despite the onboard graphics, sound, usb, firewire, NIC, wireless, etc. I still see matrox and 3dlabs selling video cards, creative selling sound cards, 3Com selling NICs, and on, and on, and on...
fact is, since the hardware side is based on well documented, open standars (PCI, USB, Firewire, ethernet, etc.) and the level of interoperability is high, replacing the onboard stuff by add-on parts is as easy as opening the case and sloting a card or simply pluging in a serial device.
now, MS Office apps relies heavily on internet explorer to render HTML, even the controll pannel needs IE to work. wipe IE and all it's acompanying DLLs and the system breaks badly.
show me a way to fully replace IE as the system's defacto HTML renderer by gecko, KHTML or opera in such a way that every aplication that embeds a browser to display hypertext recognizes and accepts the alternatives and i won't mind with MS's bundles.
That's the whole point. iTunes essentially *is* your filesystem. Your standard tree-based filesystem is really poor for managing songs (quick, find that one Beatles song, oh, which album is it on again?).
on his directory structure all he need is
#find <mp3 directory> -iname "*beatles*"
and find will give him the list of beatles songs whith the directory structure prepended (which contains the album name).
in windows he can use , and to have the benefif of the windows indexing service for a fast search, follow this arcticle
a computer program with fixed rules will never be as smart or clever as a human nor will it fit all persons. i tried myself using a "jukebox" to manage my songs, but im back to a well organized sub-directory structure/manual, descriptive file naming/carefully created playlists. works much better tha any program i tried.
i used to run KDE 3.2 in a P-II toshiba notebook with only 128 MB and it ran fine, even with firefox open. with windowmaker i could even open firefox and a later openoffice 1.9.
all you need to do this is take some time to fine tune the interface. deactivate all eye candy, remove wallpapers, turn off all background apps ("services" in MS speak), adjust kernel parameters, et all.
in windows XP is possible to tune the interface this way in one go via "my computer" preferences. what MS should do is to put a "wizard" in the installation media or control pannel to do this automatically. KDE has this wizard and it runs everytime a new user logs in. it have a slidebar where the user adjusts for more performance or more eye-candy.
last time i had to change the DNS record for my domain and eNameco's system returned error (second time it happened) i decided to look for another registrar. after a week trying to unlock the domain without an answer to my tickets, i finally sent them an e-mail threatening legal action, with copies to ICANN and Texas state's general attorney.
a day later the domain was unlocked and i moved it.
it does wonders for the global anti-spam movement.
one of the reasons why spam exists is that it's _cheap_
with hundreds of suits on them the economics of spam turns backwards. it'll become more expensive to the spammers than what's worth.
of course, this is just one aspect. if MS adds decent filters to hotmail, outlook, exchange and such, it'll make even more dificult for spammers to get their way.
filters are simpler to implement without big $$$, but to launch 200+ law suits as a reinforcement on the war against spam... well it takes microsoft.
the parent post was about "efficiency", so i just proved that motorcicles are _less_ efficient by weight than cars. now, if you want to talk about whos more "economic", then of course its... diesel cars for short distances. longer distances (if youre lucky to live and work near a station) the best thing is the subway/metro.
in your post you mention school bus, semi, train... dunno in US. with their gas guzzling culture they may even use gasoline for massive vehicles, but here in brasil we use diesel for such things. its waaaay more efficient AND economical than gasoline. unfortunatelly our legislation only allows jeeps, SUVs and trucks to use diesel. for the rest of us theres alcohool (less efficient but more economical) and natural gas (even more economical than diesel) and not-so-good ol gasoline. some cars accept all three at the same time.
a decently adapted car can run on natural gas cheaper than a light motorcicle. a V6 ford ranger makes 250 km on R$ 30,00 of natural gas, a small 1.5l car will do the same distance with nearly R$ 15,00, while my motorcicle does only 200 km with the same money. PLUS: natural gas polution is negligible.
gotta love a country where a regular car can be fueled with 3 kinds of fuel AT THE SAME TIME (gasoline and alcohool mix in the tank + natural gas in the extra cilinders) ^_^
my 125cc honda XLR (check http://www.honda.com.br/ is a retired bike but they have a similar replacement) make 210km on 7 liters of gasoline, 30 km/l it weighs 110 kg (dry). with me + oil and fuel is about 185 kg. 30 km/l with a 12.5 hp engine at constant 80 km/h moving 180 kg, take note.
my statio wagon is a 1200 kg volkswagen parati with a 1800cc engine produces 90 hp and at 80 km/h it does... 12 km/l.
an engine 14 times bigger only needs twice the fuel to move a car 7 times the weight of the motorcicle.
