Only problem is plain old floppies don't hold all that much, and they aren't exactly easy to read on PDAs, at least not the PDAs I know of. If you use something with CompactFlash, then you also have the option of using one of the IBM Microdrives, which you can get up to 1GB now. They're not real cheap, and they're not solid state, but they're cheaper than actual flash memory and hold a lot more. Not only that, they're cool.
That iron and steel will be down there, rusting, for decades.
Why is this such a bad thing? Last I checked, iron is a pure element, and steel is mostly iron. When steel and iron rust, they create iron oxide. There's nothing particularly bad about iron oxide. It already exists in plenty of places in nature. Ever seen redish-brown rocks? Many of them (probably not all, but many) are that color because of naturally occurring iron oxide, aka Rust. If the fish wanna live in a rusty car, so be it. let them. It's hardly an environmental crime.
Man I wish I had mod points right now, cause you'd be getting at least one of them. I happend to know several "teenage code monkeys" who work for such companies as Microsoft. And as evil as we all like to make Microsoft, the fact still exists that they write code, a little of it even decent code, maybe some of it stolen code, but still code. This makes them a software company. Just because a person may be young does not mane they don't know what they're talking about when it comes to business contracts, etc. Many people as young as 16 are hired by software companies these days, and are quite likely to know at least a little somthing about what they signed.
Does anyone here really choose to use or not use a product due to a moderate price?
Yes. Actually, you'd be amazed how many people choose what to use based on price. Especially college kids. A few days ago, several of the guys in my dorm (myself included) took a bunch of 486s that our IT department was throwing away, put the best of the hardware in a couple boxes, and now a couple people who didn't have 'puters before have them. Would they like a brand new Athlon system? Sure. But price wins out, and an old 486 is free, compared to an Athlon. They're running win95, because the school had some old licenses/disks that went with those computers, so that's also free to the students. And you'd be amazed how many people are using StarOffice, even for windows, because MS Office is so stinkin expensive.
Is this really so surprising? Every country wants to have people spying for it, just not against it. Every country wants to have the upper hand, which comes from knowledge of their enemies' secrets. Of course, especially during the Cold War, the US had many spies in the USSR. They had many spies here. Both countries had double agents. If those people were caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, BANG. They were shot. Or electrocuted, hanged, injected, whatever. The penalty for treason or spying is most often death.
On a side note... Why the heck is it taking so many tries to post this thing?
I agree that DVD drives, CD drives, diskette drives, zip drives, and tape drives are generally not 'mission critial', but I know in many cases some of them are. With newer hard drives able to store such large quantities, they are becoming less important, but there are still people and corporations using CD drives and tape drives for fairly critical purposes. Examples of this would be libraries with large CD-ROM based databases, etc.
For some systems tape drives could still be considered mission critical also, though thankfully those systems are becoming less in number.
This may be redundant, I don't know, but I don't have time to read through all the posts. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I personally respect this company.
First, they could've started off with a really nasty lawyer letter. Instead, they start off by asking relatively politely that the OpenSSH project change it's name, and give some relatively valid reasons for this request. Rather than starting everything with a stupid lawsuit, they start with a simple request, which is not too hard to honor.
I'm not saying I think the company is in the right with their request, but they do have some valid points and went about it in a respectable manner. For the sake of avoiding a waste of time and money known as a court battle, it seems the reasonable thing to do is for the OpenSSH project to change their name.
I'm not good at figuring out names, but it shouldn't be too hard to come up with a more distinct name and simply avoid unneeded hassles.
Hard drives are the last moving parts in computers, other than cooling fans.
Heh... Did you forget about things like cd/dvd-rom drives, floppy drives, zip drives, and tape drives? When these things go bad, it can also cause plenty of data loss. With the rate everything is speeding up and heating up, pretty soon every part of a computer almost will have a cooling fan, a peltier, or both. And if that goes out? (yes peltiers do go out...) Well, then you're screwed. You probably still end up losing data. Also, as people have already mentioned, this vapourware does have moving parts, just not "conventional" moving parts.
