Ten was Peal Jam's best effort ever, and all the albums rank higher and higher on the suck-o-meter.
Play is the same way. It's a breakout album that was perfect, and 18 is a copy of it. Plus I purchased another Moby' album from his earlier work in an effort to listen to more of his music and found that it was low on the scale of good music.
I have 40GB of MP3s at my home. They are all of the CDs that I purchase. I buy music I like. After previewing pieces of it on CDNOW.com it went into the 'OK if I get it as a gift but I'm not buying it' list.
Second, in the news article link, I found this semi-amsuing:
"The focus of this is obviously on the business customer, because we feel that for Linux to be successful over all, we have to solve the business server issue first,"
Anyone aware of a business server issue? Last I knew we just put the distribution CD of choice in and it installs, not much of an issue on it. If we need stuff, download, compile, install and you're done.
From what we have been told at this point SQL is the main focus to compete with those high dollar installs of Oracle. I've not heard about Exchange but it can't be very far behind.
But SQL is the main focus to start the new major cash cow to compete with Oracle.
Keep in mind, I work for a hardware vendor though. They don't tell us everything.
And note the release date of Itanium 2. Right along side Windows XP. There are supposedly 64 bit versions of SQL waiting to release with.Net Server 64.
Though honestly most people that ask me about 64 bit computing are Unix (Solaris, AIX, others) wanting to migrate to a less expensive hardware plaform running Linux to replace some lower end Sparc or Power3 boxes.
Though working for IBM I tend to work hard at the Solaris conversion than the AIX ones;)
Have you not seen the new intel servers IBM is releasing like the x360 and x440?
Need more PCI? Add a drawer of 12 and plug in a cable. Need more processors? Buy another four way and plug them together, you have an eight way.
Hot swap a failed memory dimm lately? You can in a x440.
There are a lot of cool tech coming from IBM in the xSeries servers. There are only so many marketing guys out there
But it sure is easy to bash IBM, so people do. They are changing. You think the layoffs of the last year or two are getting rid of the good people and not the middle management?
x86-64 may be more of a desktop migration point, but there are still plenty of IA64 type applications waiting in the wings from Microsoft, IBM and others.
There is always Linux64.
Not to mention the fact that many a beowolf supercomputer would like to be designed on a Itanium 2. There is one at NCSA from IBM with 800 some IA64 chips. They're just waiting for the Itanium2.
They were doing Van Eck Phreaking which was looking for the electrical eminations of a monitor through a solid wall in an effort to reconstruct the display.
Little Different than staring at the monitor from a distance.
Here's what I see happening from the tidbits I've garnered from many a customers discussion with their HP or Compaq Rep.
1) Anything without an intel chip in it, the days are numbered. HP invested way too much in the Itanium / EPIC instruction set and they are going to can PA-RISC in favor of Itanium in their future Unix Machines.
2) Compaq already said Alpha going bye bye in favor of Itanium.
3) HP dumped their 3000 line...Can't see any non-intel compaq line sticking around much longer
4) HP will dump their entire business line of Intel products, the Netserver, the Desktop PCs, and the Notebooks. This does not include the Best Buy crap, just the stop corps use, or should I say DON'T Use. Compaq's product line will become HP's product line for corporate intel servers.
5) Toss up in the consumer market. HP & Compaq have been 1/2 in the retail division with the Presario/Pavillion, don't know/don't care what happens to them. In my personal experience of living vicariously through other people HPs Pavillions break more than the Presarios did.
6) HP Should maintain it's printer division while Compaq fades away.
7) The new company will claim all sorts of wlid thing like they've been supporting Linux the longest, they have the most Unix experience, etc trying to woo the Open Source community when in fact the people that are running the new HP never touched Linux, they just bought and destroyed other companies that did (Digital) and desperately have been trying to get some news bites about linux because other companies like VA Linux, Pengiun Computing, and IBM really support linux by giving things back to the community instead of just hoping it sells more of their servers/desktops.
