To this day I still use a sony sport walkman, damned near indestructable things, been ground into the pavement under full body weight dozens of times and still keeps on going...for $90 dollars or so that I paid for it how many years ago now, I just can't even fathom spending $600 (CDN) on a device that is pretty much entirely disposable.
Now don't get me wrong, I am yet to see a disc player of any sort or a digital player of any sort made by anybody that isn't built like a cheap piece of shit, this is certainly not an apple only issue... that's just a very good example at the very-expensive-but-still-a-cheap-asssed-piece-of-h ardware end of the scale.
Oh my god, you did read the post I was replying to didn't you? Which stated that if you have problems with windows becoming unstable that the only solution is to reinstall?
How does your response fit in to this at all? Your laptop can't run UT2004 reliably under windows for whatever reason, so fucking what. That has absolutely NOTHING to do with the discussion here.
Now, to address your point, offtopic as it is, I'm running XP on an R40 as well: It's not a gaming machine and you damned well know that. NOBODY out there would EVER suggest it to be such. (Yes, of course it can play games, but that's not what it's designed for) It's IBM's mid-range business application laptop...not even approaching their high end laptops, let alone a current desktop machine with suitable specs to run UT2004 and the like.
And, yes, I damned well WILL tell you it's not the OS' fault: IT'S NOT THE OS' FAULT. Why? a) "misbehaved driver", written by whom? Could it be maybe ATI, or IBM? It's not bloody likely that it is a driver that MS wrote. b) Unsuitable hardware, which I already addressed above.
Circular arguing won't help you any...I can't even tell what your point is.
Why are you arguing with me that Linux beat Windows? You insinuated in your post above that Linux has done everything windows has, but first, which is just not true. Linux evolved from *nix, so did just about every other OS out there today. You're just fudging around with BS to try to support the unformed argument you have.
If you want to compare something, pick a feature and 2 specific operating systems, and then we'll talk, otherwise I'm going to have to assume you're just trolling.
Insightful? Come on now mindless drones...you KNOW better than that, this post is just WRONG.
Anyone who's used Firefox knows it's THE browser for developers...Small, fast, stable, compliant, and HUGELY extendable.
Compared to Firefox, Mozilla has NO developer tools.
Mozilla is for the masses who either a) don't understand that email and web browsing are 2 different things (never-mind ftp etc etc). These are the people who think that a browser IS the internet. Or b) People who are irked by the fact that they have to run IE _and_ Outlook Express.
Um, what rock have you been hiding under for the last 10 years?
Last I checked most of the HPC being done recently is not being done on custom/specialized hardware but rather on commodity x86 hardware running in clusters.
Once again too little too late? Whom controls the desktop market? And does it matter if it was their idea in the first place?
I'm going to get CREAMED for saying this but, what the hell is original in Linux?
You're being brutally near-sighted and hypocritical.
And just in case you can't figure it out, this is in no way an anti-linux post...if I were to require building a cluster I would choose nothing other than Linux...lets just cut the FUD please.
It's the lying and stretching of the truth that does Linux damage, which is pointless because it can stand on it's own merits without relying on FUD about the competition...which is even worse because it's sinking to the level of the competition.
Your point was valid until you threw out that lovely piece of FUD. First because that issue no longer exists at all, Second because if you're running Direct3D on your cluster, that would be YOUR problem. The windows gui does not run in Direct3D.
Which problem exactly requires one to wipe and reinstall windows?
I currently have 3 XP boxes and one 2k box I use regularly. None have been installed more than once, though they've all had their fair share of issues.
(OK, my laptop had to be re-installed, but it was due to an IBM driver issue that wiped my drive, nothing to do with windows, purely hardware)
These boxes have been in use anywhere from 1 year to 4 years.
Your first point is pure FUD. Your second point, while correct technically, is wrong because it doesn't allow for the possibility that MS could, with relative ease, scale back to a pure microkernel build as all that would really be required (for the most part) is removal of services that would have no place in an OS optimized for use in a cluster anyways.
Note, I haven't insinuated that they will actually do anything like this, and I suspect they'll botch this quite well also. My reason for suspecting this is the current state of Windows CE: damned thing has higher hardware requirements than windows 98, and that's after a total ground-up reconstruction for optimization on small devices.
I suspect that they will release some OS that will be great at running clusters, as long as each node in the cluster is a super computer in and of itself.
Ahh, I see, so you're a _good_ nazi...sorry about that.
What's the rule here, if you post correcting a single mistake you're a nazi, and if you post correcting a dozen you're a good kind helpful human being?
Have you concidered the time spent pulling out all of those spelling mistakes? Does it not seem a wee bit pretentious and anal to you? Do you not feel like a public school teacher?