things get worse as the motorcicle engine gets bigger. a honda CB-400 with a 400cc engine does 15 km/l a CBR-7500 spends more than my car.
with all due respect, $175k is less than an _HOUR_ billings for IBM. with $96.5 billion income last year: 96,500,000,000 / 365 = 264,383,561 / 24 = 11,015,981 / 60 = 183,599
at current prices IBM could buy the whole SCO with 6 hours worth of their income.
here in brasil cals from cell phone-to-cell phone are cheaper than calls from land line-to-cell phone, so many comapanies are ataching cell phones to their PBX sistems so any call to numbers starting with 7,8 or 9 (is mandatory that cell phones numbers begins with one of these digits) are routed through the mobiles. some say the cost savings pays the cost of the equipment really soon.
i'm not worried with computers controling planes. boeing an airbus have been doing this for over a decade. i start to worry when they begin outsorcing the development to india...
whay makes them think they have the right to notify anyone ?
some 3 months ago the ISP i used to work for here in brasil received a notification that someone in our network was downloading "exorcist - the begining", complete with IP address. happens that a simple "whois " returned the name of another ISP, with an IP address range in a neighbour AS (autonomous system. huge IP address ranges ISPs and network operator have). we simply had NOTHING to do with that.
lucky them they were in US. if they were here with the threatening tone of the e-mail we could sue them. threatening a person or a company on an empty basis or based on false information is (IIRC, IANAL) ilegal here.
they may not be a "technology powerhouse" as you say, but they they certainly are an oil powerhouse, and oil is pretty much the only thing george junior and his masters at haliburtun sees. plus, cháves is a dear friend of castro and lula, and brasil _IS_ a powerhouse in south american politics. if M$ allies or at least convinces haliburton to take a second look at the issue, they'll put junior on the move on M$ behalf.
venezuela moving fast to open source have a great potential to influence lula's government ro speed up in the same direction. we're alreadi inclined to do this, venezuela may be just the push we need.
sometimes it pays off voting for a socialist. lula's screwing up in many things, but if he follows chávez in this issue, my vote would've not been wasted.
since when venezuela is a dictatorship ? just because president hugo chávez is socialist ?
don't forget that he defeated the right wing in a failed atempt of a coup and was kept in power after winning a recall poll. he has twice the legitimacy as your warrior president, george junior.
plus, a "decree" is not just a tool for dictators. other full fledged democracies have the so called "decree". assume the word to be little more than a regulation signed by the president of a democratic nation exerting the powers granted to him/her by the constitution. nothing that a rule from congress or from the supreme court can't overturn.
in debian Tbird and Ffox comes each with their own launch scripts that try to detect if another mozilla family member is running. if one is runnig you can't launch the other. so if i'm reading e-mail i can't launch URL from Tbird and if i'm browsing i cant read e-mail...
plus, the suite already have a (primitive) calendar that is quite handy sometimes.
i received a spam in my gmail spam box about a product that makes women "instantly horny"... yeah, right...
it did have an "unsubscribe" link, so i clicked through and entered a brand new, created just for this address there. the link, for those willing to try is http://protesilaos.info/3ea2a2675e2fe363b4ffa9b7c/ DJEum9tXL.html
the full mozilla suite has an option to not only block external images in messages, but to also sanitize _ALL_ html messages, displaying them as plain text. defeats all web bugs and iframes embeded in spam messages. some of them display as empty messages.
open mozilla's mail and select View/Message Body As. you have 3 options. "original html" (all web bugs and iframes. java script still disabled), "simple html" (disarms and defangs most bugs and tricks while keeping some formating) and "plain text" (only links are kept. formating is hosed but all bugs and images are cleaned).
"plain text" is a nice option if you're paranoid. but in this case you're probably using mutt or pine anyway, so why boter ?
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despite the onboard graphics, sound, usb, firewire, NIC, wireless, etc. I still see matrox and 3dlabs selling video cards, creative selling sound cards, 3Com selling NICs, and on, and on, and on...
fact is, since the hardware side is based on well documented, open standars (PCI, USB, Firewire, ethernet, etc.) and the level of interoperability is high, replacing the onboard stuff by add-on parts is as easy as opening the case and sloting a card or simply pluging in a serial device.
now, MS Office apps relies heavily on internet explorer to render HTML, even the controll pannel needs IE to work. wipe IE and all it's acompanying DLLs and the system breaks badly.
show me a way to fully replace IE as the system's defacto HTML renderer by gecko, KHTML or opera in such a way that every aplication that embeds a browser to display hypertext recognizes and accepts the alternatives and i won't mind with MS's bundles.
