ECC memory doesn't solve world hunger, it just corrects single bit errors when a request is read from memory. If ECC memory isn't there and an error occurs, the system reboots.
Data isn't returned corrupted, it don't come back at all
if you used computers in the early 90s, it was AKA 'PARITY ERROR'
..they have such a corny, geekified name. I mean doesn't Earth Station 5 sound like some lame sci-fi dream of a little geek who doesn't get out much?:)
...out of the last 5 motherboards I've purchased not a single one came with Phoneix BIOS on it, why should this be a big concern. Now if AMI, Phoenix, and others all got together and decided this, that would be different. But as it stands right now only one BIOS manufacturer makes it.
Sure companies like Dell and HP that are secretly in Microsoft's pocket and only promote linux to sell more hardware when it suits them might join in with thier computers, it'll just open up the markets for other new computer hardware vendors to appear.
He's got to be somewhat sharp because he called Mac OS X Linux with QA & Taste. Which is a fair statement.
Show me an intelligent professor that doesn't rise to being baited like that. Don't think it has to do with being smart, it has to do with proving your smart to people who don't take 'he's smart' at face value
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How would you like to know that six months from now something is going to come out that makes the product you're selling obsolete?
Welcome to the computer hardware industry. There is something bigger, badder, and better just around the corner.
Intel's Roadmap, AMD's Roadmap and Apple's product line come to mind
When Sun released Mad Hatter and I posted this comment regarding why we as an open source community would support this I got lots of interesting responses about how 'they're not all that against' linux.
Once again they show their true colors. They see linux as something stupid that the people want but they know better. They are out of their league. They keep harping on IBM not indemnifying their customers from the SCO debacle. Why should IBM a primarily hardware & services company indemnify their customers for using Linux? They don't do it with MS, they don't do it with zOS, AIX, or OS/400.
MS got sued and LOST with the plugin thing, hell MS got sent up in front of the justice department. Should a hardware vendor such as IBM or Dell have to protect their customers from that? No, they don't.
Sun is the dinosaur in this market. They make second rate hardware that is over priced and underperformed. Why else would they never want to run a TPC benchmark and keep ballyhooing 'real world' tests when they come in and try to convince you to buy their hardware? They stopped making benchmarks the day they stopped winning them and got behind. Ultrasparc 4 was to save the world yet we still haven't seen it. Now little Intel machines that cost less than the yearly maintenance of the 'inexpensive' Sun boxes can run circles around them on Linux.
but yes this is a pet peeve of mine. However the bottom of the IBM flyers I've read have a notation next to the hard drive size and an explanation of how they measure size for the brochure.
To me that sounds like it explains it and if you don't read it / don't pay attention that is their legal out.
What ever happens to these cool sounding 'free' energy things? I've read countless articles in Wired and other magazines that never seem to come to fruition. I seem to remember things like this in the past but never see them when I look out my window...
That was kind of my point, one would think we could learn to explore for the sake of exploring after what, oh, 500 years or so?
Or if we find a new civilization that is living somwhere, and if they're not advanced enough to pound us into the stone age we gonna 're-settle' them as well ?
I agree. I believe this bill is the start of the concerns that other countries will take our 'leadership' in space away, which I hope they give us a real run for our money, and it starts a renissance in engineering and development again.
other than the reusable vehicle, we can do the rest today if we just wanted to. But until someone evil trys to do it first like the Soviet Union did in the 50s, we're not goin no where.
That's what sucks the most in my opinion. We won't explore to explore, we'll just throw money at it to 'preserve our way of life' or something like that.
No. I've only bought the equivalent of about 5 or 6 CDs.
Is it because there hasn't been a good album released in over four months (IMHO) ? Yes.
So far I've bought Blue Man Group: The Complex, Live: Birds of Pray, Weird Al Yankovic: Poodle Hat, Evanescance: Fallen and Liz Phair's new one (ugh, she went commercial)
In the past I bought multiple CDs a month, now I thumb through the new release list and go 'ugh'.
Music is in a lull right now. To me it's like it was in the early right before grunge blew out on the scene. We need something new, we need to recover from the deluge of teeny bopper music that owned the streets just like the gold rush after the new kids on the block fiasco of late 80/early 90.
So here's to hoping something new WON'T come out so it'll be easy to boycott. Otherwise, I'm going to buy new CDs if/when the songs recover. I may dislike the RIAAs tactics, but they ARE protecting their interests by going after the folks providing their copyrighted material for free. Don't know why everyone gets their panties in a bunch over that.