8) IBM and Dell will continue to chip away the lead of this new merger, just prolonging the inevitable die off of even more hardware companies. If past experience of mergers with Compaq involved mean anything it'll be 18 months of a mess before anything positive comes out, and Dell and IBM will continually be beating on that. Dell from a price perspective, and IBM from a technology perspective.
SecureID and Credit card companies should get together. Those neat little keychain FOBs that change numbers every 60 seconds would be a good tech for the one-shot credit cards. If your card number changed every 60 seconds It'd be pretty hard to snag it and use it.
It should be somewhat easy to implement, credit cards would cost a bit more so of COURSE annual fees would have to go up at least 150%;)
401k loans are good for this. As long as you have the discipline to close the accounts immediately after you pay them off. It gets you out of the financial requirements should you loose a job, and the worse that can happen is a 10% penalty tax if you DO loose your job and can't pay the loan back to your 401k.
But at that point, would you rather have 10% penalty or bad credit?
This would be a perfect time for some large linux distribution company, or a consulting company to step in and donate time to help them migrate entirely to Linux. It would have to be a disruptive migration because of the audit in 60 days threat but they could do it.
You would think with such a large focus on MS right now they'd not pull this kind of crap especially in a tight economy and a region full of protestors. Should be interesting to see how this develops.
Last time I checked Big Blue still owns Lotus Domino Mail Server. It does do calendar/contact/to dos just like exchange.
Least my copy does.
And, if I'm not mistaken, it runs on Linux....
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It does nothing but make things look insane. You think people would stand for this? Where is all the income going to come from this? Someone is going to pay $12 to download 60MB of stuff? Come on. $149 for a software license YEARLY? Please.
What are they going to do, format your hard drive if you connect with an older version of windows? of Linux?
Oh yeah, and of course IBM, Sun, HP, and all those vendors with other OSes besides MS are going to let them get a state mandated desktop OS.
The government would NEVER pass a low outlawing development of software. That would be struck down for anti-free speech rules easy.
Oh yeah, European Union? Canada? They're gonna stand for it? Right. People emigrating from the US so they can use a computer. Whee.
plus, every self respecting geek on the planet would quit working on computers, and the whole frickin internet would collpase in a day. Paper MCSE's can't run the internet.
This cannot be done with an explosion of any kind. The reason is that you have LOTS of particles interacting with each other. For each interaction, every single particle needs to be re-calculated. This is why you cannot divvy up the data and spread it across a lot of machines. This is why you need to use a computer like this to do the calculation.
I just wanted to clarify something for people thinking 'But isn't ASCII White a bunch of machines?'
Yes, It is. But they are tightly intercoupled with an IBM SP Switch that has something like 300MB (Yes, Mega BYTE) second non-blocking throughput to handle the internode communication, both at the rack (16 machine) and cluster (In ASCII White's case, it's 128 racks I believe, 128 racks of 16 4-way Power3 SPs, I've been in the same room with it but didn't touch it/work on it/have anything to do with it except go 'whoa' when someone pointed it out to me) I'm probably wrong on the interconnect speed, I think it's much faster now. I'm a bit behind on IBM's SP stuff. Spend to much time watching Myrinet.
I'd like to take a gander at the parallel coding that was done to get this kind of simulation. This can't be a batch mode program (like distributed.net and seti) like you said. It'd be quite facinating, though I'm sure they'd shoot you after you read it for that Top Secret stuff.
And I got just that! The vampire safe house club scene was great. They one-upped the opening club sequence of the first movie with this club scene. The people standing around with their skin peeled back and vamps pickin away at it was both amazingly gross and kinda like watching a car wreck, don't car buy you gotta stare.
Blade was always one step in front of the guys.
The big dude from 'Beauty and the Beast' played an excellent bad guy. Do you Blush? Of course we must use that line in his finale. Once again quite the shot.
The Bad Girl gone Good was hot in her sexy leather outfit. Not to mention her death sequence. It was very cool CGI.
The co-horts of the blood gang were a bunch of idiots.
The reaper autopsy was wild. Not to mention the way they go for blood.
Chopping the guys head in half with a sword and the eye stares at you and blinks. That was great!
