Is running Open Server 6 right now. We had a power glitch Saturday and again this morning. With each glitch Open Server never recovered even though the box powered back up. If it wasn't bad enough that our IT guys connected this abomination to a UPS with bad batteries, it's taking them over an hour to get the thing up and running again. Now I have had linux and Solaris boxes with no UPS recover just fine from all kinds of power glitches, so this makes me wonder.
Brought to you by SCO, "Downtime" IS our middle name...
DRM will be put into Apple boxen sooner or later. The MPAA/RIAA will force them into it as a requirement to allow Apple to continue to distribute music and movies.
Just more bloat, I thought KDE 2.0 was just fine. I have a 200MHz Ultra 1 with 384 megs of ram and SuSE 7.3 installed. It runs very well for such old hardware. I have 9.3 installed on my IBM 1.7GHz A31p and it runs about as fast as 7.3 on the Ultra 1.
My message to the KDE guys is cut the BLOAT! Focus on usability and speed. Make KDE as configurable as Windows, there are WAY TOO MANY configuration options in KDE now. I am looking at Windowmaker more and more these days.
I used to have my answering machine play my greeting in RTTY. It certainly reduced the number of calls I got to almost 0. But since then I droped the land line service for cellular. Now I am in control once again..... for now.
When I watched Battlestar Galactica when it was first aired I immediately recognized all the test equipment they had set up as ship controls and monitoring stations. Now if THAT is not geek enough I don't know what is.
So since when have they altered the laws of physics? This is just BPL with a new name. No matter how much money you throw at it, BPL will still be BPL, it's a kludge at best. But I'm sure Google has the money to blow on a dead end project such as this.
All this re-naming is getting silly, I suggest they rename Firefox to JAB (just another web browser) and Thunderbird to JAM (just another mail client). That ought to take care of this for a while:)
I still use VHS tapes to record Some of my CD and mp3 collection to. I have a very good quality Sony SVO 1610 HI-FI VHS VTR that records so well you more or less cannot tell if it's the CD or tape. This method works great for playing hours worth of music, and best of all there's NO DRM!I can even find butt loads of new blank tapes at thrift shops for $.25.
I even have tapes I recorded back in the 80's that still sound just as good as the day I recorded them, try that with a CD-R.
I wonder if they will show super violent Itchy and Scratchy cartoons. Hopefully they will age the characters where Bart is a no job stoner who lives in the basement, Lisa gets married to a computer nerd and Maggie is a high school slut.
Now this is what geekness is all about. I remember back in the 80's while in school I designed a digital clock built entirely from TTL devices. Sure I could of just used a off the shelf clock chip, but that would be too easy.
All this guy did was probably change the file attributes and or permissions. It's been my experience that most "Windows" computer users have no clue how to change them or answer "permissions? attributes? what are these terms you speak of?"
The problem is that interference is a two way street. So far, most hams have not gotten so pissed that they just to decide to transmit in a BPL serviced area anyway, completely disrupting YOUR BPL service in the process. If your service had constant disruptions would you still use it? You were better off with Comcast. If I came up with a new Internet service that completely disrupted your cellular service would you still like it? And every time you tried to use your cell phone it disrupted your Internet service? I think not, this is what BPL does to the shortwave bands.
If Microsoft built cars and I got into a crash, would the air bag deamon would pop up a dialog window on the windshield "Are you sure you want to deploy air bags? Y/N?"
Where I live my only option is Comcast. I use my T-Mobile hotspot service (sync T-1) with my laptop but would gladly sign up for something like this. Hell is going to freeze over before I pay Comcast 49.95 a month for their restrictive take it bundled or else Internet service.
Until I can receive some sort of free basic programming like I do off rabbit ears, it will be very unlikely I'll pay some grossly inflated "subscription" fee to watch TV. I haven't had cable TV in 10+ years, and quite frankly haven't missed it. I get my news and info via the web, broadcast radio and the interesting stuff from shortwave. The real reason for this switch is to free up radio spectrum, spectrum that can be used for many other things. Secondly are the broadcast control freaks who have rammed the "broadcast flag" down out throats, it's just as annoying as the unskipable adds on DVDs.
