fargo. I guess the bank folks figured that once they'd made banking available on the palm, they may as well allow mozilla in ..... (and I'm guessing the "issues" got worked out with netscape).
starts up slow. renders quick. scrolls jerkily. icon is the same color as the standard windows desktop, so it disappears. typing in a url prompts you to "search netscape". this isn't worse than the competition, but doesn't need to be in there.
...that the Gimp cannot" Boy there's an understatement for you. How about "save for web", for one? I like GIMP, but I use ImageMagick more. If I was stuck, I'd use the GIMP, and am sure I could get good work out of it - it's not been slow for me on X, but I had no qualms about forking over the cash for Photoshop. Nor AutoCAD, for that matter - hey - some proprietary software *is* good, and *is* worth the money.
The only UPS model(s) with any kind of intelligent monitoring are the Smart UPS series. But they don't give any indication of power consumption, only % load.
I wonder if a casual reader noticed this connection:
Microsoft's Chicago-based Midwest district office, which covers Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, is the tech giant's biggest moneymaker in the country-----
More seriously, in Chicago we do seem to have an inferiority complex about our place in the tech world. Rankings frequently put us toward the bottom among major cities in terms of our tech presence-----
So - Chicago is the lowest rated tech city, yet the highest rated user of Microsoft products!
I had to go back to W2K just to get the following: access, project, photoshop (sorry, but gimp just doesn't cut it yet), autocad, frontpage, soundforge, viavoice... the list goes on and on. I found Linux a perfectly workable desktop (except for SANE - those guys need to fire up a Mac, and maybe they'll rename their app), but it was missing some fundamental pieces.
We've been waiting for this one - the inflection point in the free software movement, all the arguments against it - "no support", "no direction", "no major applications", "no high level hardware installs" - have fallen by the wayside. Now, we get to the core, the fundamental premise - that software should have freedoms explicitly tied to it. Businesses, even Microsoft, have gladly used the BSD licensed code to their financial gain, but the GPL puts it right back onto them - they CAN'T use this stuff without the so-called "viral" effect. And boy does that burn their greedy little fingers! Commercial software houses I say unto you - deliver the goods, or die! The quality of free software is finally coming back to haunt you! Despite their recent comments, Microsoft have really clued into this - the reliability and managability improvements in W2K read like a grocery list of tech. supports complaints, but it's still not quite enough to stop the criticism's - I have still had more crashes (non fatal, but some that couldn't be recovered at the console) in 6 months on one hardware certified box, than on all my Linux servers and workstations combined in the last 2 years. Ha Ha!
I program in LISP (CAD systems) and find it a useful language, but this article, and the essay fail to list any technical detail on just what the advantage was. The essay claims how they could do functions that their competition couldn't, but declines to state what those functions were. It also gives no detail on what it was that their competition did, that they were able to re-create so rapidly. In fact, it dangles the carrot of "it's basically macros", but then dismisses it along the lines of "but it's too complicated to explain". Bah. File under "unsubstantiated".
Microsoft have always hedged their bets and got into every market possible. Think MSNBC. They have a healthy opinion of the future (i.e. they realize that it may go in an area that's unanticipated). How you rate their aggressiveness in pursuing it is determined by your philosophy.
You had this feeble excuse last time your box got thrashed by /. Once is excusable, give the nature, but this time around? Come on! Didn't you throw a few bucks at Sun after the last round of humiliation?
Though BeOS has large filesystem capability, will it's reduced driver base allow it to run on systems that have this capacity. Say, for example a Compaq or HP, or IBM Intel server with multi-Gb RAID - will BeOS support the SCSI adapters (i.e. Symbios etc.) that are needed to run the arrays?
If you hoof on over to the arsdigita discussion page, linked in the story summary, you can read where Phil is going - back to his R&D roots. I've been reading the recent voice-xml stuff from aD, and I think, once again, he's bang on the money. (or maybe that's the wrong phrase now, but he's, as usual, on target to something that is fundamentally correct and insightful). I look forward to the next incarnation of PG.
.... is are Phil and Eve still an "item" ? He's in London, she's back at work. Yikes!
You think 15 days of testing is enough? The kernel can be "late" when the deadline is a packaged distribution. Supporting a "known configuration" kernel is not "corporate idiocy", it's the way support mechanisms work. Try swapping out the fuel injection on your car, and then go back to the mfr to ask them to tune it.
You gotta love the way bero always posts "from the horses mouth". On a related note, you guys have yet to release 1.3.19 Apache with all the related rpm's. Is that in there this time? And if I don't want to use RH Network, is there still ftp downloads available? I'd rather do my own patching, thanks very much.
How could you listen to 20 mp3's at the same time? Are you talking about instances of the player? If you're talking about queuing mp3's, I do that with WMP and select around 50 at a time. What a freakin' nonsensical argument. I've run BeOS, and couldn't find anything useful to do with it, even with it's mythical "media OS" title. I understand the driver issues, and the application issues, but frankly, once you take those away, there ain't much left to BeOS.
Your problem is that your page file is too small. Increase it to several hundred Mb. The system that ran for 6 months had a 1Gb pagefile. You can successfully run for long periods with at least 3-500Mb. Anything less gives you this symptom. I don't know why....