And CHARGING you a monthly fee to have your phone number unlisted and unpublished... I HAVE to pay to "opt out" of the phone book.
Even more offtopic...
It works though.. Since I got my new number 2.5 years ago I have not got a single telemarketer at random. Sears and ATT have called numerous times before I exerciced my "do not call again" option, they got my number from me somewhat volutarily from getting services from them at one time or another.
Why work for them for free? Do you think they are going to call you and thank you for waiting a day or pay you a consulting fee? Do you think they would have YOUR best interest in mind when they update their privacy policies? Sell your personal information? When their cronies are lobbying in DC to get the DMCA passed? When they are trying to take away your first sale and ownership rights?
These companies have no regard for you the consumer. They represent the SHAREHOLDERS 110%. Consumers are NOTHING to them. They made a choice to cut costs and not review and test their code. They now have to pay the piper. If this would not have made such a splash in the media, it may have been fixed at some point in the future and behind the scenes (cover-up), very few people would have found out about it, and there would be nothing implemented in the future to prevent this from happening again. You the consumer would have NO idea of knowing what kind of quality controls have been implemented in the company your are dealing with.
Imaging a tire company trying to silently cover up the fact that they had some bad tires? Imagine an airplane company forgetting about rudder problems on the most popular plane in the US?
You can insert any monopolistic company name in place of AOL here and it would result in the same scenerio. Shareholders drive the business decisions, NOT you the consumer. When the shareholders decide they want code to be audited, it will get done, not until then.
This is one of the checks and balances in the system. Actually probably the only check that a consumer still has..
If it were Microsofts way, it would be illegal to disclose bug information. Who does this protect? You the consumer? FUCK NO...
Dominion had one of the most liberal sick policies I have ever seen. Unlimited from day 1 with medical coverage!!! Its like Manassas's own welfare system. I've heard stories of at least two woman that got jobs being 7-8 months pregnant, went out on sick leave, never came back and collected a paycheck with full medical for months before finally being let go.
IRC is very, very far from legitimate or reliable tech support. Same goes for usenet.
Legitimate? Very much so..
Standard? Not in the corporate bean counter world
Step back and look at the big picture, sometimes people need to accept things for what they are and not jump on the bandwagon with the others. IMHO, if it answers your problem it is a legitimate resource.
Whats that old saying..
You will never get fired for using IBM?
Someone posted a quote around here the other day that basically said that if IT managers actually had to make a choice in the software they used, there were be far less incompetent IT managers. I could not agree more.
Use the "X-No-Archive: Yes" header if your usenet reader supports it, or simply add it as text to the begining of your message.
Deja.news and Altavista honored it in the past and Google honors it now.
The only problem with this is when a person quotes your message back in a reply, it may get archived. Placing the "X-No-Archive: Yes" header in the message body will normally prevent these from being archived as well. Or, use it in x-header form coupled with a modified return email address. I have been using this method since 1995 and I have very few of my personally identifiable posts archived. Posts of mine before I started using this method are archived but that email address is long gone.
What is the real plan here? I see another thing happening with this. Most of the new "copy" protections on audio CD's rendered their playback useless on anything but a standard audio CD player. This results in many unhappy consumers. With this new ability by DVD players, now the record companies can start including MS encoded audio tracks so they to can play the CD on more then the standard cd player and have support for more electronic devices? Imagine now that you can listen to the uncompressed raw audio with an audio cd player (and only still left on the disk for backward compatibility), and the encrypted, encoded MS version when the cd in played in anything else. What a plan. Its a win-win for big business and a lose-lose for Joe consumer.
I found a very cheap solution for backing up my +20GB of mp3's. Its redundant, off site and best of all -- completely free --. I found two friends that were willing to bring over 30GB drives and make a backup for me. Actually one had a bare drive and the other plugged his Windows machine in and pulled them from my samba box.
Funny thing though, when he was done my collection had grown from 18GB to over 25GB's?
