Get a IDE RAID array, 4 100 GB IDE hard disks, and you got yourself 300 GB of space at ultra-fast speeds.:)
Then again, you lose the portability but the costs are probably much lower right now(a 100 GB IDE drive goes for about $300-$400 CDN now and a cheap RAID card could cost you $70-$150 CDN) and you probably have less chance for an error.
Not in my bloody lifetime (that is 70-90 years buddy).
Microsoft has to realise that maybe there are a few million Unix users who use Netscape/Moz/Opera (even though Opera along with Konq can mask themselves as Microsoft IE) because Microsoft only serves their browser to Mac OS X, HP-UX and Sun Solaris, and not BSD, Linux, or some other form of Unix.
I do use Linux as a desktop OS quite frequently and I'd rather use Netscape over Opera at times as I do not want to deal with banners and such, but since Microsoft has decided to use such monopolistic tactics (where is the DOJ right now?), that means I have use Opera or Konq.
Do we see car companies making it so you can only buy a certain brand of gasoline? No... so why do we need a company telling us what specific browser do we have to use?
As much as I hate to say it, it doesn't belong on the desktop. BeOS is a totally rewritten Operating System that has been arround since 1995, Linux is a Unix and Unix has been in existance since 1969, and Windows has been in existance since 1983. BeOS has no real strong-hold here, I have used it and liked it, but countless times did I find myself hunting down drivers for it instead of using the OS. With Linux, 90% of the hardware I have come across had drivers allready and the hardware that I came across while using Windows had virtually 100% compatablity.
BeOS may not die if released in Open-Source, but the problem is that there is allready enough Operating Systems out there and Be went in too quickly and too big.
It may live on in the Palm Market or other applications, but it isn't a server OS and it has no real chance of being a desktop OS. One good strong point is that a fair chunk of PC users detest Macintoshes for no real valid reason, my father is a good example, the BeOS GUI is Macish and therefore would be scounded upon.
Actually, this is a good truth. Linux is free, so in today's volatile economy it makes sense to use such an Operating System that only costs a download and maybe a burn to a CDR (that is like less than $1 for the OS technically).
If Staroffice can get better (and faster), it could do some damaging to Microsoft Office. Remember, if Word can kill Wordperfect, Staroffice can kill Office. Maybe KOffice could too, but I can't predict the future sadly. If I could, I'd be saying that Microsoft would be bankrupt in fifteen years.:P
This could introduce more online gaming to the younger crowd. Just imagine, you could be having something like a 45-90 ms ping on your NAN. I would welcome a NAN.
...on stopping these messengers. The problem is, if they're reporting the truth they're not comitting slander as Microsoft might put it. Microsoft does a good job on their products sometimes, but it is things like this that really show the incompetence in that company. Yes, I know every program out there probably has some sort of exploit, vulnerability, or bug, but it is up to the person or company that wrote the software (that is if the software is not open-source) to fix that bug. Bugs, exploits, and vulnerabilities should be reported because knowing Microsoft, if they found out they would do absolutely nothing.
Microsoft has two options here, release the source or fix their damn bugs themselves and stop crying. I wonder how cryptic the source would be?
Just remember, when you're driving you better not piss it off because if you piss it off well enough it may decide to take your life or injure you in some sort of way.
I can see that Microsoft has dug themselves into a hole where they will have to spend lots of money on rewriting some code to fix it. Yet they think that such a comment like this will stop people from writing future code that exploits the faults in their own software that they should fix in the first place. So what happens when you find a bug in Windows that erases your hard drives contents? Not report it and let people's hard disks get erased? I don't think so.
Wouldn't that slow down the computer since it has to convert the electrical signals into light?
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To add to what I am saying, another problem could be weight if you're holding it for long periods of time. But then again, you could just put it on your lap and still play it that way.
It seems the RIAA is probably running out of ideas
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I can bet that this is true because no real sane (then again this is the RIAA) group/company/organisation/etc would come to the point or level of Jeff K. unless it was absolutely necessary (with the exception of the government who could use this in espionage).
Again as I state every time I hear something along the lines of this, thank-god I live in Canada. Then again, our government is attempting to bring in something similar to the DCMA.
I don't think it would be too awkward to use...
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Looking at it and doing a little judging, it looks about the size of a standard keyboard. I took my keyboard and held it as if I were using that keyboard and it didn't feel awkward at all. The only drawback is having to put down your keyboard in order to type something in, but I guess there is no other alternative unless there are arrow keys on the keyboard that will allow movement and such.
