Actually, I wish more case designs supported dual PSU's as the power supplies these days are relatively cheap and I could use the redundancy and extra oumph
Some folks make redundant supplies that fit into an ATX compliant sizefactor. Thus they'll fit any case. They range from 250W all the way to 500W Antec used to make one I thought. Maybe Enermax. But they aren't cheap.
I always do this (wipe the directory out completely) Most likely its a prefs.js issue - but I'd rather not blow the profile away if I can help it - but the above skin suggestion may be the ticket. Still digging
I've used Mozilla as my primary browser/email for a LONG time. Been happy with it. But I made a clean install of 1.2b (after uninstallin 1.2a) on my Win2K/SP3 laptop, and it won't even go past the splash screen. I guess something in my prefs file is hosing it - sure would like to know what.
How does one become a slashdot editor? Serious question. Is it an employee of OSDN or VA? Is it a volunteer job? Is it freelanced out? Is it someone who contributed over 1000KLOC to slash?
There appears to be some memoryleak somewhere which makes apache consume more and more memory until we restart it. It doesn't happen that often, but we do have a script that kills off apache about once a month.
Why not just use MaxRequestsPerChild?
# # MaxRequestsPerChild: the number of requests each child process is # allowed to process before the child dies. The child will exit so # as to avoid problems after prolonged use when Apache (and maybe the # libraries it uses) leak memory or other resources. On most systems, this # isn't really needed, but a few (such as Solaris) do have notable leaks # in the libraries. For these platforms, set to something like 10000 # or so; a setting of 0 means unlimited. #
This way you can knock off each Apache child one by one after a given period of use without having to restart Apache completely.
Yeah well, in the US, many carriers do charge you for received SMS (and received calls, etc, etc) We're a wireless backwater and we know it. Course I carry a cell phone for just that - the phone. I could give a rats butt about SMS wireless internet on a 7x3 screen, etc. Even these newer 3G wannabe phones with cameras and color screens - WTF for? If I want a computer capability of some kind - I'll plug my laptop into my phone as a modem - and I've yet to do that. I don't wanna be THAT connected. I'd rather explore a city wardriving:)
The United States. If you don't pay X dollars a month for Internet Service or $Y for an SMS message pack (like $5 for 100 msgs), you pay for SMS, sent or received. Trust me - one time our server monitor program went nuts and sent me hundreds of messages - jacked my bill up like $20 Needless to say I fixed that quick. I never get SMS messages unless our servers go down, which thanks to Linux, is almost never. So it is cheapest for me to pay per use - until this crap starts - then it gets turned off.
#include rant about users not knowing how to configure MySQL for primetime use.
This error is a config issue - so the admin of that site isn't ready for prime time. Any web site with a MySQL backend has to change some MySQL parms to fit that application.
now if 2 drives decide to fail at the same time... I'm screwed:)
And it DOES happen. I bought 2 15GB DeathStars for my email and every other internet app under the sun server before they had a reputation (I used a 27GB RAID-5 SCSI array for data - these were just system). From day one, LInux SW Raid couldn't handle all teh bad sectors that kept popping up. The mirror would drop to degraded modle almost every other day. So I tossed them on a 3ware 6200 - ah true HW RAID-1 goodness. Once 3ware released the firmware with dynamic sector correction - all was good, I was no longer getting daily 'Bad sector' emails from the card utiltiy.
I knew I should get them replaced but never got around to it, well...
Sunday night, both drives failed within 2 hours of each other and my server was SOL. It corrupted a number of base OS files (mingetty and bash anyone?) so it couldn't even drop me into shell to run fsck. Even in rescue mode - the drive would never fsck - it would get stuck on a given section of the drive.
So I've spent he good part of a week recovering everything. Needless to say the Deathstars are in teh trash and two nice new Seagates with fluid bearings, which I should have bought from day one for $20 extra bucks, are now running along nicely. Good news is this gave me an opportunity to move from RH 6.1 to 7.3!