It is not the sites that have security problems, it is this "cracker" program. Maybe they should find the author of "cracker" and charge him/her with creating terrorist tools!
I am sure they have studies that prove a higher GPA = better candidate, I would agree for the most part but its probably a marketing ploy. Maybe this is something they use as a tool to fool their non-technical based customers, "We only higher with a GPA of x.xx", like "We only higher A+, MCSE, CNE, etc.. qualified technicians". Doesnt matter that they have worked at Joe's Pizza Shack for the past 10 years and just finished the exam yesterday. It attempts to clear the FUD of highering just anybody.
Theory to practice applies to more then IT.
I went through the Navy Nuclear Power training pipeline a few years ago. It is three seperate schools, each about 7 months long. The first one is electronics (50% failure rate), second is nuclear power theory (25% failure rate) and last is an actual operating power plant (less then 10% failure rate). In this pipeline with me were two very bright guys that practically walked through the first two schools, while I busted my ass 90+ hours a week just to get by ("2.5 to stay alive" was the quote I believe). Both of these guys bombed out at the end of the operational part of the training. Turned out they had no ability to apply what they had learned and could not actually control a nuclear power plant.
I took the advice of others from a recent Dreamcast story on/. and bought one. Got the one packaged with the three sport games for $69 at a local ToyRus. I have already d/l a few emulators and boot disks and they all are working fine. If you want to buy games BestBuy the store and BestBuy.com have the best prices I could find. They have many titles for only $10. I also got two VMU's for $10 a piece, and a gamepad with rumble pack for $14. I had to shop around for the other various accessories though (mouse, KB, S-video etc..)
If you want one I would get the stuff now.. Most stores have completely sold out and/or removed everything with the word Dreamcast from the store.
You can conduct and share research that WILL eventually lead to cloning a human, yes that is the creation of a human fucking being, but you can not study the watermark of "protected" music??
Seems to me that things are slightly out of whack here in the US.
Too many people use bandwidth for many things to blame it on "sharing" with neighbors. I do not have a cable modem now (I've been hearing next month for over two years). When I did have a cable modem I probably averaged over 200MB a day. Some days well over 1GB. This was by myself. Of course most of my traffic was local because I got most of my stuff from their local connected news server. Why should I pay per MB? If I was just going to browse the freaking web all day I would save $30/month and stick to my 56k modem. Why the hell else would you get a high speed access? I have never seen a cable/dsl commercial that did not make a specific point of being at 50x faster then a dialup, be active 24 hours a day, and "great" for multimedia. I got all the multimedia I could every day from the alt.binaires.pictures.erotica.* hierarchy. They advertise it and I used it. Plain and simple.
You can buy a movie for about the save cost as a CD. Explain that one to me!
Funny you mention this. Take a look at Pink Floyd - Pulse. Its a live recording of a Pink Floyd concert in 1995. On Amazon the 2 cd set is $30.37. Yet you can buy the SAME recording on HIFI VHS for only $21.99 (I got mine at WalMart for $14.99). "HI-FI" VHS audio quality, although not digital, is very good quality. So why is the video so much cheaper then the audio only format? It has all the same audio content, plus the awesome video footage of the concert, and some production extra's and interviews included.
IMHO.. Record companies have dug their own hole. It seems the cost of promoting a cd/single stems from competeing with the other record companies who are doing the same thing. What record company can pay MTV or the radio stations the most to get their song played. Who can get the "Most requested song" for the day. I'd like to see some of the actual results of these polls. I bet it has NOTHING to do with requests. Do radio stations actually have people that keep track of this anymore? It should be called "Most paid for songs". Starting at 8 o'clock tonight we will be playing the songs that brought us in the most money today, please stay and listen...
It shows up with all the below information on the very top tab called "System Information". I have the same results on all of my Win98 machines, it is the first section of info when msinfo32 is run. Almost all of my Win boxes have the same software so maybe I have something else installed?