That's the whole point. iTunes essentially *is* your filesystem. Your standard tree-based filesystem is really poor for managing songs (quick, find that one Beatles song, oh, which album is it on again?).
on his directory structure all he need is
#find <mp3 directory> -iname "*beatles*"
and find will give him the list of beatles songs whith the directory structure prepended (which contains the album name).
in windows he can use , and to have the benefif of the windows indexing service for a fast search, follow this arcticle
a computer program with fixed rules will never be as smart or clever as a human nor will it fit all persons. i tried myself using a "jukebox" to manage my songs, but im back to a well organized sub-directory structure/manual, descriptive file naming/carefully created playlists. works much better tha any program i tried.
is this what youre looking for ?
the site also have links to several other VR software and hardware makers, mostly for professional aplications.
i used to run KDE 3.2 in a P-II toshiba notebook with only 128 MB and it ran fine, even with firefox open. with windowmaker i could even open firefox and a later openoffice 1.9.
all you need to do this is take some time to fine tune the interface. deactivate all eye candy, remove wallpapers, turn off all background apps ("services" in MS speak), adjust kernel parameters, et all.
in windows XP is possible to tune the interface this way in one go via "my computer" preferences. what MS should do is to put a "wizard" in the installation media or control pannel to do this automatically. KDE has this wizard and it runs everytime a new user logs in. it have a slidebar where the user adjusts for more performance or more eye-candy.
last time i had to change the DNS record for my domain and eNameco's system returned error (second time it happened) i decided to look for another registrar. after a week trying to unlock the domain without an answer to my tickets, i finally sent them an e-mail threatening legal action, with copies to ICANN and Texas state's general attorney.
a day later the domain was unlocked and i moved it.
it does wonders for the global anti-spam movement.
one of the reasons why spam exists is that it's _cheap_
with hundreds of suits on them the economics of spam turns backwards. it'll become more expensive to the spammers than what's worth.
of course, this is just one aspect. if MS adds decent filters to hotmail, outlook, exchange and such, it'll make even more dificult for spammers to get their way.
filters are simpler to implement without big $$$, but to launch 200+ law suits as a reinforcement on the war against spam... well it takes microsoft.
why the editors here still bother publishing ADTI FUD ? seriously, is this such a slow news day ?
we're all sick tired of knowing ADTI is just a bunch of lunatic FUDsters in M$ payroll and nothing they write is worth taking into account.
unless, of course, you put it on "it's funny. laugh" section
the parent post was about "efficiency", so i just proved that motorcicles are _less_ efficient by weight than cars. now, if you want to talk about whos more "economic", then of course its... diesel cars for short distances. longer distances (if youre lucky to live and work near a station) the best thing is the subway/metro.
in your post you mention school bus, semi, train... dunno in US. with their gas guzzling culture they may even use gasoline for massive vehicles, but here in brasil we use diesel for such things. its waaaay more efficient AND economical than gasoline. unfortunatelly our legislation only allows jeeps, SUVs and trucks to use diesel. for the rest of us theres alcohool (less efficient but more economical) and natural gas (even more economical than diesel) and not-so-good ol gasoline. some cars accept all three at the same time.
a decently adapted car can run on natural gas cheaper than a light motorcicle. a V6 ford ranger makes 250 km on R$ 30,00 of natural gas, a small 1.5l car will do the same distance with nearly R$ 15,00, while my motorcicle does only 200 km with the same money. PLUS: natural gas polution is negligible.
gotta love a country where a regular car can be fueled with 3 kinds of fuel AT THE SAME TIME (gasoline and alcohool mix in the tank + natural gas in the extra cilinders) ^_^
my 125cc honda XLR (check http://www.honda.com.br/ is a retired bike but they have a similar replacement) make 210km on 7 liters of gasoline, 30 km/l it weighs 110 kg (dry). with me + oil and fuel is about 185 kg. 30 km/l with a 12.5 hp engine at constant 80 km/h moving 180 kg, take note.
my statio wagon is a 1200 kg volkswagen parati with a 1800cc engine produces 90 hp and at 80 km/h it does... 12 km/l.
an engine 14 times bigger only needs twice the fuel to move a car 7 times the weight of the motorcicle.
things get worse as the motorcicle engine gets bigger. a honda CB-400 with a 400cc engine does 15 km/l a CBR-7500 spends more than my car.
whos "pretty damn fuel efficient" now ?
with all due respect, $175k is less than an _HOUR_ billings for IBM. with $96.5 billion income last year: 96,500,000,000 / 365 = 264,383,561 / 24 = 11,015,981 / 60 = 183,599
at current prices IBM could buy the whole SCO with 6 hours worth of their income.