Instead of wasting so much time debating the 'health' of Linux - we should be coding:)
A previous poster made a great point - Linux is FUN. Thats what drives many people. I use Linux all day every day - work, home, etc (except for the occasional boot in Windows for MS Money - its a great program IMHO) But fun doesn't cut it for the general desktop - so what does?
Well, lets see. OS X may not be 'Linux' but close enough - and I think its an awesome desktop that folks will love once they try it - downside, expensive hardware.
I've been a Gnome user for the longest time. It was cool, did what I needed - but required a bit too much tweaking it seemed. But I stuck with it - and even tried out the GNome 2 snapshots recently. Ugh - it was hard to tell what was different besides less stuff workin g- didn't seem to be a huge improvement on teh surface (yeah I know it was mostly under wraps changes) So I stepped away fro teh dark side and tried KDE 3 recently. All I can say is WOW. Amazing stuff. Things just work - out of the box. Its all there - the menus are great. Toss in the Liquid Theme and WOW. Tabbed Xterms - genius (which is why Mozilla is such a blast) A decent taskbar - lots of useful context menu options.
I doubt I'll go back. I expect Gnome will improve in the user interface department as 2.x progresses, but right now KDE 3 is it - hands down.
But I'm not one of the freaks who will only run a program starting with a K. Mozilla still rocks my world. KOnquerer is a really nice file manager - probably a little better than Nautilus (which I thought WAS vastly improved in 2.0) But Mozilla is a dream. OpenOffice - same thing. I use it over Koffice anyday. Not to say the blaance can't shift.
But this all drives home a point. Provide users a CHOICE. Not just with the OS - but on teh desktop. Out of the box installs should have both Gnome and KDE with IDENTICAL menu structures. Or close to it. This way folks can decide. A 'Browser' sub menu shoudl have Konq, Mozilla, Galeon, etc. Again - let the user decide. But they'll appreciate having CHOICE.
I think Linux IS ready for the desktop - 100% ready? No - but hell XP isn't even close to 75% ready. But with the economy tanking and IT departments looking hard at their budgets - Linux IS a viable and reasonable option.
I agree with a previous poster - hardware support is shaky sometimes. But Sound card, USB support, Video support, etc have made HUGE improvements. But printing HAS sucked.
Then I tried CUPs. You really should - Any 7.2 user can put in cups 1.15 and ghostscript 7.05. It takes a little doing, but it can be done. I had a harmless man page conflict with libpng-1.2 (vs the stock 1.0) - a force install overwrote one man page but saved the tons of dependencies fr9om KDE 3.0.0 After that - I tossed in all teh cups, ghostscript, gimp-print, and hijs rpms from RedHat. For those of you who don't knwo - CUPS allows you to use the stock WIndows/Mac PPD files from any print driver on Linux. It was a browser interface that makes setting up printers a breeze. It provides easy to use status info, etc. Again - perfect? No, but man what a huge improvement.
FInally - we have to get away from teh super complex control panel - even WIndows suffers fro9m it and XPs attempt to hide stuff hasn't worked well.
We all use browsers - so what shoudl we do? Webmin - hands down. Yes, it has roots fr9om Caldera - but get past it. Webmin is an awesome set of perl programs ot adminsiter just about every aspect of your system - granted, its not always intuative and some cntrol panels are betetr than others. But it provides an easy to navigate set of control panels and I'm sure we could do a better job than XP did in 'limiting' the initial set presented. - DO what apple did - provide user admin 'levels' for preferences - Easy, Intermediate, Advanced - but have them apply across the board - this would let power users thrive and still provide a desktop to TechnoPhobes.
But that said - is Linux going to supplant WIndows as the OS of choice for residential customers - doubtful. Not now. Linux needs to win in the schools (where it IS making inroads) and corporate desktops - and I think it CAN succeed there. A corporate IT manager has $$$ to worry about and Linux CAN make a huge difference. If OEMs ever get rid of the MS tax, it'll help even more (yay WalMart!:) )
Yeah, yeah, you say nobody is that crazy - but I challeneg that. I'm not talkin a 100% swap out - but you approach group by group. Example - I installed Mozilla on a number of machines where I work - these machines are use by administrative staff running WIndows. But I explained some of the highlights of Mozilla (browser and Mail) over IE and Lookout. Bang - they really like it! The Mail client is helping convince them. Yes, once in a while the browser can't render a page - but they are smart enough to know they can start IE - but Mozilla offers lots of nicer items - and they've been happy to say so: tabbed interface, faster (yes it is!), cool sidebar, faster, easy to use email client. Is it perfect - no - but they know that.