NOBODY around here wants spelling advice, if they wanted that they'd go to school or use a spell checker. And further, people REALLY don't want to hear from the nazis who think they're doing the whole world a favor.
There is a _very_ good reason why the term spelling nazi is used.
Can you see it? Or do you also kindly advise gays and jews of their misguided ways?
No, it is not a stretch, not even a little bit.
Or, if you'd like to go in a totally different direction, have you ever concidered how languages come to be? How they evolve? Are the absolute rules of the english language carved in stone next to the ten commandments? (Never mind the thousands of other languages known to exist)
You're a control freak, plain and simple. Give up, you have no control in this matter.
Anyone ever notice how 1337 speak is apparently ok even though it's usually quite hard to decipher, but if someone spells something wrong god forbid there'll be a lynching?
Christ, I had to actually re-read the offending post to actually look for the spelling mistakes as my brain had NO problem reading it without being so freaking anal.
If you can read it, and get it, then what's the fucking problem people? Let it go already. Oh, right, it's the only way you can let us know just how vastly superior you are to the rest of us, glad to be informed.
Fuck OFF fuck OFF fuck OFF fuck OFF you fucking weenie fucking grammar fucking spelling fucking nazi pice of shit prick fucker!
Come on over to my house and I'll show you a spell-checker you'll never forget...so good in fact that you'll never have (or at least be able to) run another spell-checker ever again, and that's a PROMISE!!!
Burning Karma I know, but every once in a while these FUCKS FUCKING PISS ME RIGHT THE FUCK OFF!
The Canon cameras do indeed suffer from this problem, the Sony's however most deffinately do NOT have this problem.
(Didn't buy a canon because my dad had one and it does this, pisses him off to no end, and worse, he asked about that when purchasing and was told flat out that it was only limited by available memory, bold faced lie)
I've filled a 512mb MemoryStick with a single video, no problem.
Why? a) Obviously spelled differently b) When pronounced correctly, they don't sound the same. c) Googol has a known meaning, and is not a proper name, whereas Google is JUST a proper name (regardless of where it was derived from)
And that would be the end of this frivolous case, move along, nothing to see...
The quote is NOT accurate in Canada. I've been sued, and won, and had to pay my own fees. Fees can be reclaimed in some cases, but it is not automatic by any means and involves a rudimentary counter-suite being filed.
OK, well, AVG on my main system was screaming at me this morning, found a trojan browser-hijacker.
So what right? Well, I haven't had a virus in _years_ now, AND, (here's the kicker), I do NOT run IE, EVER. Firefox exclusively and previous incarnations for years previous.
And no, it most deffinately did not come in through email.
So apparently, the article is correct.
(As well, I NEVER click ok or the like unless I KNOW i initiated installation of something myself, and I haven't seen anything like that anyways in the past few weeks.)
Oh, obviously this works when all files are 10MB. ( ?Huh? )
Sure, there is a possibility that a few people may do what you are suggesting, but why when it can't be managed in any significant way and ftp offers so much more.
What are you talking about? This wouldn't help warez guys in any way, you can't store stuff on an email server and let people download it from an email account, yer on crack man!
This size boost is only good for the account holder, and if you don't use your space, so be it, someone else will use more. You're looking a gift horse in the mouth though for absolutely no reason.
Those bastards, they just gave me more for less, how dare they?
Yes, SLI stands for Scan Line Interleave, but that wasn't the only way that the Voodoo2 could use the connection between 2 cards, if you wanted, you could write code to get the voodoo2's to behave the way the grandparent described.
Secondly, and more importantly, nahh, you're obviously trolling if you can dis the Voodoo2 for what it was at the time...THE card, PERIOD. (No, not for long, but without any doubt at the time it came out it was by FAR the best consumer card available, also cost me twice as much as any card I've purchased since;)
Sucked for years, ok, but compared to what? Have a better option did you?
If it weren't for Matrox, irregardless of your own issues with drivers on your chosen platform, do you think there would be _any_ multi-monitor cards today? And even if there were, do you think they'd be up to the quality that they are now?
Come on, at least give credit where it is due.
Because of Matrox, you can now get a multi-monitor nVidoa or ATI card that is _better_ than a matrox card for your needs.
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And don't even THINK of dropping it.
h ardware end of the scale.
To this day I still use a sony sport walkman, damned near indestructable things, been ground into the pavement under full body weight dozens of times and still keeps on going...for $90 dollars or so that I paid for it how many years ago now, I just can't even fathom spending $600 (CDN) on a device that is pretty much entirely disposable.
Now don't get me wrong, I am yet to see a disc player of any sort or a digital player of any sort made by anybody that isn't built like a cheap piece of shit, this is certainly not an apple only issue... that's just a very good example at the very-expensive-but-still-a-cheap-asssed-piece-of-
Shall I hit you over the head with this clue-stick?