This is a good move for them, even thought it would have been better if they selected the PS2 or the Gamecube in lieu of the Xbox. Sega has allways done a good job, IMHO, in the arcades and I hope the best for them because they did a pretty good job with their hardware in the past.
I am certain they have it on the list because they know somebody is going to ask why their Windows copy of Q3A doesn't work. Just saying download the *nix version isn't good enough sometimes.
First of all, Sun and Oracle are only trying to get their name out. Sure they know there is some profit to gain from this, but they can also test and stress their products with this and at the same time provide a system to the US people that works.
ID Cards should not be needed when purchasing goods, riding a bus, getting a taxi, or whatnot. ID Cards should be used for things like trains and airplanes, maybe boats too if you think about cruise ships. The only thing that should be on these cards is your picture, full name, birthday, and city of residence. It does not need your ethnic background or religion.
I am not American though, I am Canadian. If they introduce something similar to what is being introduced into the United States, I'd glady go along with it.
This would be a benefit to my brother's track club as instead of having to assemble and store clunky hard shell speakers, we can inflate these speakers and I doubt they'd take very much space.
It would be a benefit to me too as I am usually the one who has to set up such things.
SPARC support in the 2.4.x kernel series hasn't been up to snuff, but eventually the hardware will be supported.
I had a similar issue with a Macintosh LC II (Motorola 68030 processor). It would not run a 2.2.13 kernel even though it was said it could, I just upgraded the kernel to 2.2.19 and it worked just fine.
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Isn't Connexant a subsiderary of Hewlett Packard? If so, then why wouldn't they release their source since HP is a big supporter of Unix?
This is nice to hear because I do have a winmodem on a machine that runs Linux. It doesn't use the MWAVE chip, it uses the Connexant chip, but if one Winmodem chip driver allready exists, then I look forward to future kernels supporting it.
It will also give me a reason to upgrade to kernel 2.4 as I am still using 2.2.19:)
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Get a IDE RAID array, 4 100 GB IDE hard disks, and you got yourself 300 GB of space at ultra-fast speeds. :)
:)
Then again, you lose the portability but the costs are probably much lower right now(a 100 GB IDE drive goes for about $300-$400 CDN now and a cheap RAID card could cost you $70-$150 CDN) and you probably have less chance for an error.
In any case, a 100 GB disc is pretty cool.
Not in my bloody lifetime (that is 70-90 years buddy).
Microsoft has to realise that maybe there are a few million Unix users who use Netscape/Moz/Opera (even though Opera along with Konq can mask themselves as Microsoft IE) because Microsoft only serves their browser to Mac OS X, HP-UX and Sun Solaris, and not BSD, Linux, or some other form of Unix.
I do use Linux as a desktop OS quite frequently and I'd rather use Netscape over Opera at times as I do not want to deal with banners and such, but since Microsoft has decided to use such monopolistic tactics (where is the DOJ right now?), that means I have use Opera or Konq.
Do we see car companies making it so you can only buy a certain brand of gasoline? No... so why do we need a company telling us what specific browser do we have to use?
Does it LSOD? ;)
It looks interesting, but I am not really buying it.
As much as I hate to say it, it doesn't belong on the desktop. BeOS is a totally rewritten Operating System that has been arround since 1995, Linux is a Unix and Unix has been in existance since 1969, and Windows has been in existance since 1983. BeOS has no real strong-hold here, I have used it and liked it, but countless times did I find myself hunting down drivers for it instead of using the OS. With Linux, 90% of the hardware I have come across had drivers allready and the hardware that I came across while using Windows had virtually 100% compatablity.
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BeOS may not die if released in Open-Source, but the problem is that there is allready enough Operating Systems out there and Be went in too quickly and too big.
It may live on in the Palm Market or other applications, but it isn't a server OS and it has no real chance of being a desktop OS. One good strong point is that a fair chunk of PC users detest Macintoshes for no real valid reason, my father is a good example, the BeOS GUI is Macish and therefore would be scounded upon.
Sorry Be.
Gimme your old Suns. :)
:P
Actually, this is a good truth. Linux is free, so in today's volatile economy it makes sense to use such an Operating System that only costs a download and maybe a burn to a CDR (that is like less than $1 for the OS technically).
If Staroffice can get better (and faster), it could do some damaging to Microsoft Office. Remember, if Word can kill Wordperfect, Staroffice can kill Office. Maybe KOffice could too, but I can't predict the future sadly. If I could, I'd be saying that Microsoft would be bankrupt in fifteen years.
