There is an Operating System on a SAN. It is typically stored on the first 3-5 drives of the DPE. These disks are referred to as the "Vault" disks. These disks can be used for storage but as much as 20 percent of the disk is reserved for the OS.
Technically anything that touches their Classified LAN is then considered classified to the highest level of the data on the system. Some tech could have brought in a new desktop background on floppy from the unclass side.
"Oh my GOD where is my Britney Spears pictures!!!."
Is this new 802.11 product going to do well? With new technologies on the horizon such as WiMax will companies and businesses invest anymore money to upgrade or rollout an 802.11 product?
Since when is a Mazda Miata a "high profile" car? If your Miata did get broken into the total value of the items stolen would probably be more then the value of the car.
Now wait, Apple's are niche products so comparing them to Dell or IBM is the wrong way to go, why don't you compare them to an Alienware laptop. That would be a better comparison. Alienware makes their own "Ultra-Portable" laptops now, because who really wants to carry around a 10 pound beast. And if you try and configure one to closely match the specs of a new 15 inch Powerbook the prices are about the same, but I found that I still get a better deal with the Powerbook (which I'm typing on right now). The Alienware has integrated graphics and only a 14.1 inch screen and comes in at 5.5 pounds. Now my Powerbook on the other had has a 15.2 inch widescreen display, a Radeon 9600, and loads of other goodies, and it only weighs 5.6 pounds. Yes I would rather have paid less then 1K for my new laptop but for the features that I get, and the quality the Powerbook was the better deal in my opinion.
Funny. I just bought a 14 hour TiVo at a garage sale for 10 bucks. Plus with all the hard drives I have around here it would only cost me the price of the subscription. You should just bump up the storage space and sell it on eBay. Those people will pay good money for 100+ hours of recording time, and the lifetime subscription. I say a 50+ hour TiVo with lifetime going to 420, just the other day.
I'm more concerned about the release of the PPC 980 the mobile edition of the 970 in a nice 15 inch Al Powerbook. If you are into the rumor mill your should check out MacBidouille's website. He has some speculations about speed and performance against the current line of P4 processors.
I built my own PVR with all the fixins'. Radeon All in WOnder 8500DV, 240GB of storage, 48X CD-Burner. And I have it directly connected to my 55in HD widescreen TV. I never miss an episode of Smallville or Monster Garage. Its connected to my router so I have access to all the shows from anywhere I choose. Watch them in the bathroom on one of the laptops, while I'm getting ready for bed, or download them to a friends house to watch them over there. I still think building your own PRV (computer) is the best bet.
And I did it all for way cheaper then the current manufactures are selling their Windwos Media Center PCs. Can you believe they want 2,000 or more for some models.
"In addition to CD/DVD writing applications, sound mixing, editing, and an integrated synthesizer, SuSE Linux 8.2 is the first distribution to include MainActor, a professional video editing application, enabling customers to compose and edit digital movies. The KDE scanning application Kooka and the commercial OCR tool Kadmos enable users to scan both printed and hand-written texts into the word processing application."
Is MainActor a commercial Linux video editing application or is this a Suse created application?
I totally agree, you could download the Suse Live Eval CD and do an FTP install (if you have the bandwidth) but I still like having the install CDs when I make a major foul-up and have to reinstall. And to anyone who is a Mandrake fan, you can always see the progress that the team is making on the newest releases. I think I have about 15 Mandrake 9.1 CDs laying around from the various incarnations that they went thru to get to the final release. I only wish Suse was as accomodating. But I agree that they have to make some revenue to pay their programmers.
For the longest time I couldn't decide what I wanted more, but watching DVDs on a 55in HD Widescreen TV are definitley worth the cost, until yesterday when we spent the money on the Powerbook.
The quality of the TV is great, I have my PVR computer hooked up to it, and I can navigate around all right but I still prefer my CRT monitor to read or post to Slashdot
But if you don't watch that much TV your money will be better spent on that new Powerbook you have been drooling over.
I have such fond memories of my 21264 Alpha, its a shame that they are so expensive now though. I always wanted to get a quad-processor board and try to find oil or compile my kernel in 1 min.
HP will probably make sure that these boards and chips are not accessible to the non-commercial Alhpa lovers. So I will have to wait 10 years to get a cheap one off of Ebay.
This just seems complicated, why can't they just improve the speech to text capability. It seems like drawing a face with life-like facial movements to enable lip reading is a little beyond the scope of power for a PDA.
Do they really need a Geforce 4 to output DVDs? Is Alienware/ Microsoft aiming these products at the mobile gamers that want more horsepower then a laptop can provide. I think my Celeron 500 with 120GB hard drive does just fine for playing DVDs and the occasional TV capture with my old ATI AIW 128 card.
Is Microsoft making available Windows Media Center for the general public to build their own "Media Centers" or is this something that can only be purchased in these complete prebuilt systems?
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There is an Operating System on a SAN. It is typically stored on the first 3-5 drives of the DPE. These disks are referred to as the "Vault" disks. These disks can be used for storage but as much as 20 percent of the disk is reserved for the OS.
Technically anything that touches their Classified LAN is then considered classified to the highest level of the data on the system. Some tech could have brought in a new desktop background on floppy from the unclass side.
"Oh my GOD where is my Britney Spears pictures!!!."