Or have you got it figured out by now?
If you'd posted AC I'd assume you were trolling, but I'm fairly certain you're being sincere.
That would be because the commonly known fact that windows and IIS suck, is actually not a fact at all...don't tell everyone else that though.
This is nothing new, phenomenal, out of the ordinary or exciting, it's just something that certain people can not bring themselves to accept.
Those of us that do run IIS do so quietly and happily.
Oh my god, you did read the post I was replying to didn't you? Which stated that if you have problems with windows becoming unstable that the only solution is to reinstall?
How does your response fit in to this at all?
Your laptop can't run UT2004 reliably under windows for whatever reason, so fucking what. That has absolutely NOTHING to do with the discussion here.
Now, to address your point, offtopic as it is, I'm running XP on an R40 as well: It's not a gaming machine and you damned well know that. NOBODY out there would EVER suggest it to be such. (Yes, of course it can play games, but that's not what it's designed for) It's IBM's mid-range business application laptop...not even approaching their high end laptops, let alone a current desktop machine with suitable specs to run UT2004 and the like.
And, yes, I damned well WILL tell you it's not the OS' fault: IT'S NOT THE OS' FAULT.
Why?
a) "misbehaved driver", written by whom? Could it be maybe ATI, or IBM? It's not bloody likely that it is a driver that MS wrote.
b) Unsuitable hardware, which I already addressed above.
Circular arguing won't help you any...I can't even tell what your point is.
Why are you arguing with me that Linux beat Windows? You insinuated in your post above that Linux has done everything windows has, but first, which is just not true. Linux evolved from *nix, so did just about every other OS out there today. You're just fudging around with BS to try to support the unformed argument you have.
If you want to compare something, pick a feature and 2 specific operating systems, and then we'll talk, otherwise I'm going to have to assume you're just trolling.
Insightful? Come on now mindless drones...you KNOW better than that, this post is just WRONG.
Anyone who's used Firefox knows it's THE browser for developers...Small, fast, stable, compliant, and HUGELY extendable.
Compared to Firefox, Mozilla has NO developer tools.
Mozilla is for the masses who either a) don't understand that email and web browsing are 2 different things (never-mind ftp etc etc). These are the people who think that a browser IS the internet. Or b) People who are irked by the fact that they have to run IE _and_ Outlook Express.
It's a convenience thing.
Um, what rock have you been hiding under for the last 10 years?
Last I checked most of the HPC being done recently is not being done on custom/specialized hardware but rather on commodity x86 hardware running in clusters.
Insightful? Come now.
Once again too little too late?
Whom controls the desktop market?
And does it matter if it was their idea in the first place?
I'm going to get CREAMED for saying this but, what the hell is original in Linux?
You're being brutally near-sighted and hypocritical.
And just in case you can't figure it out, this is in no way an anti-linux post...if I were to require building a cluster I would choose nothing other than Linux...lets just cut the FUD please.
It's the lying and stretching of the truth that does Linux damage, which is pointless because it can stand on it's own merits without relying on FUD about the competition...which is even worse because it's sinking to the level of the competition.
Be better than that, Linux is.
OK, more with the Win95/98 BS.
;)
Your point was valid until you threw out that lovely piece of FUD. First because that issue no longer exists at all, Second because if you're running Direct3D on your cluster, that would be YOUR problem. The windows gui does not run in Direct3D.
Ah, right, an AC post, I've been trolled
Which problem exactly requires one to wipe and reinstall windows?
I currently have 3 XP boxes and one 2k box I use regularly. None have been installed more than once, though they've all had their fair share of issues.
(OK, my laptop had to be re-installed, but it was due to an IBM driver issue that wiped my drive, nothing to do with windows, purely hardware)
These boxes have been in use anywhere from 1 year to 4 years.
Your first point is pure FUD.
Your second point, while correct technically, is wrong because it doesn't allow for the possibility that MS could, with relative ease, scale back to a pure microkernel build as all that would really be required (for the most part) is removal of services that would have no place in an OS optimized for use in a cluster anyways.
Note, I haven't insinuated that they will actually do anything like this, and I suspect they'll botch this quite well also. My reason for suspecting this is the current state of Windows CE: damned thing has higher hardware requirements than windows 98, and that's after a total ground-up reconstruction for optimization on small devices.
I suspect that they will release some OS that will be great at running clusters, as long as each node in the cluster is a super computer in and of itself.
Ahh, I see, so you're a _good_ nazi...sorry about that.
What's the rule here, if you post correcting a single mistake you're a nazi, and if you post correcting a dozen you're a good kind helpful human being?