Microsoft Windows 98 4.10.2222 A
Clean install using Full OEM CD/T:C:\WININST0.400/SrcDir=X:\WIN98/IZ/II/IS/IQ/IT/II/NR/II/C/U:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
IE 5 5.50.4807.2300
Uptime: 0:07:44:59
Normal mode
On "CONTOUR" as "nolife"
AuthenticAMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
192MB RAM
41% system resources free
Custom swap file on drive G (143MB free)
Available space on drive C: 513MB of 1064MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive D: 519MB of 1080MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive E: 478MB of 1080MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive F: 47MB of 1103MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive G: 143MB of 250MB (FAT)
Available space on drive H: 148MB of 1080MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive I: 1053MB of 1080MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive J: 1053MB of 1910MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive U: 1538MB of 2935MB (NTFS)
Available space on drive V: 3852MB of 24471MB (NTFS)
Available space on drive W: 1525MB of 2855MB (NTFS)
Available space on drive X: 1525MB of 2855MB (NTFS)
Available space on drive Y: 273MB of 930MB (NTFS)
What about the uptime reporting in msinfo32.exe (Microsoft System Information)? It gets installed along with a lot of MS products and I believe it is included on everything since Win98.
I might as well switch to WinXP, where I know that the entire company is focused on one version of the OS, not dozens of competing distros. Isn't Linux kind of shooting itself in the foot with the distro system? Wouldn't cooperation be more efficient than competition?
You seem to be missing the point of Linux... It is not just a company that decides what you need and you have to live with it. It is many companies and groups of people around the world that had a need for something that worked and produced it. Being open source, you are allowed to use it to your desire. There are two ways of looking at this. If everyone "worked" together on the same thing then unity would be an advantage for that one specific product, but what about the rest who need something slightly different? What if every developer that worked on a a mailer only did sendmail? What would happen to your choices of mailers? I do not see multiple choices as a disadvantage. I see it as more progress and more choices for myself. With XP or a one distribution world you would be STUCK with what you were given.
The reason Linux is where is at today is because of the diversity.
This is one companies research so take it with a grain of salt. Drug companies, like any other business, are in it TO MAKE MONEY. That is their only purpose in life. How many lives are saved in the process is a bonus.
Closely related is the tobacco companies "charitable" contributions. They spent 15 million in a marketing blitz telling the world how they gave some charitible organization 5 million in donations. I could not find any links to this but I have read it in the past, really!
You seem to be making a correlation between cost effective technology and advances in technology.
The costs of technology products are determined by market demand and competition.
Look at the advancement path that almost every computer peripheral has taken over the years.
Remember when a 28.8k modem was more then 2x the price of a 14.4? Do you really think that 28.8k modem cost that much more to make? Same with CD drives, first the 2x then a 4x and now a 72x. Do you think it took some technology breakthrough to get a 20x over a 10x? No. It is all marketing. Milk the consumer for every dime you can get. Once the market gets saturated the price comes down to a stable level and the "older" items drop off the bottom to maintain the bare minimum price. Watch the CPU market. Same process.
There is proof in this concept with a few CDR's that are the same exact model internally but have different firmware. So you pay less for the 8x version then the SAME EXACT 12x writer.
Look at the laser printer options. The market bottom appears to be about $1000 for a good printer. Why does HP not sell the HP4 for like $300? Because they have the 4000 and 4050 for the same price the LJ4 was 6 years ago. Does it really cost $1200 to produce a printer? Where is the technology advancement in that thing? Would most people be happy with a LJ4? YES
I argee the learning curve is steep using Slackware but thats the key... LEARNING. I am merely a novice with Linux but I started with Slackware (3.4?) and started learning.
In fact my first machine which I still have and use daily went from Intel DX33 --> AMD DX2/66 --> AMD DX4/133 --> P133. I mainly use it for file sharing and domain logins with Samba for my house with roughly 8 other machines. It has a Quantum 120MB mounted at/, a 4GB SCSI drive for my Windows applications, and 2 30GB WD's for MP3's and misc files exported to a RH box for my local web server content.