I installed Open Office one many of our boxes alongside MS Office. Told them it was there - is it getting used? Some - not tons, but some. Our power users will probably never leave Office, but casual users - they don't want it if they can view Office stuff and make minor changes.
So lets get past this *nix is dead crap. Linux and Open Source has Microsoft scared and rightly so - why? They recognize the potential threat. Not the immediate threat (OK maybe for servers), but the potential threat. Its got them shaking. They still believe they are the best int eh world and nothing can touch them - but there is no doubt LInux has them sittin gup and taking SERIOUS notice. The FUD makes it obvious.
Thats the key - Linux, BSD, and all teh associated open source software there has MASSIVE potential. Some stuff is obviously best in class already. But the whole package (and a desktop IS a whole package) has MAJOR potential. Its funny that Microsoft seems to be the one that knows that best.
We know better - if a few folks want to throw up their hands after fighting the fight for years - let them. We all get tired. But there are plenty of folk who will pick up the slack and continue to push open source because we believe its the best thing for us, society, and such.
So yes, sad to see a cheerleader go - but its hardly the end of the world. Heck - LInus could get frustrated - move to Redmond and Linux would still survive and thirve. It is too good not to!
While I understand that you have to draw the line somewhere and that it can be difficult to deal with such far flung development groups with their own priorities. BUT...
Why is XFS still not considered ready? Its in almost every major distro except for RedHat. Heck - the XFS team even provides custom XFS RedHat installer iso's to fill in the gap. XFS v1.1 is already released and is being used on huge fileservers in production all the time. Why can't we get past the 'we don't like the way you tweaked module X' and finally move forward.
I wish EVMS was going to be ready - this is going to be huge for enterprises - finally a unified, feature rich storage manager.
LVM 2.0 - well, I'd rather ensure 1.x is super stable (it is so far for me) so this isn't as big a deal.
Serial ATA - Bummer. I realize this is new. But I get the feeling Serial ATA is going to be huge, especially for lower end servers. Finally getting real hot plug support and a setup that'll make things easier on the HW RAID vendors (I can't wait to see a Serial ATA card from 3-Ware!) I would hope this would be flagged as something to be merged into 2.6 as soon as its possible, even if marked experimental.
Don't get me wrong - I'm really psyched for 2.6, but there are some features (whose development is out of the control of the core kernel team) we really need, to push Linux farther and farther into the enterprise. I know you can patch in what you want - but many IT folks, even Linux zealots, are wary of doing so in production - they want stock RedHat kernels so they can tell their boss its gone through RedHat Q&A and all that. Its CYA sure, but necessary in many environments. Granted RedHat often adds stuff not in the stock kernel, but not usually hueg features.
I'd have to say that if this comes to pass, it will probably cause me to watch less TV than I do now. I've seen programs in airports with those stupid popup trivia windows - totally distracting.
Granted - nothing will keep me from watching West Wing and Law & Order - but beyond that when I just want to veg and watch TV - having popups in teh corner would be over the line for me - I'd do something else or watch a cable station.
I'd take brief ads screens during the pause in sat channel changes before I'd accept this type of advertising. Its too intrusive. I know the TV stations need to make money - but at some point ads will take over the show and I'll stop watching.
At some point overbearing ads will drive people away - I'm already ready to stop readnig NY Times because their ads pop up constantly, even using the Lizard.
Granted, we are a ways away - but the potential to get better efficiencies is there - If you install a Fuel Cell for the house, you don't rate it on pure power generation efficiency when comparing to the grid since they produce a LOT of heat - so most prototype designs are setup to heat your hot water as well. When this is done the efficiency of the units overall goes way up when looking at your total energy bill. The interestin gthing is - most of the home fuel cell units are supposed to run off natural gas since its available to many folks - but if a Hydrogen cell in a car were more efficient it would be way cool to go partially off grid by plugging the car in:)
I caught that too - for me THAT is the topic that should have made the headline. Thats insane! Make everybody pay so some people can download copyrighted music? Please!