...hot swapable PCI cards, CPUs, etc. Does Linux support any of those? Nope. Does Linux support disconnection and reconnection of SCA hard drives? Does it even have a completed journaling file system?
I'm not even going to attempt to answer most of the above, cause I honestly don't know or care about hot-swappable CPUs, PCI cards, etc. I don't have a reason to. About the journaling file system though, ReiserFS is included in kernel 2.4.1, released yesterday. This is a complete journaling filesystem. So, while Linux may not have many of the things you mentioned, it does at least have this.
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hmmm... I don't know where to start... First, let me say that I don't hate anybody because of their beliefs. I have many friends whose beliefs I vehemently disagree with. You say, "partial-birth abortion is plain sick." I'm glad we at least agree on that. About abortion, I say that those who think they are mature and responsible enough to be having sex with people should also be mature and responsible enough to live with the consequences of their choices. If they don't want the baby, they could at least give it up for adoption.
You talk about women who are raped, and those who are predicted to die during birth. While rape is a horrible thing, it is not the fault of the child. Some women who are raped and keep the child end up loving it dearly. Others simply have the child and then put it up for adoption. Either way, the child at least gets a chance. As far as those who are predicted to die during birth, there are many things that can be done to lessen the chances of that, and many mothers would say the life of their child is worth their own life.
To close, about Clinton: you say that, "just because all the Republicans say he's immoral does not make him immoral." I would agree with you. the fact that Republicans say he's immoral doesn't make him immoral, the fact that he's immoral does. He lied to his constituents many times, was adulterous on at least one (very well known) occasion (can we say "monica?"), lied about that, and had a presidency ridden with scandals. Personally, I call that wretched. I know he also has done a few good things, but I can't think of them off hand. I also don't believe Bush is moral because he's a republican. I believe he's moral because I know people who have talked with him, long before he ever ran for president. I have heard some of the things he said several years ago. He is honest when accused ("yes, I did get pulled over for drinking and taken to the police station. It was many years ago." etc...) He stands behind his word. That is what makes him moral.
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What I meant by praying in school was mostly public praying (like out-loud stuff during school hours, like at the start of classes, etc.) Also, there are many schools where people are told they cannot have a Bible out in class. It is not necessarily legal to tell students they can't have Bibles in class, but many schools couldn't care less what is and isn't legal when dealing with students. Students no longer have rights.
Anyway, enough of that rant... =). When I said I prayed at my school, I meant after school, before school, and sometimes by myself. Although the school didn't necessarily like it, they couldn't stop some of it. (like before-school prayer around the flag pole). The US Supreme Court has, in the last several years, made a few decisions expressly allowing students the right to meet at schools for such purposes. For a while though, many schools did not allow any kind of religious meeting, no matter when or for what purpose.
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I agree with you... Linux is better. I have Redhat and Slackware installed, along with QNX, Win2k, win98, and Inferno. haven't loaded any BSDs or BeOS yet, though I plan on it. (I love 60GB HDs...) Anyway, yah. I like Linux better, but I use my comp for mainly 3 things... writing papers, browsing the web, and playing Counterstrike. I know I can do the first 2 in Linux, but I have yet to see anything but a server for Cstrike that runs under Linux. Also, I just upgraded my system and am using an ATA100 raid setup, and haven't installed the Linux patch yet.
Anyway, you notice I said I run windows MORE than Linux. I didn't say I run it exclusively. =). Personally, I can't wait till all the good apps are available on Linux, so I can get the M$ trash of my 'puter. =).
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4) The removal of people's rights to pray in school if/when they see fit.
5) Unborn children losing the right to live.
6) The change in the percieved meaning of "seperation of church and state" from "the church shall not run the state and the state shall not run the church" to "the state shall have nothing religious in it, and no one should dare to do anything resembling religious activity in any state-run organization."(praying, reading the Bible, mentioning God, etc.)