When serving files for my Win amchines, I get more throughput with it (about 3MB/sec) then I do with my RH7.1 P200 MMX with the same 128MB (about 2MB/sec).
When something new and improved comes around, I grab the source, compile, and install.
It runs and runs great. I average roughly 200 days between reboots and it has been running 24/7 since 1995.
yuser:~$ uname -a
Linux yuser 2.0.35 #21 Wed Nov 13 00:09:39 EST 1996 i586 unknown
yuser:~$ last |more
--cut--
wtmp begins Mon Feb 9 20:03
From reading the threads here it appears that the "right" amount of pictures can only be achieved by taking as many as pictures as possible and then keeping them forever.
Technology has changed. The diehards that have taken the right of passage and refuse to disrupt the ways of those before them should become a leader, think for themselves and look for ways to improve on the past methods...
Strap a digital VIDEO camera to your head and swap the tape every two hours.. At 30 frames a second for two solid hours you will have EVERYTHING on one small tape.
For achiving purposes, use this rule of thumb..
More pictures --> bigger archive --> more space to store.
Higher quality --> bigger archive --> more space to store.
Did you read the article? They are not talking about the users desktops..
There is more to a corporate environment then Susie typing up a Word document. Whether or not Linux is feasible on the desktop is still questionable, but it is more then ready for the back room. I would assume that a ecommerce company like Amazon would probably need much much more computing power in the back room then they need on their users desktops, which are probably running some form of Windows.
NIC card = Network Interface Card card
SCSI interface = Small Computer System Interface interface
System BIOS = system Basic Input/Output System - Correct but sounds odd.
MCSE certification = Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer certification
DSL line - Digital Subscriber Line line
Slashdot Mirror
And CHARGING you a monthly fee to have your phone number unlisted and unpublished... I HAVE to pay to "opt out" of the phone book.
Even more offtopic...
It works though.. Since I got my new number 2.5 years ago I have not got a single telemarketer at random. Sears and ATT have called numerous times before I exerciced my "do not call again" option, they got my number from me somewhat volutarily from getting services from them at one time or another.
Why work for them for free? Do you think they are going to call you and thank you for waiting a day or pay you a consulting fee? Do you think they would have YOUR best interest in mind when they update their privacy policies? Sell your personal information? When their cronies are lobbying in DC to get the DMCA passed? When they are trying to take away your first sale and ownership rights?
These companies have no regard for you the consumer. They represent the SHAREHOLDERS 110%. Consumers are NOTHING to them. They made a choice to cut costs and not review and test their code. They now have to pay the piper. If this would not have made such a splash in the media, it may have been fixed at some point in the future and behind the scenes (cover-up), very few people would have found out about it, and there would be nothing implemented in the future to prevent this from happening again. You the consumer would have NO idea of knowing what kind of quality controls have been implemented in the company your are dealing with.
Imaging a tire company trying to silently cover up the fact that they had some bad tires? Imagine an airplane company forgetting about rudder problems on the most popular plane in the US?
You can insert any monopolistic company name in place of AOL here and it would result in the same scenerio. Shareholders drive the business decisions, NOT you the consumer. When the shareholders decide they want code to be audited, it will get done, not until then.
This is one of the checks and balances in the system. Actually probably the only check that a consumer still has..
If it were Microsofts way, it would be illegal to disclose bug information. Who does this protect? You the consumer? FUCK NO...
Dominion had one of the most liberal sick policies I have ever seen. Unlimited from day 1 with medical coverage!!! Its like Manassas's own welfare system. I've heard stories of at least two woman that got jobs being 7-8 months pregnant, went out on sick leave, never came back and collected a paycheck with full medical for months before finally being let go.
My wife works there, at least for now...
IRC is very, very far from legitimate or reliable tech support. Same goes for usenet.
Legitimate? Very much so..
Standard? Not in the corporate bean counter world
Step back and look at the big picture, sometimes people need to accept things for what they are and not jump on the bandwagon with the others. IMHO, if it answers your problem it is a legitimate resource.