The precident that would set is staggering - imagine Microsoft trying to asses a 'piracy' fee to ISPs to account for people who download pirated software?
This little tidbit needs some SERIOUS attention now instead of waiting for the next Hollings type moron to pick it up and write a bill.
It all comes down to this - if you're doing somethign illegal - you shoudl go to jail - but stop treating the rest of us like criminals because you think we might do something wrong.
What I would like to see from AMD is more in the way of compiler support for x86-64.
I think AMD did pretty well with promoting and supporting x86-64. The x86-64 website has soeme decent stuff including emulator, experimental compiler, etc. It was a smart move and got the developers on board early.
You don't need the hardware. There has been an AMD produced emulator for x86-64 available for some time so people could work on ports. See AMD's x86-64 website. Linux (and/or a BSD variant) got ported to x86-64 some time ago - all without hardware. It was a front page story on Slashdot when it was announced.
If i didn't have it set up to show (popup to click ok) when going to or leaving a secure page you would not even know it happend,..... i think it is a bug in software (carnavore)
I doubt it is Carnivore which is more of a traffic sniffer. If your browser is being redirected to some other server transparently, it seems more like a way to track who RECEIVES email from certain people. Doesn't seem the most efficient way, but it would allow the govt to see what IPs were used to read an email from a suspect - could come in very useful.
Cisco does not offer any better security than anybody else in the 802.11 space. In fact their stuff isn't that great, they just bought out some other company and slapped their sticker on it.
True, Cisco bought Aironet. However, they do have additional features that enterprise customers demand. Imagine having hundreds of APs using MAC authentication - gonna put each new MAC in each AP? Will a Linksys accept 1000's of Mac entries? Not likely. We use Avaya (Lucent) APs where I work that cost about $800 (though I've seen them for $400 at one place recently) Why? They support use of an external RADIUS server for authenticaton.
Trust me, I've got a Cisco/Aironet AP and a Linksys. The Cisco has a numerous of features aimed towards the enterprise including a web browser and telnet interface)
But for a small business/home user, the Linksys can't be beat. They've made huge improvment in firmware and clients over the past couple years.
As for the M-1, I'd say their price point is justified for the market they target - people who want an AP they can add custom features to with ease.
Yeah, he's got progressive scan, only gets anamorphic DVDs if he can help it. Of course he thinks it looks fine - maybe its just me:) It varies by DVD, but still its noticable.
He did - it didn't help (let me qualify - it made HDTV pictures look even better, but...) - it really boils down to it being such a large set with such high resolution that artifacts you'd never see on smaller low res sets become very noticable and it makes the picture appear grainy
And we're suprised? I for one, am glad. FOr the past few years people have been so caught up in new technology, they never stop to think if a given technology is necessary.
Do I really want my fridge on the network? Hell no. I want it to keep my beer cold while using the least electricity and I'm smart enough to tell when I'm running out of beer. I don't need some door mounted scanner to try and tell me when there's
It comes down to realism and unfortuantely many technical people don't get it. Just because you CAN doesn't mean you should! I pay $50/month for satellite sure - but I also get hundreds of channels - vs the 5 or 8 you used to get in teh 80's via antenna - its worth it. Am I gonna shell out thousnads for HDTV to watch the SAME stuff AND be blocked fr9om taping it for later - hell no. Just like I don't need my desktop PC controlling my AV system (though I WILL have a Linux/PC based A/V server for content - unecrypted content;) )
Pay per view was supposed to be this major cash cow - but what happened? It only worked for niche markets (fights, WWF nuts, soccer fans, etc)
I will NEVER pay for shows - its not worth it. Especially if they have ads. I will never allow a device in my home that is under the control of outside vendors.