here in brasil cals from cell phone-to-cell phone are cheaper than calls from land line-to-cell phone, so many comapanies are ataching cell phones to their PBX sistems so any call to numbers starting with 7,8 or 9 (is mandatory that cell phones numbers begins with one of these digits) are routed through the mobiles. some say the cost savings pays the cost of the equipment really soon.
i'm not worried with computers controling planes. boeing an airbus have been doing this for over a decade. i start to worry when they begin outsorcing the development to india...
january 25 is just a few weeks before the greatest holyday of all: Carnaval.
not to mention is summer here, all schools are on vacation, so there's no traffic jams, even in big cities like sao paulo...
you get the picture. this guy should consider adding a geographical factor in his equation.
whay makes them think they have the right to notify anyone ?
some 3 months ago the ISP i used to work for here in brasil received a notification that someone in our network was downloading "exorcist - the begining", complete with IP address. happens that a simple "whois " returned the name of another ISP, with an IP address range in a neighbour AS (autonomous system. huge IP address ranges ISPs and network operator have). we simply had NOTHING to do with that.
lucky them they were in US. if they were here with the threatening tone of the e-mail we could sue them. threatening a person or a company on an empty basis or based on false information is (IIRC, IANAL) ilegal here.
let's hope IBM doesn't abandon linux after M$ is gone the same way US abandoned the afghani...
we all know how afghanistan ended up.
really. gambas is purtuguese for skunks...
ok, bad joke, but i just lost my job, so now i'll just burry myself. bye.
they may not be a "technology powerhouse" as you say, but they they certainly are an oil powerhouse, and oil is pretty much the only thing george junior and his masters at haliburtun sees. plus, cháves is a dear friend of castro and lula, and brasil _IS_ a powerhouse in south american politics. if M$ allies or at least convinces haliburton to take a second look at the issue, they'll put junior on the move on M$ behalf.
venezuela moving fast to open source have a great potential to influence lula's government ro speed up in the same direction. we're alreadi inclined to do this, venezuela may be just the push we need.
sometimes it pays off voting for a socialist. lula's screwing up in many things, but if he follows chávez in this issue, my vote would've not been wasted.
since when venezuela is a dictatorship ? just because president hugo chávez is socialist ?
don't forget that he defeated the right wing in a failed atempt of a coup and was kept in power after winning a recall poll. he has twice the legitimacy as your warrior president, george junior.
plus, a "decree" is not just a tool for dictators. other full fledged democracies have the so called "decree". assume the word to be little more than a regulation signed by the president of a democratic nation exerting the powers granted to him/her by the constitution. nothing that a rule from congress or from the supreme court can't overturn.
until the moment he found that your CPU had that horrible division bug...
'twas a i486 with a fully functional FPU and a Voodoo video card, so running half-life wouldn't be so dificult if it was really at 247 mhz.
the project, of course, was a joke. it was called E.U.N.U.C.H. for "The Extreme Use of Nearly Universal Cooling Hardware", the page is here. enjoy.
don't be rediculous...
.OGGs ^_^
mp3 isn't free. it should present itself as a list of
in debian Tbird and Ffox comes each with their own launch scripts that try to detect if another mozilla family member is running. if one is runnig you can't launch the other. so if i'm reading e-mail i can't launch URL from Tbird and if i'm browsing i cant read e-mail...
plus, the suite already have a (primitive) calendar that is quite handy sometimes.
i received a spam in my gmail spam box about a product that makes women "instantly horny"... yeah, right...
/ DJEum9tXL.html
it did have an "unsubscribe" link, so i clicked through and entered a brand new, created just for this address there. the link, for those willing to try is http://protesilaos.info/3ea2a2675e2fe363b4ffa9b7c
lessee now if spam starts flowing or not...
the full mozilla suite has an option to not only block external images in messages, but to also sanitize _ALL_ html messages, displaying them as plain text. defeats all web bugs and iframes embeded in spam messages. some of them display as empty messages.
open mozilla's mail and select View/Message Body As. you have 3 options. "original html" (all web bugs and iframes. java script still disabled), "simple html" (disarms and defangs most bugs and tricks while keeping some formating) and "plain text" (only links are kept. formating is hosed but all bugs and images are cleaned).
"plain text" is a nice option if you're paranoid. but in this case you're probably using mutt or pine anyway, so why boter ?
correct me if i'm wrong, but... isn't all this what high end gaming GPUs like ATI's r450 and nVidias NV45 are suposed to do ?