Acutally that's probably unfair. They're outsourcing the jobs to a manufacturing company and getting out of the low-level microelectroncis (read, less profitable) so they can work on processor (G5, Power4+, Power5, etc) design work
Dude, they're Dell. Who wants to buy a computer from a company who's motto is 'we slap shit together so cheaply so you don't have to pay 'real' prices'
Sorry but I have *never* been a fan of Dell. There are white box companies out there with more scruples with them. I keep hoping they'll implode Enron style after seeing the way they do large scale deals in businesses some days. You can't tell me that Intel sells them a Xeon MP Processor with 2MB of cache for $180 yet they'll undercut/give away stuff so quickly to win the business it ain't funny.
So am I sad to see yet another laptop go back to Dell? Hell no. Did I post my original as a troll? hell no, but it got modded that way too. Can't say I'm surprised.
personally, if I wanted a linux laptop, I'd buy an Apple iBook and put Gentoo on it.
Did you read the article? Try building your own laptop.
Yeah I did. Believe it or not, I know shocking. Someone who posts something that later gets modded into trolldom read the article. I'm shocked.
I'm referring to the 'generic' laptops that are out there. A simple search on pricewatch sends out a few of different speeds from 2.4GHz on down that are shipped with NO OS whatsoever, to me that's a perfect machine for a Linux based one.
However, that being said, I don't think that Linux is ready for the Notebook just yet. Though I'm a bit dated in that statement in that it's been about a year since I ran Linux on my Thinkpad. Back then power management was non-existant.
So you are saying Dell is choosing who is the *right* customer?
Absolutely. As a business they don't have the time or the resources to dedicate to something that 99% of the planet just ignores and moves on. That's the beauty & evil of a click through license, put enough leagalese in it and people ignore it.
To me this is a smart ass calling up Dell to cause some grief to some minimum wage/minimum trained employees.
Dell doesn't want customers like this, and they'll be happy to give em their money back if it will make them not buy from them. No large business would want to deal with someone like this.
Maybe 10 years ago when licenses first started popping up and requiring clicks we could have done something about it, but by now they're so commonplace and so ignored that no one is going to take someone seriously when they call in about it and they're gonna get brushed off.
if you don't like click through licenses agreements, build your own computer or find someone that is going to give you the hardware without any software. Otherwise, you're going to have to agree to something to turn it on.
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ECC memory doesn't solve world hunger, it just corrects single bit errors when a request is read from memory. If ECC memory isn't there and an error occurs, the system reboots.
Data isn't returned corrupted, it don't come back at all
if you used computers in the early 90s, it was AKA 'PARITY ERROR'
That and a bunch of Itanium boxes were ordered
..they have such a corny, geekified name. I mean doesn't Earth Station 5 sound like some lame sci-fi dream of a little geek who doesn't get out much? :)
...out of the last 5 motherboards I've purchased not a single one came with Phoneix BIOS on it, why should this be a big concern. Now if AMI, Phoenix, and others all got together and decided this, that would be different. But as it stands right now only one BIOS manufacturer makes it.
Sure companies like Dell and HP that are secretly in Microsoft's pocket and only promote linux to sell more hardware when it suits them might join in with thier computers, it'll just open up the markets for other new computer hardware vendors to appear.
and yet somehow over 500 comments have been generated in just a few ours, he doesn't have groupies?
You would think that Red hat would give all of ti's employees a day off to go visit the conference. Not to mention IBM.
He's got to be somewhat sharp because he called Mac OS X Linux with QA & Taste. Which is a fair statement.
Show me an intelligent professor that doesn't rise to being baited like that. Don't think it has to do with being smart, it has to do with proving your smart to people who don't take 'he's smart' at face value
How would you like to know that six months from now something is going to come out that makes the product you're selling obsolete?
Welcome to the computer hardware industry. There is something bigger, badder, and better just around the corner.
Intel's Roadmap, AMD's Roadmap and Apple's product line come to mind
What the heck. 5% of a market switched to something, so it's time to jump switch.
Guess that means everyone using linux on the desktop should go apple with that twisted logic.
Any given day 5% of a given market will try something different for various reasons. This is not something that was front page news.
5% of Windows NT servers aren't Windows NT any more. Stop the presses.
I'll paypal you the $0.10 that disc cost you if you'd like.
amazingly enough They have a torrent link on their download page
Once again they show their true colors. They see linux as something stupid that the people want but they know better. They are out of their league. They keep harping on IBM not indemnifying their customers from the SCO debacle. Why should IBM a primarily hardware & services company indemnify their customers for using Linux? They don't do it with MS, they don't do it with zOS, AIX, or OS/400.
MS got sued and LOST with the plugin thing, hell MS got sent up in front of the justice department. Should a hardware vendor such as IBM or Dell have to protect their customers from that? No, they don't.