Its rather funny when you think about it. All these content companies are workin so hard to prevent the minorty from pirating, they're gonan drive the majority away. The 90's made companies think consumers didn't care about value anymore - well they're gonan learn. I'll laugh my ass off if things get so heavy handed that people just give up and fidn somethign else (ie turn off the TV) and the networks go bankrupt as the advertisers bolt since nonbody sees their ads anymore. There are maybe 2 or 3 shows a week I'd pay for, but you can bet it wouldn't be more than a dollar a week:) and that's without ads!
They look like garbage. A friend of mine plunked down $3K for a 65" Toshiba HDTV. DVDs - even anamorphic on his top of the line DV Dplayer look BAD. There's a subtle grain/texture that appears - probably artifacts that normal TVs don't show due to less resolution OR due to line doubling. But regardless - he gets pissed when I tell him DVDs look better on my 6 year old Sony TV than on his super HDTV. But its the truth.
Now when he watches a true 1080 HDTV signal, its breathtaking. But how many people think we're gonna see stuff in 1080? Fat chance.
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Some folks make redundant supplies that fit into an ATX compliant sizefactor. Thus they'll fit any case. They range from 250W all the way to 500W Antec used to make one I thought. Maybe Enermax. But they aren't cheap.
That was it - was using an old SkyPilot. Removed the skin from my profile directory and the lizard lives! Thanks for the tip.
I always do this (wipe the directory out completely) Most likely its a prefs.js issue - but I'd rather not blow the profile away if I can help it - but the above skin suggestion may be the ticket. Still digging
Still digging, but it won't even start? Sheesh.
GIven this story - must be from WEST Virginia :)
I have this image of Taco in a room with all these mechanical talking monkey heads. :)
Why not just use MaxRequestsPerChild?
This way you can knock off each Apache child one by one after a given period of use without having to restart Apache completely.
Yeah well, in the US, many carriers do charge you for received SMS (and received calls, etc, etc) We're a wireless backwater and we know it. Course I carry a cell phone for just that - the phone. I could give a rats butt about SMS wireless internet on a 7x3 screen, etc. Even these newer 3G wannabe phones with cameras and color screens - WTF for? If I want a computer capability of some kind - I'll plug my laptop into my phone as a modem - and I've yet to do that. I don't wanna be THAT connected. I'd rather explore a city wardriving :)
The United States. If you don't pay X dollars a month for Internet Service or $Y for an SMS message pack (like $5 for 100 msgs), you pay for SMS, sent or received. Trust me - one time our server monitor program went nuts and sent me hundreds of messages - jacked my bill up like $20 Needless to say I fixed that quick. I never get SMS messages unless our servers go down, which thanks to Linux, is almost never. So it is cheapest for me to pay per use - until this crap starts - then it gets turned off.
This error is a config issue - so the admin of that site isn't ready for prime time. Any web site with a MySQL backend has to change some MySQL parms to fit that application.
And it DOES happen. I bought 2 15GB DeathStars for my email and every other internet app under the sun server before they had a reputation (I used a 27GB RAID-5 SCSI array for data - these were just system). From day one, LInux SW Raid couldn't handle all teh bad sectors that kept popping up. The mirror would drop to degraded modle almost every other day. So I tossed them on a 3ware 6200 - ah true HW RAID-1 goodness. Once 3ware released the firmware with dynamic sector correction - all was good, I was no longer getting daily 'Bad sector' emails from the card utiltiy.
I knew I should get them replaced but never got around to it, well...
Sunday night, both drives failed within 2 hours of each other and my server was SOL. It corrupted a number of base OS files (mingetty and bash anyone?) so it couldn't even drop me into shell to run fsck. Even in rescue mode - the drive would never fsck - it would get stuck on a given section of the drive.
So I've spent he good part of a week recovering everything. Needless to say the Deathstars are in teh trash and two nice new Seagates with fluid bearings, which I should have bought from day one for $20 extra bucks, are now running along nicely. Good news is this gave me an opportunity to move from RH 6.1 to 7.3!
A previous poster made a great point - Linux is FUN. Thats what drives many people. I use Linux all day every day - work, home, etc (except for the occasional boot in Windows for MS Money - its a great program IMHO) But fun doesn't cut it for the general desktop - so what does?