This was a VAMPIRE movie people. Not only that but a VAMPIRE tha walks during the day not sucking people's blood and killing other vampires! You expected a plot? Come on. The first one didn't have much of a plot.
First we faked moon landings, now we've faked black holes! Is there even really any stars at all up there or is it just a bunch of lights in a big dome?
I installed it on a Windows 98 box (before converting my main desktop to Linux and using GPG).
it started locking up randomly quite often. The common denomenator was that I installed PGP. Un-installing PGP it stopped locking up. I hand't tried it again.
Don't know what the deal was. Have not yet tried it again. I'd like to get it on my wife's XP Box but I haven't spent the effort as of yet.
It may have been there one point in time, and it may still be in the original law.
But the RIAA, MPAA and every other copyright nazi has gone out and sued it to death, winning quietly in most cases.
So, fair use has been nickeled and dimed to death so that ripping a CD because it's scratched and several tracks don't play well is illegal. The RIAA and MPAA expect you to buy another one.
I have a scratched Live: Throwing Copper and Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary that have multiple tracks that odn't work thanks to a stupid CD holder I had in my car. GRIP and cdparanoia managed to get the tracks off the CDs after 12 hours on one track and I mp3'd them. Only way I can listen to the whole CD. I've not bothered to burn them back on a second CD as of yet
What if to get the next version of Windows.net or whatever you ahve to buy the 64Bit CPU.
It only runs on Itanium, and Itanium systems cost (theoretically) more than a loaded G4 Power Mac. The Windows Faithful would have to spend $4000 a machine for hardware, what's another $300 for the OS?
I mean the way they are acting towards the 9 dissenting states, this seems like something they'd do without even blinking. Though I don't know how Intel would take it.
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I use GRIP and -b 122 --r3mix.
check out r3mix.net. It does VBR encoding from 112 - 320 and saves a little space without sacrificing quality.
Ten was Peal Jam's best effort ever, and all the albums rank higher and higher on the suck-o-meter.
Play is the same way. It's a breakout album that was perfect, and 18 is a copy of it. Plus I purchased another Moby' album from his earlier work in an effort to listen to more of his music and found that it was low on the scale of good music.
I have 40GB of MP3s at my home. They are all of the CDs that I purchase. I buy music I like. After previewing pieces of it on CDNOW.com it went into the 'OK if I get it as a gift but I'm not buying it' list.
Second, in the news article link, I found this semi-amsuing:
"The focus of this is obviously on the business customer, because we feel that for Linux to be successful over all, we have to solve the business server issue first,"
Anyone aware of a business server issue? Last I knew we just put the distribution CD of choice in and it installs, not much of an issue on it. If we need stuff, download, compile, install and you're done.
True, and so has IBM in their AIX pSeries / RS6000 series.
The xSeries however is Intel architecture. In that sense it's brand new cutting edge for that architecture.
From what we have been told at this point SQL is the main focus to compete with those high dollar installs of Oracle. I've not heard about Exchange but it can't be very far behind.
But SQL is the main focus to start the new major cash cow to compete with Oracle.
Keep in mind, I work for a hardware vendor though. They don't tell us everything.
You are right, for windows 2000.
.Net Server 64.
;)
However, under Red Hat Linux 64 there are tons.
And note the release date of Itanium 2. Right along side Windows XP. There are supposedly 64 bit versions of SQL waiting to release with
Though honestly most people that ask me about 64 bit computing are Unix (Solaris, AIX, others) wanting to migrate to a less expensive hardware plaform running Linux to replace some lower end Sparc or Power3 boxes.
Though working for IBM I tend to work hard at the Solaris conversion than the AIX ones
Have you not seen the new intel servers IBM is releasing like the x360 and x440?
Need more PCI? Add a drawer of 12 and plug in a cable. Need more processors? Buy another four way and plug them together, you have an eight way.
Hot swap a failed memory dimm lately? You can in a x440.
There are a lot of cool tech coming from IBM in the xSeries servers. There are only so many marketing guys out there
But it sure is easy to bash IBM, so people do. They are changing. You think the layoffs of the last year or two are getting rid of the good people and not the middle management?