Sun is the dinosaur in this market. They make second rate hardware that is over priced and underperformed. Why else would they never want to run a TPC benchmark and keep ballyhooing 'real world' tests when they come in and try to convince you to buy their hardware? They stopped making benchmarks the day they stopped winning them and got behind. Ultrasparc 4 was to save the world yet we still haven't seen it. Now little Intel machines that cost less than the yearly maintenance of the 'inexpensive' Sun boxes can run circles around them on Linux.
but yes this is a pet peeve of mine. However the bottom of the IBM flyers I've read have a notation next to the hard drive size and an explanation of how they measure size for the brochure.
To me that sounds like it explains it and if you don't read it / don't pay attention that is their legal out.
What ever happens to these cool sounding 'free' energy things? I've read countless articles in Wired and other magazines that never seem to come to fruition. I seem to remember things like this in the past but never see them when I look out my window...
Or if we find a new civilization that is living somwhere, and if they're not advanced enough to pound us into the stone age we gonna 're-settle' them as well ?
I agree. I believe this bill is the start of the concerns that other countries will take our 'leadership' in space away, which I hope they give us a real run for our money, and it starts a renissance in engineering and development again.
I'd like to be the first sysadmin on the moon.
other than the reusable vehicle, we can do the rest today if we just wanted to. But until someone evil trys to do it first like the Soviet Union did in the 50s, we're not goin no where.
That's what sucks the most in my opinion. We won't explore to explore, we'll just throw money at it to 'preserve our way of life' or something like that.
Bummer. Those links don't cut/paste right. What are the artists/names of the CDs? I'm always up for something new & different.
This is important? IBM's had them certified on AS 2.1 as well....
OK, I buy CDs.
This year, I've bought maybe 10.
is it because of file sharing?
No.
Is it because iTMS rocks?
No. I've only bought the equivalent of about 5 or 6 CDs.
Is it because there hasn't been a good album released in over four months (IMHO) ? Yes.
So far I've bought Blue Man Group: The Complex, Live: Birds of Pray, Weird Al Yankovic: Poodle Hat, Evanescance: Fallen and Liz Phair's new one (ugh, she went commercial)
In the past I bought multiple CDs a month, now I thumb through the new release list and go 'ugh'.
Music is in a lull right now. To me it's like it was in the early right before grunge blew out on the scene. We need something new, we need to recover from the deluge of teeny bopper music that owned the streets just like the gold rush after the new kids on the block fiasco of late 80/early 90.
So here's to hoping something new WON'T come out so it'll be easy to boycott. Otherwise, I'm going to buy new CDs if/when the songs recover. I may dislike the RIAAs tactics, but they ARE protecting their interests by going after the folks providing their copyrighted material for free. Don't know why everyone gets their panties in a bunch over that.
guess what...They already are...
Acutally that's probably unfair. They're outsourcing the jobs to a manufacturing company and getting out of the low-level microelectroncis (read, less profitable) so they can work on processor (G5, Power4+, Power5, etc) design work
Dude, they're Dell. Who wants to buy a computer from a company who's motto is 'we slap shit together so cheaply so you don't have to pay 'real' prices'
Sorry but I have *never* been a fan of Dell. There are white box companies out there with more scruples with them. I keep hoping they'll implode Enron style after seeing the way they do large scale deals in businesses some days. You can't tell me that Intel sells them a Xeon MP Processor with 2MB of cache for $180 yet they'll undercut/give away stuff so quickly to win the business it ain't funny.
So am I sad to see yet another laptop go back to Dell? Hell no. Did I post my original as a troll? hell no, but it got modded that way too. Can't say I'm surprised.
personally, if I wanted a linux laptop, I'd buy an Apple iBook and put Gentoo on it.
Did you read the article? Try building your own laptop.
Yeah I did. Believe it or not, I know shocking. Someone who posts something that later gets modded into trolldom read the article. I'm shocked.
I'm referring to the 'generic' laptops that are out there. A simple search on pricewatch sends out a few of different speeds from 2.4GHz on down that are shipped with NO OS whatsoever, to me that's a perfect machine for a Linux based one.
However, that being said, I don't think that Linux is ready for the Notebook just yet. Though I'm a bit dated in that statement in that it's been about a year since I ran Linux on my Thinkpad. Back then power management was non-existant.
Absolutely. As a business they don't have the time or the resources to dedicate to something that 99% of the planet just ignores and moves on. That's the beauty & evil of a click through license, put enough leagalese in it and people ignore it.
To me this is a smart ass calling up Dell to cause some grief to some minimum wage/minimum trained employees.
Dell doesn't want customers like this, and they'll be happy to give em their money back if it will make them not buy from them. No large business would want to deal with someone like this.
Maybe 10 years ago when licenses first started popping up and requiring clicks we could have done something about it, but by now they're so commonplace and so ignored that no one is going to take someone seriously when they call in about it and they're gonna get brushed off.
if you don't like click through licenses agreements, build your own computer or find someone that is going to give you the hardware without any software. Otherwise, you're going to have to agree to something to turn it on.