Yikes. Looking at the article, it gives the impression that the big iron is a fast box. While they have godlike IO, the actual CPU speed is quite disappointing. Wrong kit to calculate primes, right tool for a webserver. More and more they are pitching this for things that require very little CPU power - replacing a rack (or two) of x86 hardware doing nothing harder than DNS, mail, etc. Depends on what you are doing, but I know I was disappointed... (unless you are just moving stuff around)
Adblock lets you nuke things at the domain level. I have *.falkag.*, *.tacoda.*, and *.google-analytics.* in my filter list mostly due to other sites. You can also use your wildcards to take out js files as well (and a mess of other stuff if you are clever with your regex) if there is something on the domain you want to see.
No, because if you are Democrat, you aren't going to vote for a Republican in order to vote against the blacklisted politician. And if you are a Republican, you are not going to vote for a Democrat. Either way you will make some excuse why it is OK to vote for the pro-DRM candidate ("Well, I gotta vote for Fienstien or otherwise the Republicans will win, and we can't let that!").
Or, just not vote. It is not like it matters anymore unless you have lobby money. (my take at this point)
Hell, I'm a republican - just wish Bush and many others were as well. Judging most of the actions of most of the republican incumbents in office, all branches (as well as State) seem to forget what "small government" is all about.... Why would the other side be any different?
The irony is the 754 will outlive the 939 since that is what the pin count the mobile CPU's use. Go figure. If things go like the last time, the AM2 and 939's will be priced about the same with a small performance lead for the latest greatest. As time goes on, the 5G+ whatever will be offered for the 939, but it will cost at least one limb more than the AM2 version.
A couple folks mentioned VLC, which is half of the fight. Lets you skip the ads, fbi warnings, etc. The killer combo is with DVDShrink (http://mrbass.org/dvdshrink). It removes macrovision, the no-skip flag, and also lets you just rip the movie without any of the extra stuff direct to HDD. Point VLC to the VIDEO_TS directory on a disk (or network) and the kids have instant movie, you never buy a third copy of Toy Story again. (You can also encode in something more compressed than MP2, but I've got the disk space for my little one's collection).
I have installed and operated several production Oracle db's on both RedHat and SuSE. SuSE is by far superior for Oracle. SuSE supports Oracle much better than RedHat does. It's much easier to install Oracle on SuSE, and SuSE has a very nice mailing list for Oracle dba's, with moderators from both companies.
Not only that, but SuSE is a much better platform for DB2 as well. Most of the IBM systems I've worked with are almost always SuSE SLES, even though RH was an option. If nothing else, they could mess up some of the x, z, and i Linux loving on the database side with the buy.
Everyone was out on a hot date, or getting ready for the celebration of Christ's resurection. This is Slashdot after all.
Same thing we do every April 15th, Pinky... try to get our taxes done on time. Not sure if I'd call it a celebration. I actually was reading the tax code as 'the player' rather than 'the payer' as I slogged through schedule D. Sure sign of AD&D growing up...
thats why I've already started giving away some of my software for free with support. By signing a support agreement, my tools can be licensed for use for free by your company... I'm not selling them, you can't tax them.
Be very careful here. The worst case scenario is they look at what you did as services rather than product and hand you a 1099 that gets taxed as income. That is a substantially higher amount when the tax man comes for you.
In my youth I helped out a former boss who jumped companies. He needed a high-end CAD station, which at the time was about 4K work of parts and a few hours setup. The company turned around and sent me a 1099 for my troubles for the full amount, rather than sales tax for the machine and a 1099 for the labor. I was lucky as we reworked the billing.
Taxes are something you pass to the customer and then may in. Here in Minnesota (land of 10k taxes), if you buy something on-line from another state, you are supposed to pay 'use' tax - but the customer gets to sort that part. My beef is if I sell something that can be delivered over the net, I now need to figure out what/if/how I have to tax the customer. Hard for a one guy and his dog style operations.
Aero to be unavailable to existing users. Seriously. I think one of the major reasons they pushed Vista back is there were just not enough HDMI compliant monitors out there. For most of the world, the CRT's and most of the LCD's wont support it as they don't provide the end-to-end encryption Vista demands if you want to see the high res video, including the Aero theme.