PS Flame me if you want, but I am a Bible-Believing, God-fearing Christian, and proud of it. I'm also generally a Republican, I voted for Bush, I'm glad to have a reasonable, Godly, moral man in office again after 8 years of wretchedness, I prayed at my public high school, and yes, I even run Windows more often than Linux.
The guys at DirecTV must've been feeling nice. They gave the hackers several days to find a new hack before the superbowl. I don't doubt that many people will be able to get their cards functional in time for the game. What companies don't seem to understand is that if enough people want to copy something, those people will find a way, no matter what. I'm not saying it's right, but that's how it is. Hardware can be hacked or emulated, and software can be patched. Either way, copy protection will be defeated by those with enough time, patience, and maybe money.
I must say though, what DirecTV did was brilliant compared what most companies would think of. (a lawsuit)
I don't know why I'm responding to an obvious flaming troll, but here goes... Although installing a service pack may not "crash your HD," It can certainly do a good bit to mess up the files on it, requiring a reinstall of quite a bit. Twice or Thrice now I have had win2k freeze on boot and require a reinstall because when I restarted it it developed cross-linked files, etc. It may not crash the HD, but it does tend to screw up some important system files pretty good.
they may all have the Microsoft name on them, but how many are actually made by microsoft? I dunno about Xbox and Sidewinder, but I know the Microsoft sound system speakers are made by Philips, and the IntelliMouse doesn't say it's made by Microsoft, it just says "made in China" and has the Microsoft name stamped on it. For all we know the commies in China have been using Intellimice for the last 10 years.
Now if AMD will only get the SMP Athlon chipset out the door my year will be made!
It's already out. There's just no SMP boards available yet. (at least, that I know of... No major brands, anyway.) the 760 chipset has SMP and DDR RAM support.
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Only problem is plain old floppies don't hold all that much, and they aren't exactly easy to read on PDAs, at least not the PDAs I know of. If you use something with CompactFlash, then you also have the option of using one of the IBM Microdrives, which you can get up to 1GB now. They're not real cheap, and they're not solid state, but they're cheaper than actual flash memory and hold a lot more. Not only that, they're cool.
You mean there's actually people in Nebraska?
That iron and steel will be down there, rusting, for decades.
Why is this such a bad thing? Last I checked, iron is a pure element, and steel is mostly iron. When steel and iron rust, they create iron oxide. There's nothing particularly bad about iron oxide. It already exists in plenty of places in nature. Ever seen redish-brown rocks? Many of them (probably not all, but many) are that color because of naturally occurring iron oxide, aka Rust. If the fish wanna live in a rusty car, so be it. let them. It's hardly an environmental crime.
Man I wish I had mod points right now, cause you'd be getting at least one of them. I happend to know several "teenage code monkeys" who work for such companies as Microsoft. And as evil as we all like to make Microsoft, the fact still exists that they write code, a little of it even decent code, maybe some of it stolen code, but still code. This makes them a software company. Just because a person may be young does not mane they don't know what they're talking about when it comes to business contracts, etc. Many people as young as 16 are hired by software companies these days, and are quite likely to know at least a little somthing about what they signed.
Does anyone here really choose to use or not use a product due to a moderate price?
Yes. Actually, you'd be amazed how many people choose what to use based on price. Especially college kids. A few days ago, several of the guys in my dorm (myself included) took a bunch of 486s that our IT department was throwing away, put the best of the hardware in a couple boxes, and now a couple people who didn't have 'puters before have them. Would they like a brand new Athlon system? Sure. But price wins out, and an old 486 is free, compared to an Athlon. They're running win95, because the school had some old licenses/disks that went with those computers, so that's also free to the students. And you'd be amazed how many people are using StarOffice, even for windows, because MS Office is so stinkin expensive.
Anyone know if there's gonna be a dualhead version available? Preferably with tv and video in/out?