Well, lets see. OS X may not be 'Linux' but close enough - and I think its an awesome desktop that folks will love once they try it - downside, expensive hardware.
I've been a Gnome user for the longest time. It was cool, did what I needed - but required a bit too much tweaking it seemed. But I stuck with it - and even tried out the GNome 2 snapshots recently. Ugh - it was hard to tell what was different besides less stuff workin g- didn't seem to be a huge improvement on teh surface (yeah I know it was mostly under wraps changes) So I stepped away fro teh dark side and tried KDE 3 recently. All I can say is WOW. Amazing stuff. Things just work - out of the box. Its all there - the menus are great. Toss in the Liquid Theme and WOW. Tabbed Xterms - genius (which is why Mozilla is such a blast) A decent taskbar - lots of useful context menu options.
I doubt I'll go back. I expect Gnome will improve in the user interface department as 2.x progresses, but right now KDE 3 is it - hands down.
But I'm not one of the freaks who will only run a program starting with a K. Mozilla still rocks my world. KOnquerer is a really nice file manager - probably a little better than Nautilus (which I thought WAS vastly improved in 2.0) But Mozilla is a dream. OpenOffice - same thing. I use it over Koffice anyday. Not to say the blaance can't shift.
But this all drives home a point. Provide users a CHOICE. Not just with the OS - but on teh desktop. Out of the box installs should have both Gnome and KDE with IDENTICAL menu structures. Or close to it. This way folks can decide. A 'Browser' sub menu shoudl have Konq, Mozilla, Galeon, etc. Again - let the user decide. But they'll appreciate having CHOICE.
I think Linux IS ready for the desktop - 100% ready? No - but hell XP isn't even close to 75% ready. But with the economy tanking and IT departments looking hard at their budgets - Linux IS a viable and reasonable option.
I agree with a previous poster - hardware support is shaky sometimes. But Sound card, USB support, Video support, etc have made HUGE improvements. But printing HAS sucked.
Then I tried CUPs. You really should - Any 7.2 user can put in cups 1.15 and ghostscript 7.05. It takes a little doing, but it can be done. I had a harmless man page conflict with libpng-1.2 (vs the stock 1.0) - a force install overwrote one man page but saved the tons of dependencies fr9om KDE 3.0.0 After that - I tossed in all teh cups, ghostscript, gimp-print, and hijs rpms from RedHat. For those of you who don't knwo - CUPS allows you to use the stock WIndows/Mac PPD files from any print driver on Linux. It was a browser interface that makes setting up printers a breeze. It provides easy to use status info, etc. Again - perfect? No, but man what a huge improvement.
FInally - we have to get away from teh super complex control panel - even WIndows suffers fro9m it and XPs attempt to hide stuff hasn't worked well.
We all use browsers - so what shoudl we do? Webmin - hands down. Yes, it has roots fr9om Caldera - but get past it. Webmin is an awesome set of perl programs ot adminsiter just about every aspect of your system - granted, its not always intuative and some cntrol panels are betetr than others. But it provides an easy to navigate set of control panels and I'm sure we could do a better job than XP did in 'limiting' the initial set presented. - DO what apple did - provide user admin 'levels' for preferences - Easy, Intermediate, Advanced - but have them apply across the board - this would let power users thrive and still provide a desktop to TechnoPhobes.
But that said - is Linux going to supplant WIndows as the OS of choice for residential customers - doubtful. Not now. Linux needs to win in the schools (where it IS making inroads) and corporate desktops - and I think it CAN succeed there. A corporate IT manager has $$$ to worry about and Linux CAN make a huge difference. If OEMs ever get rid of the MS tax, it'll help even more (yay WalMart! :) )
Yeah, yeah, you say nobody is that crazy - but I challeneg that. I'm not talkin a 100% swap out - but you approach group by group. Example - I installed Mozilla on a number of machines where I work - these machines are use by administrative staff running WIndows. But I explained some of the highlights of Mozilla (browser and Mail) over IE and Lookout. Bang - they really like it! The Mail client is helping convince them. Yes, once in a while the browser can't render a page - but they are smart enough to know they can start IE - but Mozilla offers lots of nicer items - and they've been happy to say so: tabbed interface, faster (yes it is!), cool sidebar, faster, easy to use email client. Is it perfect - no - but they know that.