I'd take the opposite stance. Alienware would ship with 'best of breed' components that were off the shelf stuff. One of the first bits of cursing I heard from our IT guys was when they replaced a PSU, only to find that the Dell connector *looks and fit* like a standard ATX power, but was pinned in such a way to let the magic/smoke out of the board when they plugged in something else. Most gamers at least think they might upgrade components... Dell positioned itself as someone who could give you kit that was the same and interchangeable (within the same Dell part numbers), which is nice for office orders but not a gamer.
India is much more efficient at programming (and many other tech jobs)... perhaps one reason is that they use Linux and don't have to deal with Windoze.
The reason people were all hot and bothered to farm out the development costs to India is the manpower cost much less. In the New Delhi area, a seasoned Java developer would make about $20 a day. If I can write up a spec in the US or UK and have someone implement it for pennies on the dollar (or sterling), that may we worth the bother of outsourcing it.
The irony is as the development shops demand a larger chunk of the pie, people outsourcing start to look elsewhere as the implementation stops being such a good deal. Even in India, some of the cities in the Southern portion of the country are the new 'Seattle'. So now we see the new 'cheap' shops springing up in other locations. Problem is, China and some of the Eastern European countries are pitching cheap labor as well.
It is not that India is smarter, more efficient, or better at 'grunt work' coding - they just have a much lower cost of living. When they ship the same code in the same time as someone who's cost of living is several orders of magnitude higher it figures the cost to the requestor should be less while the folks that make it should have better margins. I would not sell you my weekend for $200, but others in the world would jump on that.
They are probably embracing Windows faster than ever too.
Not if they are paying for it... The problem is Microsoft more or less took care of the casual 'easy' piracy with the Software Activation / hardware fingerprinting they started with WinXP and later OS. Yes, there are cracks out there, but for the most part Microsoft is finally making it darn inconvenient to use a bootleg copy of their kit.
I spent a few months in India last year and probably will spend another couple this year. Anything produced domestically was dirt cheap, but imports were more or less the same as what I was seeing in the US. Difference was the wages paid to the developers was shockingly low (as was the cost of living). I was thinking I could get an ipod for cheap - but they were more than what I could get it for in the States! Licensing costs for most US or European software, and this includes Windows, would be a sizable portion of expenditures for a dev shop if they are legit. I'm not saying they would pay for RHEL or SLES either, but with Linux you don't have the activation issues.
Now if they offered a copy of Windows that was priced to match what most software folks would pay in rupees, I would be the first to try to buy an import version. (Already see this in games) English is the national language after all...
The other 3 items are now listed here in all their glory:// ,/* , and */
That must be valuable SCO IP. As soon as I removed all//,/*, and */ references from the code, and most code will not compile anymore. Fortunately, it would seem my coworkers are not using any of this infringing IP.
5M? Ubisoft sold a lot more kit than that. What is the damage going to be - 5$ off Splinter Cell Double Agent for us, 4M to the lawyers? Would be nice to see some of these machine horking protection schemes get held to the same 'criminal' behavior like deleting files or defacing websites...
Now, look at the demographics of WHO goes to the movies....
Notice something? Us "Old Farts" are NOT the target audience
True. Course most of the younger demographic don't have home theaters (always exceptions), so the losses should be minimal if that were true... If DVD / home theaters are having financial impact, the theaters look to be complaining that the older market segment no longer provides them revenue. Use to be a home theater was no match for a real theater. The tables have turned, IMHO, and I believe those who can afford the experience would much prefer to do it at home.
It works like this: You find a nice girl, you go to a movie, you get dinner at a restaurant down the road from the theater, you chat about the film... et cetera.
All about optimizations. : You find a nice girl, you get dinner at a restaurant down the road, you watch the movie from the home theater, you chat about the film... et cetera. As a bonus, you don't have anyone kicking your seat, keying your car, and you can enjoy a nice bottle of wine with the movie. The crowds might be nice for a first date, but for an old dog like me (who are still dating my bride of 12 years), home theater is the way to go.
He had in his bedroom a video, on a computer hard drive, showing how to make a car bomb.
He possessed a video, on a hard drive, showing a number of places in Washington DC and including a CRBN (chemical, radiological, biological and nuclear) vehicle.
Before October 31 this year he, with Mughal and others, conspired together to murder a person unknown.
He "unlawfully and maliciously" conspired together with Mughal and others to cause an explosion of a nature likely to endanger life in the United Kingdom
He conspired to dishonestly obtain property from credit cards belonging to others
While I agree this guy looks like trouble as you continued on with the latter points, I think back to how many teens I knew who had a copy of the Anarchist Cookbook (and others along the same line of thought). Granted, most were more in pursuit of a higher power potato gun or advanced model rocketry, but... dang... holding up he had 'naughty' information on a HDD and he conspired to kill someone? The information itself is pretty mundane compared to the rest of the list. Hate for the powers that be to view everyone who is digging through the stacks trying to figure out the recipes for 1950's style solid rocket fuel as a terrorist candidate.