Whats that old saying..
You will never get fired for using IBM?
Someone posted a quote around here the other day that basically said that if IT managers actually had to make a choice in the software they used, there were be far less incompetent IT managers. I could not agree more.
Use the "X-No-Archive: Yes" header if your usenet reader supports it, or simply add it as text to the begining of your message.
Deja.news and Altavista honored it in the past and Google honors it now.
The only problem with this is when a person quotes your message back in a reply, it may get archived. Placing the "X-No-Archive: Yes" header in the message body will normally prevent these from being archived as well. Or, use it in x-header form coupled with a modified return email address. I have been using this method since 1995 and I have very few of my personally identifiable posts archived. Posts of mine before I started using this method are archived but that email address is long gone.
What is the real plan here? I see another thing happening with this. Most of the new "copy" protections on audio CD's rendered their playback useless on anything but a standard audio CD player. This results in many unhappy consumers. With this new ability by DVD players, now the record companies can start including MS encoded audio tracks so they to can play the CD on more then the standard cd player and have support for more electronic devices? Imagine now that you can listen to the uncompressed raw audio with an audio cd player (and only still left on the disk for backward compatibility), and the encrypted, encoded MS version when the cd in played in anything else. What a plan. Its a win-win for big business and a lose-lose for Joe consumer.
I found a very cheap solution for backing up my +20GB of mp3's. Its redundant, off site and best of all -- completely free --. I found two friends that were willing to bring over 30GB drives and make a backup for me. Actually one had a bare drive and the other plugged his Windows machine in and pulled them from my samba box.
Funny thing though, when he was done my collection had grown from 18GB to over 25GB's?
using a tool called a "cracker."
It is not the sites that have security problems, it is this "cracker" program. Maybe they should find the author of "cracker" and charge him/her with creating terrorist tools!
Perl is my first language, I only use English when I absolutely have to. ;) Maybe I should start using that preview function that /. provides.
I am sure they have studies that prove a higher GPA = better candidate, I would agree for the most part but its probably a marketing ploy. Maybe this is something they use as a tool to fool their non-technical based customers, "We only higher with a GPA of x.xx", like "We only higher A+, MCSE, CNE, etc.. qualified technicians". Doesnt matter that they have worked at Joe's Pizza Shack for the past 10 years and just finished the exam yesterday. It attempts to clear the FUD of highering just anybody.
Theory to practice applies to more then IT.
I went through the Navy Nuclear Power training pipeline a few years ago. It is three seperate schools, each about 7 months long. The first one is electronics (50% failure rate), second is nuclear power theory (25% failure rate) and last is an actual operating power plant (less then 10% failure rate). In this pipeline with me were two very bright guys that practically walked through the first two schools, while I busted my ass 90+ hours a week just to get by ("2.5 to stay alive" was the quote I believe). Both of these guys bombed out at the end of the operational part of the training. Turned out they had no ability to apply what they had learned and could not actually control a nuclear power plant.
I took the advice of others from a recent Dreamcast story on /. and bought one. Got the one packaged with the three sport games for $69 at a local ToyRus. I have already d/l a few emulators and boot disks and they all are working fine. If you want to buy games BestBuy the store and BestBuy.com have the best prices I could find. They have many titles for only $10. I also got two VMU's for $10 a piece, and a gamepad with rumble pack for $14. I had to shop around for the other various accessories though (mouse, KB, S-video etc..)
If you want one I would get the stuff now.. Most stores have completely sold out and/or removed everything with the word Dreamcast from the store.
Let me see if I understand this correctly...
You can conduct and share research that WILL eventually lead to cloning a human, yes that is the creation of a human fucking being, but you can not study the watermark of "protected" music??
Seems to me that things are slightly out of whack here in the US.