Is this really so surprising? Every country wants to have people spying for it, just not against it. Every country wants to have the upper hand, which comes from knowledge of their enemies' secrets. Of course, especially during the Cold War, the US had many spies in the USSR. They had many spies here. Both countries had double agents. If those people were caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, BANG. They were shot. Or electrocuted, hanged, injected, whatever. The penalty for treason or spying is most often death.
On a side note... Why the heck is it taking so many tries to post this thing?
Wow. with the number of businesses already using Linux, that's a rather interesting statement. (3 years for an enterprise-ready kernel)
I agree that DVD drives, CD drives, diskette drives, zip drives, and tape drives are generally not 'mission critial', but I know in many cases some of them are. With newer hard drives able to store such large quantities, they are becoming less important, but there are still people and corporations using CD drives and tape drives for fairly critical purposes. Examples of this would be libraries with large CD-ROM based databases, etc.
For some systems tape drives could still be considered mission critical also, though thankfully those systems are becoming less in number.
This may be redundant, I don't know, but I don't have time to read through all the posts. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I personally respect this company.
First, they could've started off with a really nasty lawyer letter. Instead, they start off by asking relatively politely that the OpenSSH project change it's name, and give some relatively valid reasons for this request. Rather than starting everything with a stupid lawsuit, they start with a simple request, which is not too hard to honor.
I'm not saying I think the company is in the right with their request, but they do have some valid points and went about it in a respectable manner. For the sake of avoiding a waste of time and money known as a court battle, it seems the reasonable thing to do is for the OpenSSH project to change their name.
I'm not good at figuring out names, but it shouldn't be too hard to come up with a more distinct name and simply avoid unneeded hassles.
Hard drives are the last moving parts in computers, other than cooling fans.
Heh... Did you forget about things like cd/dvd-rom drives, floppy drives, zip drives, and tape drives? When these things go bad, it can also cause plenty of data loss. With the rate everything is speeding up and heating up, pretty soon every part of a computer almost will have a cooling fan, a peltier, or both. And if that goes out? (yes peltiers do go out...) Well, then you're screwed. You probably still end up losing data. Also, as people have already mentioned, this vapourware does have moving parts, just not "conventional" moving parts.
...hot swapable PCI cards, CPUs, etc. Does Linux support any of those? Nope. Does Linux support disconnection and reconnection of SCA hard drives? Does it even have a completed journaling file system?
I'm not even going to attempt to answer most of the above, cause I honestly don't know or care about hot-swappable CPUs, PCI cards, etc. I don't have a reason to. About the journaling file system though, ReiserFS is included in kernel 2.4.1, released yesterday. This is a complete journaling filesystem. So, while Linux may not have many of the things you mentioned, it does at least have this.
hmmm... I don't know where to start... First, let me say that I don't hate anybody because of their beliefs. I have many friends whose beliefs I vehemently disagree with. You say, "partial-birth abortion is plain sick." I'm glad we at least agree on that. About abortion, I say that those who think they are mature and responsible enough to be having sex with people should also be mature and responsible enough to live with the consequences of their choices. If they don't want the baby, they could at least give it up for adoption.
You talk about women who are raped, and those who are predicted to die during birth. While rape is a horrible thing, it is not the fault of the child. Some women who are raped and keep the child end up loving it dearly. Others simply have the child and then put it up for adoption. Either way, the child at least gets a chance. As far as those who are predicted to die during birth, there are many things that can be done to lessen the chances of that, and many mothers would say the life of their child is worth their own life.
To close, about Clinton: you say that, "just because all the Republicans say he's immoral does not make him immoral." I would agree with you. the fact that Republicans say he's immoral doesn't make him immoral, the fact that he's immoral does. He lied to his constituents many times, was adulterous on at least one (very well known) occasion (can we say "monica?"), lied about that, and had a presidency ridden with scandals. Personally, I call that wretched. I know he also has done a few good things, but I can't think of them off hand. I also don't believe Bush is moral because he's a republican. I believe he's moral because I know people who have talked with him, long before he ever ran for president. I have heard some of the things he said several years ago. He is honest when accused ("yes, I did get pulled over for drinking and taken to the police station. It was many years ago." etc...) He stands behind his word. That is what makes him moral.