NVidia may be pro Linux, but not open source.
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One thing worth pointing out is NVidia has been pretty good producing Linux drivers for most of the stuff they put out. It started with the video cards, but as they moved to chipsets they kept it up for all the bits on the chipset/mainboard as well. The place that people find fault is they release the drivers as binary rather than source form, and make it exceptionally difficult to roll your own as they don't release any under the cover info. They say it is partly due to licensing on their side, partly to keep the competition in the dark.
Now for me, I use the OS as a development platform. I don't expect source for any Win32 driver I use nor do I care if I have source for Linux or Solaris for that matter. As long as it works and does the job, I'm happy. I suspect I'm a pretty typical Linux user. The Linux developers would have problems with this - having to poke around a black box is a pain in the ass. My pain point comes with having to deal with them at install/update time. I also keep a small stack of Matrox Millennium (4M PCI) cards around because they do 'just work' without binary drivers. If they made them source based it would be more convenient for me, but NVidia has been pretty good keeping up with the multiple kernels and major distros. I'd call them pro Linux, but not open source.
Not your hard drive - you need to update your kernel. Slack and Fedora may have it in there by default. SuSE will give you the same issue if you don't.
ITX is nothing more than a form factor. Usually the form factors dictate how the board mounts the chassis, how things get cooled, and how it gets power. Lots of standards - btx, at, etc... this is juts another.
Take an ATX case, look at the four mounting holes and you have how the board screws into the case - more or less ITX in a nutshell. ITX is just a bit larger than a square built out of RAM sticks. Bog standard ATX power supply, keyboard, mouse, and other ports in the same position as ATX, and does not make any assumptions about the power source being able to direct air to where the CPU should lay out. The rest of the bits are optional - some have floppy connectors, some don't.
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Yikes. Looking at the article, it gives the impression that the big iron is a fast box. While they have godlike IO, the actual CPU speed is quite disappointing. Wrong kit to calculate primes, right tool for a webserver. More and more they are pitching this for things that require very little CPU power - replacing a rack (or two) of x86 hardware doing nothing harder than DNS, mail, etc. Depends on what you are doing, but I know I was disappointed... (unless you are just moving stuff around)
Adblock lets you nuke things at the domain level. I have *.falkag.*, *.tacoda.*, and *.google-analytics.* in my filter list mostly due to other sites. You can also use your wildcards to take out js files as well (and a mess of other stuff if you are clever with your regex) if there is something on the domain you want to see.
No, because if you are Democrat, you aren't going to vote for a Republican in order to vote against the blacklisted politician. And if you are a Republican, you are not going to vote for a Democrat. Either way you will make some excuse why it is OK to vote for the pro-DRM candidate ("Well, I gotta vote for Fienstien or otherwise the Republicans will win, and we can't let that!").
Or, just not vote. It is not like it matters anymore unless you have lobby money. (my take at this point)
Hell, I'm a republican - just wish Bush and many others were as well. Judging most of the actions of most of the republican incumbents in office, all branches (as well as State) seem to forget what "small government" is all about.... Why would the other side be any different?
The irony is the 754 will outlive the 939 since that is what the pin count the mobile CPU's use. Go figure. If things go like the last time, the AM2 and 939's will be priced about the same with a small performance lead for the latest greatest. As time goes on, the 5G+ whatever will be offered for the 939, but it will cost at least one limb more than the AM2 version.
As a Dad, I hear you.
A couple folks mentioned VLC, which is half of the fight. Lets you skip the ads, fbi warnings, etc. The killer combo is with DVDShrink (http://mrbass.org/dvdshrink). It removes macrovision, the no-skip flag, and also lets you just rip the movie without any of the extra stuff direct to HDD. Point VLC to the VIDEO_TS directory on a disk (or network) and the kids have instant movie, you never buy a third copy of Toy Story again. (You can also encode in something more compressed than MP2, but I've got the disk space for my little one's collection).
I have installed and operated several production Oracle db's on both RedHat and SuSE. SuSE is by far superior for Oracle. SuSE supports Oracle much better than RedHat does. It's much easier to install Oracle on SuSE, and SuSE has a very nice mailing list for Oracle dba's, with moderators from both companies.