Too many people use bandwidth for many things to blame it on "sharing" with neighbors. I do not have a cable modem now (I've been hearing next month for over two years). When I did have a cable modem I probably averaged over 200MB a day. Some days well over 1GB. This was by myself. Of course most of my traffic was local because I got most of my stuff from their local connected news server. Why should I pay per MB? If I was just going to browse the freaking web all day I would save $30/month and stick to my 56k modem. Why the hell else would you get a high speed access? I have never seen a cable/dsl commercial that did not make a specific point of being at 50x faster then a dialup, be active 24 hours a day, and "great" for multimedia. I got all the multimedia I could every day from the alt.binaires.pictures.erotica.* hierarchy. They advertise it and I used it. Plain and simple.
Parent needs modded up
Excellent work!!
You can buy a movie for about the save cost as a CD. Explain that one to me!
Funny you mention this. Take a look at Pink Floyd - Pulse. Its a live recording of a Pink Floyd concert in 1995. On Amazon the 2 cd set is $30.37. Yet you can buy the SAME recording on HIFI VHS for only $21.99 (I got mine at WalMart for $14.99). "HI-FI" VHS audio quality, although not digital, is very good quality. So why is the video so much cheaper then the audio only format? It has all the same audio content, plus the awesome video footage of the concert, and some production extra's and interviews included.
IMHO.. Record companies have dug their own hole. It seems the cost of promoting a cd/single stems from competeing with the other record companies who are doing the same thing. What record company can pay MTV or the radio stations the most to get their song played. Who can get the "Most requested song" for the day. I'd like to see some of the actual results of these polls. I bet it has NOTHING to do with requests. Do radio stations actually have people that keep track of this anymore? It should be called "Most paid for songs". Starting at 8 o'clock tonight we will be playing the songs that brought us in the most money today, please stay and listen...
I have msinfo32.exe 4.10 on Win98se.
/T:C:\WININST0.400 /SrcDir=X:\WIN98 /IZ /II /IS /IQ /IT /II /NR /II /C /U:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
It shows up with all the below information on the very top tab called "System Information". I have the same results on all of my Win98 machines, it is the first section of info when msinfo32 is run. Almost all of my Win boxes have the same software so maybe I have something else installed?
Microsoft Windows 98 4.10.2222 A
Clean install using Full OEM CD
IE 5 5.50.4807.2300
Uptime: 0:07:44:59
Normal mode
On "CONTOUR" as "nolife"
AuthenticAMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
192MB RAM
41% system resources free
Custom swap file on drive G (143MB free)
Available space on drive C: 513MB of 1064MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive D: 519MB of 1080MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive E: 478MB of 1080MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive F: 47MB of 1103MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive G: 143MB of 250MB (FAT)
Available space on drive H: 148MB of 1080MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive I: 1053MB of 1080MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive J: 1053MB of 1910MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive U: 1538MB of 2935MB (NTFS)
Available space on drive V: 3852MB of 24471MB (NTFS)
Available space on drive W: 1525MB of 2855MB (NTFS)
Available space on drive X: 1525MB of 2855MB (NTFS)
Available space on drive Y: 273MB of 930MB (NTFS)
What about the uptime reporting in msinfo32.exe (Microsoft System Information)? It gets installed along with a lot of MS products and I believe it is included on everything since Win98.
--SNIP--
Uptime: 0:14:47:56
I might as well switch to WinXP, where I know that the entire company is focused on one version of the OS, not dozens of competing distros. Isn't Linux kind of shooting itself in the foot with the distro system? Wouldn't cooperation be more efficient than competition?
You seem to be missing the point of Linux... It is not just a company that decides what you need and you have to live with it. It is many companies and groups of people around the world that had a need for something that worked and produced it. Being open source, you are allowed to use it to your desire. There are two ways of looking at this. If everyone "worked" together on the same thing then unity would be an advantage for that one specific product, but what about the rest who need something slightly different? What if every developer that worked on a a mailer only did sendmail? What would happen to your choices of mailers? I do not see multiple choices as a disadvantage. I see it as more progress and more choices for myself. With XP or a one distribution world you would be STUCK with what you were given.