Read further up the chain a bit, I did, you just have to click on the message to see it.
x86-64 may be more of a desktop migration point, but there are still plenty of IA64 type applications waiting in the wings from Microsoft, IBM and others.
There is always Linux64.
Not to mention the fact that many a beowolf supercomputer would like to be designed on a Itanium 2. There is one at NCSA from IBM with 800 some IA64 chips. They're just waiting for the Itanium2.
They were doing Van Eck Phreaking which was looking for the electrical eminations of a monitor through a solid wall in an effort to reconstruct the display.
Little Different than staring at the monitor from a distance.
Here's what I see happening from the tidbits I've garnered from many a customers discussion with their HP or Compaq Rep.
1) Anything without an intel chip in it, the days are numbered. HP invested way too much in the Itanium / EPIC instruction set and they are going to can PA-RISC in favor of Itanium in their future Unix Machines.
2) Compaq already said Alpha going bye bye in favor of Itanium.
3) HP dumped their 3000 line...Can't see any non-intel compaq line sticking around much longer
4) HP will dump their entire business line of Intel products, the Netserver, the Desktop PCs, and the Notebooks. This does not include the Best Buy crap, just the stop corps use, or should I say DON'T Use. Compaq's product line will become HP's product line for corporate intel servers.
5) Toss up in the consumer market. HP & Compaq have been 1/2 in the retail division with the Presario/Pavillion, don't know/don't care what happens to them. In my personal experience of living vicariously through other people HPs Pavillions break more than the Presarios did.
6) HP Should maintain it's printer division while Compaq fades away.
7) The new company will claim all sorts of wlid thing like they've been supporting Linux the longest, they have the most Unix experience, etc trying to woo the Open Source community when in fact the people that are running the new HP never touched Linux, they just bought and destroyed other companies that did (Digital) and desperately have been trying to get some news bites about linux because other companies like VA Linux, Pengiun Computing, and IBM really support linux by giving things back to the community instead of just hoping it sells more of their servers/desktops.
8) IBM and Dell will continue to chip away the lead of this new merger, just prolonging the inevitable die off of even more hardware companies. If past experience of mergers with Compaq involved mean anything it'll be 18 months of a mess before anything positive comes out, and Dell and IBM will continually be beating on that. Dell from a price perspective, and IBM from a technology perspective.
SecureID and Credit card companies should get together. Those neat little keychain FOBs that change numbers every 60 seconds would be a good tech for the one-shot credit cards. If your card number changed every 60 seconds It'd be pretty hard to snag it and use it.
;)
It should be somewhat easy to implement, credit cards would cost a bit more so of COURSE annual fees would have to go up at least 150%
401k loans are good for this. As long as you have the discipline to close the accounts immediately after you pay them off. It gets you out of the financial requirements should you loose a job, and the worse that can happen is a 10% penalty tax if you DO loose your job and can't pay the loan back to your 401k.
But at that point, would you rather have 10% penalty or bad credit?
This would be a perfect time for some large linux distribution company, or a consulting company to step in and donate time to help them migrate entirely to Linux. It would have to be a disruptive migration because of the audit in 60 days threat but they could do it.
You would think with such a large focus on MS right now they'd not pull this kind of crap especially in a tight economy and a region full of protestors. Should be interesting to see how this develops.
Last time I checked Big Blue still owns Lotus Domino Mail Server. It does do calendar/contact/to dos just like exchange.
Least my copy does.
And, if I'm not mistaken, it runs on Linux....
It does nothing but make things look insane. You think people would stand for this? Where is all the income going to come from this? Someone is going to pay $12 to download 60MB of stuff? Come on. $149 for a software license YEARLY? Please.
What are they going to do, format your hard drive if you connect with an older version of windows? of Linux?
Oh yeah, and of course IBM, Sun, HP, and all those vendors with other OSes besides MS are going to let them get a state mandated desktop OS.
The government would NEVER pass a low outlawing development of software. That would be struck down for anti-free speech rules easy.
