A few days ago, they roll out their new website design, featuring more graphics and more dynamic content. What happens? They crash and burn during their high-load times...
I think they're just overloading their servers... Again.
Personally, I've built around 20 machines based on Cyrix CPUs, and have only had one problem with one, which I caused.
Running a 233MHz (Ok, 187MHz clock) processor without a heatsink or fan for half an hour would probably damage ANY brand.
My only complaint with Cyrixes so far is the slow FPU (It's slower than my P200 by a good margin). Outside of games, it's quite a nice processor, especially when you consider you're getting 300MHz performance for $30...
Rob (and probably Hemos, JonKatz possibly, etc.. The people who have write access to the front page) have/has the ability to completely delete posts, as well as probably unlimited moderation points. You bring up a point I overlooked though, and it's a good one... Moderators have wasted a total of what, 14 points on one person? (3 posts were marked back up to 0, and someone had to put them down to -1 again). Plus some moderators have used points on this thread (6 or 8 at least)... That's 4 or 5 moderator's point total...
Unfortunatley, setting threshold to 0 still shows whatever that crap was, thanks to some moderator having raised several posts back from -1 to 0, and it having stayed at 0 for several minutes. Moderation gone wrong to say the least.
That's why I suggested an alternative to disabling AC posting... Perhaps a limit of 3 posts per AC per thread? Per day? Disconnecting and reconnecting to get a new IP would be too big of a hassle for all but the most determined of... Is there a term for this type of people?
*Smirks* There are far better ways to get AC posting removed if I wanted to go about things that way. I am simply stating my opinion, not illustrating it.
For this Shoot-Out of network operating systems (see the Shoot-Out Scorecard), PC Week Labs was unable to find a single server the vendors could agree on (due largely to Solaris 7's and Linux 2.2's limited hardware RAID device support). However, each vendor supplied servers that fit our desired configuration: four Pentium III 500MHz CPUs with 2GB of RAM.
Excuse me? Who are they refering to as "the Linux vendor" in this situation? Some company like Penguin Computing? RedHat? Linus?
Good point. Perhaps they do have a chance of having their patent finalized if they are only trying to patent a method of virtualizing an 32 bit Intel 386 archecture... I'm not a lawyer of course, and no, I haven't read their patent documentation. Maybe I will later and reply to myself with a more educated opinion..
I wouldn't call testing, writing documentation, generating ideas, and offering resources to be "very little else".
While I may not be a coder, I am not completely useless in the open source community. There is a great need for people to write documentation, to answer questions, to generate ideas, and yes, to talk a lot. If nobody took the time to write the documentation for the LDP, for example, do you think there would be nearly as many people using Linux today?
Sure, the non-coders may seem to not do much, but many of us try our best, despite people such as yourself who think we are useless and expendable.
I now find myself wondering why I'm trying to explain myself to an Anonymous Coward, who's main contribution to the community has been pure noise, not unlike so many others on slashdot.
Burried deep inside their maze of support links, there's info on using I believe a Mitsumti IDE CD-ROM driver to be able to use your CD drive in DOS. Windows 9x, Linux and any other OS with even medicore device support will already have capable generic drivers though.
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A few days ago, they roll out their new website design, featuring more graphics and more dynamic content. What happens? They crash and burn during their high-load times...
I think they're just overloading their servers... Again.
Did you deliberatley ignore the word performance?
I don't know what all this "Deb" and "Ian" stuff is.
That would be the truth according to Debra and Ian.
Well, today cdrom.com IS "crappy ass".. Averaged 500 bytes/sec from it earlier... But usually I get 25-30kbytes/sec.
Red Storm Entertainment (Tom Clancy's game company) has several games coming up... Just a thought.
That's the first question to come to my mind... What on EARTH would AOL want with WinAMP, other than to combat Microsoft...
Well, that makes a little sense..
So, the only valid votes are those Windows users who are visiting Sierra's site for info on Windows games on their x86 PCs, right?
/me sighs...
Personally, I've built around 20 machines based on Cyrix CPUs, and have only had one problem with one, which I caused.
Running a 233MHz (Ok, 187MHz clock) processor without a heatsink or fan for half an hour would probably damage ANY brand.
My only complaint with Cyrixes so far is the slow FPU (It's slower than my P200 by a good margin). Outside of games, it's quite a nice processor, especially when you consider you're getting 300MHz performance for $30...
Seems to me that you uncompressed the compressed boot image. Re-download it and DON'T gunzip it. dd it to /dev/fd0.
There are plenty of worthwhile AC posts. Unfortunatley, they're usually between the less-than-worthwhile AC posts.
Rob (and probably Hemos, JonKatz possibly, etc.. The people who have write access to the front page) have/has the ability to completely delete posts, as well as probably unlimited moderation points. You bring up a point I overlooked though, and it's a good one... Moderators have wasted a total of what, 14 points on one person? (3 posts were marked back up to 0, and someone had to put them down to -1 again). Plus some moderators have used points on this thread (6 or 8 at least)... That's 4 or 5 moderator's point total...
Unfortunatley, setting threshold to 0 still shows whatever that crap was, thanks to some moderator having raised several posts back from -1 to 0, and it having stayed at 0 for several minutes. Moderation gone wrong to say the least.
That's why I suggested an alternative to disabling AC posting... Perhaps a limit of 3 posts per AC per thread? Per day? Disconnecting and reconnecting to get a new IP would be too big of a hassle for all but the most determined of... Is there a term for this type of people?
*Smirks* There are far better ways to get AC posting removed if I wanted to go about things that way. I am simply stating my opinion, not illustrating it.
Well, all the Linux client does is spew out a bunch of text every now and then...
You want a bad score? My Cyrix 233MX took nearly 70 CPU hours to complete one run in Windows 98.
Of course you can. This is Slackware, after all.
Why did this particular comment get moderated up? It's incorrect and rather pointless...
And you didn't exactly bother to look before saying Slack doesn't have KDE or Gnome, did you?
/me looks at his Slackware 4.0beta1 box running KDE 1.1, which was installed by default.
Did you bother reading the release notes or anything? KDE 1.1 is included in the normal install, and Gnome is in the contribs.
Would you mind informing all of us how Slackware has not kept up?
You are an Anonymous Coward, with a default score of 0, enlightened one.
Excuse me? Who are they refering to as "the Linux vendor" in this situation? Some company like Penguin Computing? RedHat? Linus?
Good point. Perhaps they do have a chance of having their patent finalized if they are only trying to patent a method of virtualizing an 32 bit Intel 386 archecture... I'm not a lawyer of course, and no, I haven't read their patent documentation. Maybe I will later and reply to myself with a more educated opinion..
I wouldn't call testing, writing documentation, generating ideas, and offering resources to be "very little else".
While I may not be a coder, I am not completely useless in the open source community. There is a great need for people to write documentation, to answer questions, to generate ideas, and yes, to talk a lot. If nobody took the time to write the documentation for the LDP, for example, do you think there would be nearly as many people using Linux today?
Sure, the non-coders may seem to not do much, but many of us try our best, despite people such as yourself who think we are useless and expendable.
I now find myself wondering why I'm trying to explain myself to an Anonymous Coward, who's main contribution to the community has been pure noise, not unlike so many others on slashdot.
Burried deep inside their maze of support links, there's info on using I believe a Mitsumti IDE CD-ROM driver to be able to use your CD drive in DOS. Windows 9x, Linux and any other OS with even medicore device support will already have capable generic drivers though.