The reason Linux is where is at today is because of the diversity.
FUD?
I've read articles that show otherwise..
Drug makers spend FAR more in marketing then R&D.
Family Media Center
Third World Network
This is one companies research so take it with a grain of salt.
Drug companies, like any other business, are in it TO MAKE MONEY. That is their only purpose in life. How many lives are saved in the process is a bonus.
Closely related is the tobacco companies "charitable" contributions. They spent 15 million in a marketing blitz telling the world how they gave some charitible organization 5 million in donations. I could not find any links to this but I have read it in the past, really!
You seem to be making a correlation between cost effective technology and advances in technology.
The costs of technology products are determined by market demand and competition.
Look at the advancement path that almost every computer peripheral has taken over the years.
Remember when a 28.8k modem was more then 2x the price of a 14.4? Do you really think that 28.8k modem cost that much more to make? Same with CD drives, first the 2x then a 4x and now a 72x. Do you think it took some technology breakthrough to get a 20x over a 10x? No. It is all marketing. Milk the consumer for every dime you can get. Once the market gets saturated the price comes down to a stable level and the "older" items drop off the bottom to maintain the bare minimum price. Watch the CPU market. Same process.
There is proof in this concept with a few CDR's that are the same exact model internally but have different firmware. So you pay less for the 8x version then the SAME EXACT 12x writer.
Look at the laser printer options. The market bottom appears to be about $1000 for a good printer. Why does HP not sell the HP4 for like $300? Because they have the 4000 and 4050 for the same price the LJ4 was 6 years ago. Does it really cost $1200 to produce a printer? Where is the technology advancement in that thing? Would most people be happy with a LJ4? YES
I argee the learning curve is steep using Slackware but thats the key... LEARNING. I am merely a novice with Linux but I started with Slackware (3.4?) and started learning.
/, a 4GB SCSI drive for my Windows applications, and 2 30GB WD's for MP3's and misc files exported to a RH box for my local web server content.
In fact my first machine which I still have and use daily went from Intel DX33 --> AMD DX2/66 --> AMD DX4/133 --> P133. I mainly use it for file sharing and domain logins with Samba for my house with roughly 8 other machines. It has a Quantum 120MB mounted at
When serving files for my Win amchines, I get more throughput with it (about 3MB/sec) then I do with my RH7.1 P200 MMX with the same 128MB (about 2MB/sec).
When something new and improved comes around, I grab the source, compile, and install.
It runs and runs great. I average roughly 200 days between reboots and it has been running 24/7 since 1995.
yuser:~$ uname -a
Linux yuser 2.0.35 #21 Wed Nov 13 00:09:39 EST 1996 i586 unknown
yuser:~$ last |more
--cut--
wtmp begins Mon Feb 9 20:03
that would be 1995...
From reading the threads here it appears that the "right" amount of pictures can only be achieved by taking as many as pictures as possible and then keeping them forever.
Technology has changed. The diehards that have taken the right of passage and refuse to disrupt the ways of those before them should become a leader, think for themselves and look for ways to improve on the past methods...
Strap a digital VIDEO camera to your head and swap the tape every two hours.. At 30 frames a second for two solid hours you will have EVERYTHING on one small tape.
For achiving purposes, use this rule of thumb..
More pictures --> bigger archive --> more space to store.
Higher quality --> bigger archive --> more space to store.
Did you read the article? They are not talking about the users desktops..
There is more to a corporate environment then Susie typing up a Word document. Whether or not Linux is feasible on the desktop is still questionable, but it is more then ready for the back room. I would assume that a ecommerce company like Amazon would probably need much much more computing power in the back room then they need on their users desktops, which are probably running some form of Windows.
Not directed to you personally but...
NIC card = Network Interface Card card
SCSI interface = Small Computer System Interface interface
System BIOS = system Basic Input/Output System - Correct but sounds odd.
MCSE certification = Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer certification
DSL line - Digital Subscriber Line line
I am sure there is many more