It's very cool, but there are some things it can't do.
I've used it to customize install disks for my two laptops. The old laptop install disk is perfect. Everything works perfectly.
This laptop however is not so lucky. None of the drivers I have for it will install through the driver part of nlite, although they look like they will when you try. Instead you end up with the installer complaining about missing files probably 150+ times.
Secondly, I figured that since I already have drivers for my NIC, I could remove the standard one from the install - bad idea on this laptop. It worked with no problems on the old one, but on this one it doesn't. Without the standard windows driver, the NIC "works", as long as you're dealing with packets smaller than 128 bytes for some reason.
None of this is nlite's fault of course - it's down to shoddy drivers obviously, so my suggestion and advice for using nlite is fairly simple:
1) Use a CD-RW (or DVD-RW) until you come up with a really good image that'll work. 2) Start out by NOT removing anything from the install and simply adding to it. When you then go to make a new one, you can use your new image (with all the drivers and addon programs) as a base and slowly remove stuff from it instead.
When you remove stuff, you'll come across odd things that were side effect. For instance, I found that by removing Windows Media Player (I use Media Player Classic myself), you aparently remove all MS codecs as well, so you'll need to add those later. THAT in turn might result in some of your tweaks going right out the window by mistake.
nlite is really cool - but it's not a fix-all that'll make everything right with a few hours of work. But I love the fact taht I can now just pop in the image (for the old laptop at least) and have a very well set up Windows, drivers, programs etc., and be sure that if I give the computer to any family member, it won't be overrun by crappy spyware etc. unless it was embedded in a trojan or makes its way past Firefox and Thunderbird.
Which is to say we are still in the same world, in which low volumes and other issues cause electric cars to be 50%-100$ higher than traditional cars.
Since you usually write "a-b" in such a way, that a is smaller than b, you have some cheap ass cars... from 50 percent to 100$ more expensive. That means the car, at most, costs 200$. Damn.
How about checking before you sew them up - you know - just in case you left something that you WON'T be using for that. Then you can do it agains afterwards of course.
Well, $640k should be enough for any one person for a long time... that'll buy you 10x24 TB of storage and 4x12 TB of storage for a grand total of 288 TB of storage (including the two racks needed) AND a two year service agreement. And that's list price.
288 TB of storage. Hrmm... that's what? 5,760 filled to the brim Blue Ray discs (50 GB for dual layer). That's a pretty decent movie collection right there.
Sure, but if you're ordering many (ie in 10's), you're paying $47,099.50 a piece. Still more expensive tough. But as I understand it you also get the entire rack as well (no clue how cheap that is though).
Also, the one you're linking to is a 7U unit, whereas Sun's is a 4U unit. IOW you can mount I think 6 units from Rackmount or 10 units from Sun, for 144 TB/rack vs 240 TB/rack. (That's with a 42U rack, which I believe is standard).
I won't get into anything wrt servicability, management etc., as I've absolutely no clue about that, nor do I know what clustering is like and bla bla bla.
The point is that while Sun's offering is more expensive/GB, it's also a lot more compact.
You do know that it is illegal to reproduce other's creative works and present them as your own, right? Next time make sure you attribute the stuff you steal as a quote AND the original author.
Since... well, I'm not sure how long, but as long as I can rembmer, and I've used it since 3.x - if you right click on a link, you'll see "Open in background tab" along with the keyboard combination used to do that. Not sure how much easier it can be to find.
I've never understood the "after midnight" thing. Right now it's 9:25 AM, and that's definately after midnight. And 10:30 PM tonight will also be after that very same midnight.
So, what you're saying, is that the only way to practice sedation and starting an effective revolution, is to keep stuff secret from the government?
I suppose that's trolling, but it's also an interesting question. After all, the 2nd amendment is supposed to give you a way to fight an oppressive government, isn't it?
And just what do you think would happen to the American economy? Had a look at American imports lately? Where do you think WalMart gets most of their stuff from?
And imagine for a moment, that the Chinese decided that they weren't going to be nice guys and instead did some nasty things with the US dollar, like, say for instance, demanding that the US paid its debt to China.
Sure, the American market is important to the Chinese economy, but have no illusions that the American economy doesn't need China.
If this guy feels "screwed again", he should do something about it. And I mean write some software, not complain and lobby.
Why the [censored] is this insightfull? It is, if anything, retarded (no pun intended). Are you seriously suggesting, that NOBODY is allowed to make suggestions and/or comments about ANY software, unless they themselves are able to write a replacement for said software?
What the [censored] is wrong with lobbying about the lack of a feature (even if it is a bit misguided to complain about a document format, rather than a reader)? How the [censored] do you expect software developers to come up with neat things (like, say for instance, a nice way for OpenOffice etc. to work with screen writers) if people don't mention the fact, that it is missing? Ask the magic 8 ball?
Why should they be forced to use a proprietary product for a fully open standard, just because they're disabled? Shouldn't this be something that the OSS movement jumped on?
None of this "prodded and dragged, kicking and screaming" crap, but just jump in to it?
I know, I know... scratch an itch, but wouldn't it be cool to actually help those, who need it - instead of just helping yourself?
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It's very cool, but there are some things it can't do.
I've used it to customize install disks for my two laptops. The old laptop install disk is perfect. Everything works perfectly.