Hate to say this to you buddy, but Canada is introducing its own version of DCMA in the next House of Commons hearing.
In fact, I believe it is October 25th that this hearing will start.
This could introduce more online gaming to the younger crowd. Just imagine, you could be having something like a 45-90 ms ping on your NAN. I would welcome a NAN.
...on stopping these messengers. The problem is, if they're reporting the truth they're not comitting slander as Microsoft might put it. Microsoft does a good job on their products sometimes, but it is things like this that really show the incompetence in that company. Yes, I know every program out there probably has some sort of exploit, vulnerability, or bug, but it is up to the person or company that wrote the software (that is if the software is not open-source) to fix that bug. Bugs, exploits, and vulnerabilities should be reported because knowing Microsoft, if they found out they would do absolutely nothing.
Microsoft has two options here, release the source or fix their damn bugs themselves and stop crying. I wonder how cryptic the source would be?
Just remember, when you're driving you better not piss it off because if you piss it off well enough it may decide to take your life or injure you in some sort of way.
:)
I wonder if this car can have PMS?
I can see that Microsoft has dug themselves into a hole where they will have to spend lots of money on rewriting some code to fix it. Yet they think that such a comment like this will stop people from writing future code that exploits the faults in their own software that they should fix in the first place. So what happens when you find a bug in Windows that erases your hard drives contents? Not report it and let people's hard disks get erased? I don't think so.
Wouldn't that slow down the computer since it has to convert the electrical signals into light?
To add to what I am saying, another problem could be weight if you're holding it for long periods of time. But then again, you could just put it on your lap and still play it that way.
I can bet that this is true because no real sane (then again this is the RIAA) group/company/organisation/etc would come to the point or level of Jeff K. unless it was absolutely necessary (with the exception of the government who could use this in espionage).
Again as I state every time I hear something along the lines of this, thank-god I live in Canada. Then again, our government is attempting to bring in something similar to the DCMA.
Looking at it and doing a little judging, it looks about the size of a standard keyboard. I took my keyboard and held it as if I were using that keyboard and it didn't feel awkward at all. The only drawback is having to put down your keyboard in order to type something in, but I guess there is no other alternative unless there are arrow keys on the keyboard that will allow movement and such.
This is a good move for them, even thought it would have been better if they selected the PS2 or the Gamecube in lieu of the Xbox. Sega has allways done a good job, IMHO, in the arcades and I hope the best for them because they did a pretty good job with their hardware in the past.
I am certain they have it on the list because they know somebody is going to ask why their Windows copy of Q3A doesn't work. Just saying download the *nix version isn't good enough sometimes.
Just a question, isn't nmap'n basically port scanning? If so, wouldn't that be a violation of your TOS?
This is not a flame or anything.
First of all, Sun and Oracle are only trying to get their name out. Sure they know there is some profit to gain from this, but they can also test and stress their products with this and at the same time provide a system to the US people that works.
ID Cards should not be needed when purchasing goods, riding a bus, getting a taxi, or whatnot. ID Cards should be used for things like trains and airplanes, maybe boats too if you think about cruise ships. The only thing that should be on these cards is your picture, full name, birthday, and city of residence. It does not need your ethnic background or religion.
I am not American though, I am Canadian. If they introduce something similar to what is being introduced into the United States, I'd glady go along with it.
This would be a benefit to my brother's track club as instead of having to assemble and store clunky hard shell speakers, we can inflate these speakers and I doubt they'd take very much space.
It would be a benefit to me too as I am usually the one who has to set up such things.
SPARC support in the 2.4.x kernel series hasn't been up to snuff, but eventually the hardware will be supported.
I had a similar issue with a Macintosh LC II (Motorola 68030 processor). It would not run a 2.2.13 kernel even though it was said it could, I just upgraded the kernel to 2.2.19 and it worked just fine.
Isn't Connexant a subsiderary of Hewlett Packard? If so, then why wouldn't they release their source since HP is a big supporter of Unix?
This is nice to hear because I do have a winmodem on a machine that runs Linux. It doesn't use the MWAVE chip, it uses the Connexant chip, but if one Winmodem chip driver allready exists, then I look forward to future kernels supporting it.
:)
It will also give me a reason to upgrade to kernel 2.4 as I am still using 2.2.19
Lets rewrite it so it can lessen the "idiot load".
Bricks > Mechano.
'nuff said.
Whenever Microsoft wants more money from it's OS.
Oh wait, according to them Internet Explorer is their kernel.