What I meant by praying in school was mostly public praying (like out-loud stuff during school hours, like at the start of classes, etc.) Also, there are many schools where people are told they cannot have a Bible out in class. It is not necessarily legal to tell students they can't have Bibles in class, but many schools couldn't care less what is and isn't legal when dealing with students. Students no longer have rights.
Anyway, enough of that rant... =). When I said I prayed at my school, I meant after school, before school, and sometimes by myself. Although the school didn't necessarily like it, they couldn't stop some of it. (like before-school prayer around the flag pole). The US Supreme Court has, in the last several years, made a few decisions expressly allowing students the right to meet at schools for such purposes. For a while though, many schools did not allow any kind of religious meeting, no matter when or for what purpose.
I agree with you... Linux is better. I have Redhat and Slackware installed, along with QNX, Win2k, win98, and Inferno. haven't loaded any BSDs or BeOS yet, though I plan on it. (I love 60GB HDs...) Anyway, yah. I like Linux better, but I use my comp for mainly 3 things... writing papers, browsing the web, and playing Counterstrike. I know I can do the first 2 in Linux, but I have yet to see anything but a server for Cstrike that runs under Linux. Also, I just upgraded my system and am using an ATA100 raid setup, and haven't installed the Linux patch yet.
Anyway, you notice I said I run windows MORE than Linux. I didn't say I run it exclusively. =). Personally, I can't wait till all the good apps are available on Linux, so I can get the M$ trash of my 'puter. =).
4) The removal of people's rights to pray in school if/when they see fit.
5) Unborn children losing the right to live.
6) The change in the percieved meaning of "seperation of church and state" from "the church shall not run the state and the state shall not run the church" to "the state shall have nothing religious in it, and no one should dare to do anything resembling religious activity in any state-run organization."(praying, reading the Bible, mentioning God, etc.)
PS Flame me if you want, but I am a Bible-Believing, God-fearing Christian, and proud of it. I'm also generally a Republican, I voted for Bush, I'm glad to have a reasonable, Godly, moral man in office again after 8 years of wretchedness, I prayed at my public high school, and yes, I even run Windows more often than Linux.
The guys at DirecTV must've been feeling nice. They gave the hackers several days to find a new hack before the superbowl. I don't doubt that many people will be able to get their cards functional in time for the game. What companies don't seem to understand is that if enough people want to copy something, those people will find a way, no matter what. I'm not saying it's right, but that's how it is. Hardware can be hacked or emulated, and software can be patched. Either way, copy protection will be defeated by those with enough time, patience, and maybe money.
I must say though, what DirecTV did was brilliant compared what most companies would think of. (a lawsuit)
I don't know why I'm responding to an obvious flaming troll, but here goes... Although installing a service pack may not "crash your HD," It can certainly do a good bit to mess up the files on it, requiring a reinstall of quite a bit. Twice or Thrice now I have had win2k freeze on boot and require a reinstall because when I restarted it it developed cross-linked files, etc. It may not crash the HD, but it does tend to screw up some important system files pretty good.
they may all have the Microsoft name on them, but how many are actually made by microsoft? I dunno about Xbox and Sidewinder, but I know the Microsoft sound system speakers are made by Philips, and the IntelliMouse doesn't say it's made by Microsoft, it just says "made in China" and has the Microsoft name stamped on it. For all we know the commies in China have been using Intellimice for the last 10 years.
Now if AMD will only get the SMP Athlon chipset out the door my year will be made!
It's already out. There's just no SMP boards available yet. (at least, that I know of... No major brands, anyway.) the 760 chipset has SMP and DDR RAM support.