I installed Open Office one many of our boxes alongside MS Office. Told them it was there - is it getting used? Some - not tons, but some. Our power users will probably never leave Office, but casual users - they don't want it if they can view Office stuff and make minor changes.
So lets get past this *nix is dead crap. Linux and Open Source has Microsoft scared and rightly so - why? They recognize the potential threat. Not the immediate threat (OK maybe for servers), but the potential threat. Its got them shaking. They still believe they are the best int eh world and nothing can touch them - but there is no doubt LInux has them sittin gup and taking SERIOUS notice. The FUD makes it obvious.
Thats the key - Linux, BSD, and all teh associated open source software there has MASSIVE potential. Some stuff is obviously best in class already. But the whole package (and a desktop IS a whole package) has MAJOR potential. Its funny that Microsoft seems to be the one that knows that best.
We know better - if a few folks want to throw up their hands after fighting the fight for years - let them. We all get tired. But there are plenty of folk who will pick up the slack and continue to push open source because we believe its the best thing for us, society, and such.
So yes, sad to see a cheerleader go - but its hardly the end of the world. Heck - LInus could get frustrated - move to Redmond and Linux would still survive and thirve. It is too good not to!
Why is XFS still not considered ready? Its in almost every major distro except for RedHat. Heck - the XFS team even provides custom XFS RedHat installer iso's to fill in the gap. XFS v1.1 is already released and is being used on huge fileservers in production all the time. Why can't we get past the 'we don't like the way you tweaked module X' and finally move forward.
I wish EVMS was going to be ready - this is going to be huge for enterprises - finally a unified, feature rich storage manager.
LVM 2.0 - well, I'd rather ensure 1.x is super stable (it is so far for me) so this isn't as big a deal.
Serial ATA - Bummer. I realize this is new. But I get the feeling Serial ATA is going to be huge, especially for lower end servers. Finally getting real hot plug support and a setup that'll make things easier on the HW RAID vendors (I can't wait to see a Serial ATA card from 3-Ware!) I would hope this would be flagged as something to be merged into 2.6 as soon as its possible, even if marked experimental.
Don't get me wrong - I'm really psyched for 2.6, but there are some features (whose development is out of the control of the core kernel team) we really need, to push Linux farther and farther into the enterprise. I know you can patch in what you want - but many IT folks, even Linux zealots, are wary of doing so in production - they want stock RedHat kernels so they can tell their boss its gone through RedHat Q&A and all that. Its CYA sure, but necessary in many environments. Granted RedHat often adds stuff not in the stock kernel, but not usually hueg features.
Granted - nothing will keep me from watching West Wing and Law & Order - but beyond that when I just want to veg and watch TV - having popups in teh corner would be over the line for me - I'd do something else or watch a cable station.
I'd take brief ads screens during the pause in sat channel changes before I'd accept this type of advertising. Its too intrusive. I know the TV stations need to make money - but at some point ads will take over the show and I'll stop watching.
At some point overbearing ads will drive people away - I'm already ready to stop readnig NY Times because their ads pop up constantly, even using the Lizard.
No doubt - GE is already well on the way to producing such a beast with PlugPower.
Granted, we are a ways away - but the potential to get better efficiencies is there - If you install a Fuel Cell for the house, you don't rate it on pure power generation efficiency when comparing to the grid since they produce a LOT of heat - so most prototype designs are setup to heat your hot water as well. When this is done the efficiency of the units overall goes way up when looking at your total energy bill. The interestin gthing is - most of the home fuel cell units are supposed to run off natural gas since its available to many folks - but if a Hydrogen cell in a car were more efficient it would be way cool to go partially off grid by plugging the car in :)
The precident that would set is staggering - imagine Microsoft trying to asses a 'piracy' fee to ISPs to account for people who download pirated software?
This little tidbit needs some SERIOUS attention now instead of waiting for the next Hollings type moron to pick it up and write a bill.