This laptop however is not so lucky. None of the drivers I have for it will install through the driver part of nlite, although they look like they will when you try. Instead you end up with the installer complaining about missing files probably 150+ times.
Secondly, I figured that since I already have drivers for my NIC, I could remove the standard one from the install - bad idea on this laptop. It worked with no problems on the old one, but on this one it doesn't. Without the standard windows driver, the NIC "works", as long as you're dealing with packets smaller than 128 bytes for some reason.
None of this is nlite's fault of course - it's down to shoddy drivers obviously, so my suggestion and advice for using nlite is fairly simple:
1) Use a CD-RW (or DVD-RW) until you come up with a really good image that'll work.
2) Start out by NOT removing anything from the install and simply adding to it. When you then go to make a new one, you can use your new image (with all the drivers and addon programs) as a base and slowly remove stuff from it instead.
When you remove stuff, you'll come across odd things that were side effect. For instance, I found that by removing Windows Media Player (I use Media Player Classic myself), you aparently remove all MS codecs as well, so you'll need to add those later. THAT in turn might result in some of your tweaks going right out the window by mistake.
nlite is really cool - but it's not a fix-all that'll make everything right with a few hours of work. But I love the fact taht I can now just pop in the image (for the old laptop at least) and have a very well set up Windows, drivers, programs etc., and be sure that if I give the computer to any family member, it won't be overrun by crappy spyware etc. unless it was embedded in a trojan or makes its way past Firefox and Thunderbird.
How about checking before you sew them up - you know - just in case you left something that you WON'T be using for that. Then you can do it agains afterwards of course.
In other words, if you want to be a really good and devout christian, you have to outlaw capitalism, as that is based on the love of money. Neat ...
Well, $640k should be enough for any one person for a long time ... that'll buy you 10x24 TB of storage and 4x12 TB of storage for a grand total of 288 TB of storage (including the two racks needed) AND a two year service agreement. And that's list price.
... that's what? 5,760 filled to the brim Blue Ray discs (50 GB for dual layer). That's a pretty decent movie collection right there.
288 TB of storage. Hrmm
Sure, but if you're ordering many (ie in 10's), you're paying $47,099.50 a piece. Still more expensive tough. But as I understand it you also get the entire rack as well (no clue how cheap that is though).
Also, the one you're linking to is a 7U unit, whereas Sun's is a 4U unit. IOW you can mount I think 6 units from Rackmount or 10 units from Sun, for 144 TB/rack vs 240 TB/rack. (That's with a 42U rack, which I believe is standard).
I won't get into anything wrt servicability, management etc., as I've absolutely no clue about that, nor do I know what clustering is like and bla bla bla.
The point is that while Sun's offering is more expensive/GB, it's also a lot more compact.
You do know that it is illegal to reproduce other's creative works and present them as your own, right? Next time make sure you attribute the stuff you steal as a quote AND the original author.
In this case - George Carlin.
Since ... well, I'm not sure how long, but as long as I can rembmer, and I've used it since 3.x - if you right click on a link, you'll see "Open in background tab" along with the keyboard combination used to do that. Not sure how much easier it can be to find.
Of course it isn't you dimwit!
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It's just the paperwork
So ... it's like the music industry more than anything?
I've never understood the "after midnight" thing. Right now it's 9:25 AM, and that's definately after midnight. And 10:30 PM tonight will also be after that very same midnight.
Which backup? The one that's a day old? A week? A month? A year? Just how do you figure out WHEN your system was compromised?
First of all, http://picasa.google.com/linux/faq.html doesn't exist.
Didn't really get any further than that.
I have seldom seen a more apt signature for a post.
So, what you're saying, is that the only way to practice sedation and starting an effective revolution, is to keep stuff secret from the government?
I suppose that's trolling, but it's also an interesting question. After all, the 2nd amendment is supposed to give you a way to fight an oppressive government, isn't it?
And just what do you think would happen to the American economy? Had a look at American imports lately? Where do you think WalMart gets most of their stuff from?
And imagine for a moment, that the Chinese decided that they weren't going to be nice guys and instead did some nasty things with the US dollar, like, say for instance, demanding that the US paid its debt to China.
Sure, the American market is important to the Chinese economy, but have no illusions that the American economy doesn't need China.
One thing that makes me wonder ... 3 years and 2,000 servers, you save 20,000 dollars. That's 3.5 dollars a year per server.
Are you entirely sure about those numbers?
Anandtech has a review of two fairly high end cards, that are both passively cooled - a 7600 GS and a 7800 GT
I would, but there are a few problems, the least of which is my inability to program above kindergarten level.
What the [censored] is wrong with lobbying about the lack of a feature (even if it is a bit misguided to complain about a document format, rather than a reader)? How the [censored] do you expect software developers to come up with neat things (like, say for instance, a nice way for OpenOffice etc. to work with screen writers) if people don't mention the fact, that it is missing? Ask the magic 8 ball?
Why should they be forced to use a proprietary product for a fully open standard, just because they're disabled? Shouldn't this be something that the OSS movement jumped on?
... scratch an itch, but wouldn't it be cool to actually help those, who need it - instead of just helping yourself?
None of this "prodded and dragged, kicking and screaming" crap, but just jump in to it?
I know, I know
Monday - 24 hours
Tuesday - 24 hours
Wednesday - 24 hours
That's 72 hours.
Where the hell did you get 28 hours from by Thursday morning?