Not only that, but SuSE is a much better platform for DB2 as well. Most of the IBM systems I've worked with are almost always SuSE SLES, even though RH was an option. If nothing else, they could mess up some of the x, z, and i Linux loving on the database side with the buy.
The next video player I buy will be one that obeys *me* and not the *disc*.
The software player VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) will let you do that with DVD's. A godsend if you have kids and disney media.
Everyone was out on a hot date, or getting ready for the celebration of Christ's resurection. This is Slashdot after all.
Same thing we do every April 15th, Pinky... try to get our taxes done on time. Not sure if I'd call it a celebration. I actually was reading the tax code as 'the player' rather than 'the payer' as I slogged through schedule D. Sure sign of AD&D growing up...
And to play devil's advocate, this is exactly the reason to log as root. You sudo and hork something up, they can tell exactly who did it...
And to play devil's advocate, this is exactly the reason to log as root. You sudo and hork something up, they can tell exactly who did it... (grin)
thats why I've already started giving away some of my software for free with support. By signing a support agreement, my tools can be licensed for use for free by your company... I'm not selling them, you can't tax them.
Be very careful here. The worst case scenario is they look at what you did as services rather than product and hand you a 1099 that gets taxed as income. That is a substantially higher amount when the tax man comes for you.
In my youth I helped out a former boss who jumped companies. He needed a high-end CAD station, which at the time was about 4K work of parts and a few hours setup. The company turned around and sent me a 1099 for my troubles for the full amount, rather than sales tax for the machine and a 1099 for the labor. I was lucky as we reworked the billing.
Taxes are something you pass to the customer and then may in. Here in Minnesota (land of 10k taxes), if you buy something on-line from another state, you are supposed to pay 'use' tax - but the customer gets to sort that part. My beef is if I sell something that can be delivered over the net, I now need to figure out what/if/how I have to tax the customer. Hard for a one guy and his dog style operations.
Aero to be unavailable to existing users. Seriously. I think one of the major reasons they pushed Vista back is there were just not enough HDMI compliant monitors out there. For most of the world, the CRT's and most of the LCD's wont support it as they don't provide the end-to-end encryption Vista demands if you want to see the high res video, including the Aero theme.
I'd take the opposite stance. Alienware would ship with 'best of breed' components that were off the shelf stuff. One of the first bits of cursing I heard from our IT guys was when they replaced a PSU, only to find that the Dell connector *looks and fit* like a standard ATX power, but was pinned in such a way to let the magic/smoke out of the board when they plugged in something else. Most gamers at least think they might upgrade components... Dell positioned itself as someone who could give you kit that was the same and interchangeable (within the same Dell part numbers), which is nice for office orders but not a gamer.
India is much more efficient at programming (and many other tech jobs)... perhaps one reason is that they use Linux and don't have to deal with Windoze.
The reason people were all hot and bothered to farm out the development costs to India is the manpower cost much less. In the New Delhi area, a seasoned Java developer would make about $20 a day. If I can write up a spec in the US or UK and have someone implement it for pennies on the dollar (or sterling), that may we worth the bother of outsourcing it.
The irony is as the development shops demand a larger chunk of the pie, people outsourcing start to look elsewhere as the implementation stops being such a good deal. Even in India, some of the cities in the Southern portion of the country are the new 'Seattle'. So now we see the new 'cheap' shops springing up in other locations. Problem is, China and some of the Eastern European countries are pitching cheap labor as well.
It is not that India is smarter, more efficient, or better at 'grunt work' coding - they just have a much lower cost of living. When they ship the same code in the same time as someone who's cost of living is several orders of magnitude higher it figures the cost to the requestor should be less while the folks that make it should have better margins. I would not sell you my weekend for $200, but others in the world would jump on that.
They are probably embracing Windows faster than ever too.
Not if they are paying for it... The problem is Microsoft more or less took care of the casual 'easy' piracy with the Software Activation / hardware fingerprinting they started with WinXP and later OS. Yes, there are cracks out there, but for the most part Microsoft is finally making it darn inconvenient to use a bootleg copy of their kit.
I spent a few months in India last year and probably will spend another couple this year. Anything produced domestically was dirt cheap, but imports were more or less the same as what I was seeing in the US. Difference was the wages paid to the developers was shockingly low (as was the cost of living). I was thinking I could get an ipod for cheap - but they were more than what I could get it for in the States! Licensing costs for most US or European software, and this includes Windows, would be a sizable portion of expenditures for a dev shop if they are legit. I'm not saying they would pay for RHEL or SLES either, but with Linux you don't have the activation issues.