It all comes down to this - if you're doing somethign illegal - you shoudl go to jail - but stop treating the rest of us like criminals because you think we might do something wrong.
I think AMD did pretty well with promoting and supporting x86-64. The x86-64 website has soeme decent stuff including emulator, experimental compiler, etc. It was a smart move and got the developers on board early.
You don't need the hardware. There has been an AMD produced emulator for x86-64 available for some time so people could work on ports. See AMD's x86-64 website. Linux (and/or a BSD variant) got ported to x86-64 some time ago - all without hardware. It was a front page story on Slashdot when it was announced.
I doubt it is Carnivore which is more of a traffic sniffer. If your browser is being redirected to some other server transparently, it seems more like a way to track who RECEIVES email from certain people. Doesn't seem the most efficient way, but it would allow the govt to see what IPs were used to read an email from a suspect - could come in very useful.
Bandwidth is a terrible thing to waste :)
True, Cisco bought Aironet. However, they do have additional features that enterprise customers demand. Imagine having hundreds of APs using MAC authentication - gonna put each new MAC in each AP? Will a Linksys accept 1000's of Mac entries? Not likely. We use Avaya (Lucent) APs where I work that cost about $800 (though I've seen them for $400 at one place recently) Why? They support use of an external RADIUS server for authenticaton.
Trust me, I've got a Cisco/Aironet AP and a Linksys. The Cisco has a numerous of features aimed towards the enterprise including a web browser and telnet interface)
But for a small business/home user, the Linksys can't be beat. They've made huge improvment in firmware and clients over the past couple years.
As for the M-1, I'd say their price point is justified for the market they target - people who want an AP they can add custom features to with ease.
Yeah, he's got progressive scan, only gets anamorphic DVDs if he can help it. Of course he thinks it looks fine - maybe its just me :) It varies by DVD, but still its noticable.
He did - it didn't help (let me qualify - it made HDTV pictures look even better, but...) - it really boils down to it being such a large set with such high resolution that artifacts you'd never see on smaller low res sets become very noticable and it makes the picture appear grainy
Do I really want my fridge on the network? Hell no. I want it to keep my beer cold while using the least electricity and I'm smart enough to tell when I'm running out of beer. I don't need some door mounted scanner to try and tell me when there's It comes down to realism and unfortuantely many technical people don't get it. Just because you CAN doesn't mean you should! I pay $50/month for satellite sure - but I also get hundreds of channels - vs the 5 or 8 you used to get in teh 80's via antenna - its worth it. Am I gonna shell out thousnads for HDTV to watch the SAME stuff AND be blocked fr9om taping it for later - hell no. Just like I don't need my desktop PC controlling my AV system (though I WILL have a Linux/PC based A/V server for content - unecrypted content ;) )
Pay per view was supposed to be this major cash cow - but what happened? It only worked for niche markets (fights, WWF nuts, soccer fans, etc)
I will NEVER pay for shows - its not worth it. Especially if they have ads. I will never allow a device in my home that is under the control of outside vendors.
Its rather funny when you think about it. All these content companies are workin so hard to prevent the minorty from pirating, they're gonan drive the majority away. The 90's made companies think consumers didn't care about value anymore - well they're gonan learn. I'll laugh my ass off if things get so heavy handed that people just give up and fidn somethign else (ie turn off the TV) and the networks go bankrupt as the advertisers bolt since nonbody sees their ads anymore. There are maybe 2 or 3 shows a week I'd pay for, but you can bet it wouldn't be more than a dollar a week :) and that's without ads!
They look like garbage. A friend of mine plunked down $3K for a 65" Toshiba HDTV. DVDs - even anamorphic on his top of the line DV Dplayer look BAD. There's a subtle grain/texture that appears - probably artifacts that normal TVs don't show due to less resolution OR due to line doubling. But regardless - he gets pissed when I tell him DVDs look better on my 6 year old Sony TV than on his super HDTV. But its the truth.
Now when he watches a true 1080 HDTV signal, its breathtaking. But how many people think we're gonna see stuff in 1080? Fat chance.