Have you concidered the time spent pulling out all of those spelling mistakes? Does it not seem a wee bit pretentious and anal to you? Do you not feel like a public school teacher?
NOBODY around here wants spelling advice, if they wanted that they'd go to school or use a spell checker. And further, people REALLY don't want to hear from the nazis who think they're doing the whole world a favor.
There is a _very_ good reason why the term spelling nazi is used.
Can you see it?
Or do you also kindly advise gays and jews of their misguided ways?
No, it is not a stretch, not even a little bit.
Or, if you'd like to go in a totally different direction, have you ever concidered how languages come to be? How they evolve? Are the absolute rules of the english language carved in stone next to the ten commandments? (Never mind the thousands of other languages known to exist)
You're a control freak, plain and simple.
Give up, you have no control in this matter.
Anyone ever notice how 1337 speak is apparently ok even though it's usually quite hard to decipher, but if someone spells something wrong god forbid there'll be a lynching?
Christ, I had to actually re-read the offending post to actually look for the spelling mistakes as my brain had NO problem reading it without being so freaking anal.
If you can read it, and get it, then what's the fucking problem people? Let it go already.
Oh, right, it's the only way you can let us know just how vastly superior you are to the rest of us, glad to be informed.
Fuck OFF fuck OFF fuck OFF fuck OFF you fucking weenie fucking grammar fucking spelling fucking nazi pice of shit prick fucker!
Come on over to my house and I'll show you a spell-checker you'll never forget...so good in fact that you'll never have (or at least be able to) run another spell-checker ever again, and that's a PROMISE!!!
Burning Karma I know, but every once in a while these FUCKS FUCKING PISS ME RIGHT THE FUCK OFF!
The Canon cameras do indeed suffer from this problem, the Sony's however most deffinately do NOT have this problem.
(Didn't buy a canon because my dad had one and it does this, pisses him off to no end, and worse, he asked about that when purchasing and was told flat out that it was only limited by available memory, bold faced lie)
I've filled a 512mb MemoryStick with a single video, no problem.
That IS a valid sentence, and you'd get it if you were one of Steve Martin's children ;)
Google != Googol
Why?
a) Obviously spelled differently
b) When pronounced correctly, they don't sound the same.
c) Googol has a known meaning, and is not a proper name, whereas Google is JUST a proper name (regardless of where it was derived from)
And that would be the end of this frivolous case, move along, nothing to see...
There are all kinds of apps out there that do just that.
I first an app that did that about 4 years ago.
The quote is NOT accurate in Canada.
I've been sued, and won, and had to pay my own fees.
Fees can be reclaimed in some cases, but it is not automatic by any means and involves a rudimentary counter-suite being filed.
OK, well, AVG on my main system was screaming at me this morning, found a trojan browser-hijacker.
;)
So what right?
Well, I haven't had a virus in _years_ now, AND, (here's the kicker), I do NOT run IE, EVER. Firefox exclusively and previous incarnations for years previous.
And no, it most deffinately did not come in through email.
So apparently, the article is correct.
(As well, I NEVER click ok or the like unless I KNOW i initiated installation of something myself, and I haven't seen anything like that anyways in the past few weeks.)
I'd love some more details and a patch
Oh, obviously this works when all files are 10MB.
( ?Huh? )
Sure, there is a possibility that a few people may do what you are suggesting, but why when it can't be managed in any significant way and ftp offers so much more.
What are you talking about?
This wouldn't help warez guys in any way, you can't store stuff on an email server and let people download it from an email account, yer on crack man!
This size boost is only good for the account holder, and if you don't use your space, so be it, someone else will use more. You're looking a gift horse in the mouth though for absolutely no reason.
Those bastards, they just gave me more for less, how dare they?
Yes, SLI stands for Scan Line Interleave, but that wasn't the only way that the Voodoo2 could use the connection between 2 cards, if you wanted, you could write code to get the voodoo2's to behave the way the grandparent described.
;)
Secondly, and more importantly, nahh, you're obviously trolling if you can dis the Voodoo2 for what it was at the time...THE card, PERIOD.
(No, not for long, but without any doubt at the time it came out it was by FAR the best consumer card available, also cost me twice as much as any card I've purchased since
Sucked for years, ok, but compared to what?
Have a better option did you?
If it weren't for Matrox, irregardless of your own issues with drivers on your chosen platform, do you think there would be _any_ multi-monitor cards today? And even if there were, do you think they'd be up to the quality that they are now?
Come on, at least give credit where it is due.
Because of Matrox, you can now get a multi-monitor nVidoa or ATI card that is _better_ than a matrox card for your needs.
Why would we care that he's egyptian?
Get the point?
Stay in school.