Oh yeah, European Union? Canada? They're gonna stand for it? Right. People emigrating from the US so they can use a computer. Whee.
plus, every self respecting geek on the planet would quit working on computers, and the whole frickin internet would collpase in a day.
Paper MCSE's can't run the internet.
I just wanted to clarify something for people thinking 'But isn't ASCII White a bunch of machines?'
Yes, It is. But they are tightly intercoupled with an IBM SP Switch that has something like 300MB (Yes, Mega BYTE) second non-blocking throughput to handle the internode communication, both at the rack (16 machine) and cluster (In ASCII White's case, it's 128 racks I believe, 128 racks of 16 4-way Power3 SPs, I've been in the same room with it but didn't touch it/work on it/have anything to do with it except go 'whoa' when someone pointed it out to me) I'm probably wrong on the interconnect speed, I think it's much faster now. I'm a bit behind on IBM's SP stuff. Spend to much time watching Myrinet.
I'd like to take a gander at the parallel coding that was done to get this kind of simulation. This can't be a batch mode program (like distributed.net and seti) like you said. It'd be quite facinating, though I'm sure they'd shoot you after you read it for that Top Secret stuff.
They were just trying to make us desperate for an episode of Farscape that we'd go out and buy all the DVDs.
It worked on me.
And I got just that! The vampire safe house club scene was great. They one-upped the opening club sequence of the first movie with this club scene. The people standing around with their skin peeled back and vamps pickin away at it was both amazingly gross and kinda like watching a car wreck, don't car buy you gotta stare.
Blade was always one step in front of the guys.
The big dude from 'Beauty and the Beast' played an excellent bad guy. Do you Blush? Of course we must use that line in his finale. Once again quite the shot.
The Bad Girl gone Good was hot in her sexy leather outfit. Not to mention her death sequence. It was very cool CGI.
The co-horts of the blood gang were a bunch of idiots.
The reaper autopsy was wild. Not to mention the way they go for blood.
Chopping the guys head in half with a sword and the eye stares at you and blinks. That was great!
This was a VAMPIRE movie people. Not only that but a VAMPIRE tha walks during the day not sucking people's blood and killing other vampires! You expected a plot? Come on. The first one didn't have much of a plot.
First we faked moon landings, now we've faked black holes! Is there even really any stars at all up there or is it just a bunch of lights in a big dome?
I installed it on a Windows 98 box (before converting my main desktop to Linux and using GPG).
it started locking up randomly quite often. The common denomenator was that I installed PGP. Un-installing PGP it stopped locking up. I hand't tried it again.
Don't know what the deal was. Have not yet tried it again. I'd like to get it on my wife's XP Box but I haven't spent the effort as of yet.
It may have been there one point in time, and it may still be in the original law.
But the RIAA, MPAA and every other copyright nazi has gone out and sued it to death, winning quietly in most cases.
So, fair use has been nickeled and dimed to death so that ripping a CD because it's scratched and several tracks don't play well is illegal. The RIAA and MPAA expect you to buy another one.
I have a scratched Live: Throwing Copper and Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary that have multiple tracks that odn't work thanks to a stupid CD holder I had in my car. GRIP and cdparanoia managed to get the tracks off the CDs after 12 hours on one track and I mp3'd them. Only way I can listen to the whole CD. I've not bothered to burn them back on a second CD as of yet
I need to be able to send/receive email while I travel. So what did I do to allow this?
Simple. I turned on SMTP AUTH.
It was hard. I was using an Exchange server. I had to click two checkboxes. One on the Exchange Admin tool and one in Outlook Express.
Thanks for the link & the suggestion. I'll check it out.
What if to get the next version of Windows .net or whatever you ahve to buy the 64Bit CPU.
It only runs on Itanium, and Itanium systems cost (theoretically) more than a loaded G4 Power Mac. The Windows Faithful would have to spend $4000 a machine for hardware, what's another $300 for the OS?
I mean the way they are acting towards the 9 dissenting states, this seems like something they'd do without even blinking. Though I don't know how Intel would take it.