Is this new 802.11 product going to do well? With new technologies on the horizon such as WiMax will companies and businesses invest anymore money to upgrade or rollout an 802.11 product?
And you saw THIS coming. Only the next evolution in VAX hardware.
Since when is a Mazda Miata a "high profile" car? If your Miata did get broken into the total value of the items stolen would probably be more then the value of the car.
Now wait, Apple's are niche products so comparing them to Dell or IBM is the wrong way to go, why don't you compare them to an Alienware laptop. That would be a better comparison. Alienware makes their own "Ultra-Portable" laptops now, because who really wants to carry around a 10 pound beast. And if you try and configure one to closely match the specs of a new 15 inch Powerbook the prices are about the same, but I found that I still get a better deal with the Powerbook (which I'm typing on right now). The Alienware has integrated graphics and only a 14.1 inch screen and comes in at 5.5 pounds. Now my Powerbook on the other had has a 15.2 inch widescreen display, a Radeon 9600, and loads of other goodies, and it only weighs 5.6 pounds. Yes I would rather have paid less then 1K for my new laptop but for the features that I get, and the quality the Powerbook was the better deal in my opinion.
Funny. I just bought a 14 hour TiVo at a garage sale for 10 bucks. Plus with all the hard drives I have around here it would only cost me the price of the subscription. You should just bump up the storage space and sell it on eBay. Those people will pay good money for 100+ hours of recording time, and the lifetime subscription. I say a 50+ hour TiVo with lifetime going to 420, just the other day.
From what I have been reading it sounds like the PPC 980 is the mobile verison fo the 970 to be used in the PowerBook line.
I'm more concerned about the release of the PPC 980 the mobile edition of the 970 in a nice 15 inch Al Powerbook. If you are into the rumor mill your should check out MacBidouille's website. He has some speculations about speed and performance against the current line of P4 processors.
Perhaps they will release Safari 1.0 with 10.3. I really hate switching between browsers when a page doesn't render well in Sarari.
I'm probably going to be sterile from having my new Powerbook on my laptop all day long. It gets unbelievably hot.
I built my own PVR with all the fixins'. Radeon All in WOnder 8500DV, 240GB of storage, 48X CD-Burner. And I have it directly connected to my 55in HD widescreen TV. I never miss an episode of Smallville or Monster Garage. Its connected to my router so I have access to all the shows from anywhere I choose. Watch them in the bathroom on one of the laptops, while I'm getting ready for bed, or download them to a friends house to watch them over there. I still think building your own PRV (computer) is the best bet.
And I did it all for way cheaper then the current manufactures are selling their Windwos Media Center PCs. Can you believe they want 2,000 or more for some models.
"In addition to CD/DVD writing applications, sound mixing, editing, and an integrated synthesizer, SuSE Linux 8.2 is the first distribution to include MainActor, a professional video editing application, enabling customers to compose and edit digital movies. The KDE scanning application Kooka and the commercial OCR tool Kadmos enable users to scan both printed and hand-written texts into the word processing application."
Is MainActor a commercial Linux video editing application or is this a Suse created application?
I totally agree, you could download the Suse Live Eval CD and do an FTP install (if you have the bandwidth) but I still like having the install CDs when I make a major foul-up and have to reinstall. And to anyone who is a Mandrake fan, you can always see the progress that the team is making on the newest releases. I think I have about 15 Mandrake 9.1 CDs laying around from the various incarnations that they went thru to get to the final release. I only wish Suse was as accomodating. But I agree that they have to make some revenue to pay their programmers.
I sure miss the day when you could download the ISO's for free. I think that is why Mandrake is so appealing.
For the longest time I couldn't decide what I wanted more, but watching DVDs on a 55in HD Widescreen TV are definitley worth the cost, until yesterday when we spent the money on the Powerbook.
The quality of the TV is great, I have my PVR computer hooked up to it, and I can navigate around all right but I still prefer my CRT monitor to read or post to Slashdot
But if you don't watch that much TV your money will be better spent on that new Powerbook you have been drooling over.
obviously the humor in the use of the word "cracker" in the article title was lost.
Damn white boys need to stay away from them computers!!
At least you could do is add the link for the fools that don't know what you are talking about. Strong Bad Email.
I have such fond memories of my 21264 Alpha, its a shame that they are so expensive now though. I always wanted to get a quad-processor board and try to find oil or compile my kernel in 1 min.
HP will probably make sure that these boards and chips are not accessible to the non-commercial Alhpa lovers. So I will have to wait 10 years to get a cheap one off of Ebay.
Please oh please lets get all foreign gov'ts to give there encryption keys to microsoft. Then they will truly run the world.
This just seems complicated, why can't they just improve the speech to text capability. It seems like drawing a face with life-like facial movements to enable lip reading is a little beyond the scope of power for a PDA.
Do they really need a Geforce 4 to output DVDs? Is Alienware/ Microsoft aiming these products at the mobile gamers that want more horsepower then a laptop can provide. I think my Celeron 500 with 120GB hard drive does just fine for playing DVDs and the occasional TV capture with my old ATI AIW 128 card.
Is Microsoft making available Windows Media Center for the general public to build their own "Media Centers" or is this something that can only be purchased in these complete prebuilt systems?
So I can later burn to DVD. I'm working on my Smallville Season 2 DVD now.