Now if they offered a copy of Windows that was priced to match what most software folks would pay in rupees, I would be the first to try to buy an import version. (Already see this in games) English is the national language after all...
Heh. I'd be game for older games to work with current hardware. My little one has a mess of older games that don't want to run on anything but Win98.
The other 3 items are now listed here in all their glory:
That must be valuable SCO IP. As soon as I removed all
5M? Ubisoft sold a lot more kit than that. What is the damage going to be - 5$ off Splinter Cell Double Agent for us, 4M to the lawyers? Would be nice to see some of these machine horking protection schemes get held to the same 'criminal' behavior like deleting files or defacing websites...
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Curre ntVersion/Explorer/Advanced, create DWORD Value 'EnableBalloonTips' and set it to 0
Should nuke all the little bastereds. _test_ first. I'm pretty sure that was it. It breaks, you get to keep both pieces...
The second thing I'd like to do is disable those stupid XP security warnings the poster talks about.
Download the PowerToy "TweakUI" from Microsoft, uncheck "Enable balloon tips" on the "Taskbar" option.
Now, look at the demographics of WHO goes to the movies....
Notice something? Us "Old Farts" are NOT the target audience
True. Course most of the younger demographic don't have home theaters (always exceptions), so the losses should be minimal if that were true... If DVD / home theaters are having financial impact, the theaters look to be complaining that the older market segment no longer provides them revenue. Use to be a home theater was no match for a real theater. The tables have turned, IMHO, and I believe those who can afford the experience would much prefer to do it at home.
It works like this: You find a nice girl, you go to a movie, you get dinner at a restaurant down the road from the theater, you chat about the film ... et cetera.
... et cetera. As a bonus, you don't have anyone kicking your seat, keying your car, and you can enjoy a nice bottle of wine with the movie. The crowds might be nice for a first date, but for an old dog like me (who are still dating my bride of 12 years), home theater is the way to go.
All about optimizations. : You find a nice girl, you get dinner at a restaurant down the road, you watch the movie from the home theater, you chat about the film
While I agree this guy looks like trouble as you continued on with the latter points, I think back to how many teens I knew who had a copy of the Anarchist Cookbook (and others along the same line of thought). Granted, most were more in pursuit of a higher power potato gun or advanced model rocketry, but... dang... holding up he had 'naughty' information on a HDD and he conspired to kill someone? The information itself is pretty mundane compared to the rest of the list. Hate for the powers that be to view everyone who is digging through the stacks trying to figure out the recipes for 1950's style solid rocket fuel as a terrorist candidate.
One thing worth pointing out is NVidia has been pretty good producing Linux drivers for most of the stuff they put out. It started with the video cards, but as they moved to chipsets they kept it up for all the bits on the chipset/mainboard as well. The place that people find fault is they release the drivers as binary rather than source form, and make it exceptionally difficult to roll your own as they don't release any under the cover info. They say it is partly due to licensing on their side, partly to keep the competition in the dark.
Now for me, I use the OS as a development platform. I don't expect source for any Win32 driver I use nor do I care if I have source for Linux or Solaris for that matter. As long as it works and does the job, I'm happy. I suspect I'm a pretty typical Linux user. The Linux developers would have problems with this - having to poke around a black box is a pain in the ass. My pain point comes with having to deal with them at install/update time. I also keep a small stack of Matrox Millennium (4M PCI) cards around because they do 'just work' without binary drivers. If they made them source based it would be more convenient for me, but NVidia has been pretty good keeping up with the multiple kernels and major distros. I'd call them pro Linux, but not open source.
Not your hard drive - you need to update your kernel. Slack and Fedora may have it in there by default. SuSE will give you the same issue if you don't.
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I wish that they said what "ITX" means.
ITX is nothing more than a form factor. Usually the form factors dictate how the board mounts the chassis, how things get cooled, and how it gets power. Lots of standards - btx, at, etc... this is juts another.
Take an ATX case, look at the four mounting holes and you have how the board screws into the case - more or less ITX in a nutshell. ITX is just a bit larger than a square built out of RAM sticks. Bog standard ATX power supply, keyboard, mouse, and other ports in the same position as ATX, and does not make any assumptions about the power source being able to direct air to where the CPU should lay out. The rest of the bits are optional - some have floppy connectors, some don't.