The 2006 deadline will probably be extended for what ever reason. But when the day finally does come, I'll be relatively unaffected by this. They will eventually want to do this with AM and FM broadcast as well, the ruse will be "better fidelity" but will really be a subscription you will have to pay for.
Not at the moment, but I plan on trying this in the future. The "free phone" I got with the service doesn't even support a PC connection. But they do offer a 200+ dollar PCMCIA card that does.
I also had problems with Verizon. I went from being able to get DSL to not being able to get it, and when I asked about naked DSL the support person was dumbfounded. This was also met with the usual "We have no plans to upgrade the DSLAM equipment in the CO you are connected to."
My answer was "cancel my phone service please." Since then I have been using T-Mobile hot spots for my access and where ever I can find a open access point. With T-Mobile I get synchronous T-1, and since I am a T-Mobile subscriber I get the T-Mobile hot spot use for $19.95 a month. Yeah it's kind of a pain in the ass, but Comcast costs WAY too much and Verizon can stick it till they offer naked DSL in my area.
I sure miss not being able to run my own servers:(
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Is running Open Server 6 right now. We had a power glitch Saturday and again this morning. With each glitch Open Server never recovered even though the box powered back up. If it wasn't bad enough that our IT guys connected this abomination to a UPS with bad batteries, it's taking them over an hour to get the thing up and running again. Now I have had linux and Solaris boxes with no UPS recover just fine from all kinds of power glitches, so this makes me wonder.
Brought to you by SCO, "Downtime" IS our middle name...
DRM will be put into Apple boxen sooner or later. The MPAA/RIAA will force them into it as a requirement to allow Apple to continue to distribute music and movies.
You mean to tell me that SCO is a software company and not the Sue happy Corporation Of america.
Just more bloat, I thought KDE 2.0 was just fine. I have a 200MHz Ultra 1 with 384 megs of ram and SuSE 7.3 installed. It runs very well for such old hardware. I have 9.3 installed on my IBM 1.7GHz A31p and it runs about as fast as 7.3 on the Ultra 1.
My message to the KDE guys is cut the BLOAT! Focus on usability and speed. Make KDE as configurable as Windows, there are WAY TOO MANY configuration options in KDE now. I am looking at Windowmaker more and more these days.
I used to have my answering machine play my greeting in RTTY. It certainly reduced the number of calls I got to almost 0. But since then I droped the land line service for cellular. Now I am in control once again..... for now.
When I watched Battlestar Galactica when it was first aired I immediately recognized all the test equipment they had set up as ship controls and monitoring stations. Now if THAT is not geek enough I don't know what is.
So since when have they altered the laws of physics? This is just BPL with a new name. No matter how much money you throw at it, BPL will still be BPL, it's a kludge at best. But I'm sure Google has the money to blow on a dead end project such as this.
All this re-naming is getting silly, I suggest they rename Firefox to JAB (just another web browser) and Thunderbird to JAM (just another mail client). That ought to take care of this for a while :)
I still use VHS tapes to record Some of my CD and mp3 collection to. I have a very good quality Sony SVO 1610 HI-FI VHS VTR that records so well you more or less cannot tell if it's the CD or tape. This method works great for playing hours worth of music, and best of all there's NO DRM!I can even find butt loads of new blank tapes at thrift shops for $.25.
I even have tapes I recorded back in the 80's that still sound just as good as the day I recorded them, try that with a CD-R.
I wonder if they will show super violent Itchy and Scratchy cartoons. Hopefully they will age the characters where Bart is a no job stoner who lives in the basement, Lisa gets married to a computer nerd and Maggie is a high school slut.
Is that Bill Gates will have "seen the light" and releases all the windows source to the public domain.
Now this is what geekness is all about. I remember back in the 80's while in school I designed a digital clock built entirely from TTL devices. Sure I could of just used a off the shelf clock chip, but that would be too easy.
Yet another device that can be disabled from a nearby CB radio :)
All this guy did was probably change the file attributes and or permissions. It's been my experience that most "Windows" computer users have no clue how to change them or answer "permissions? attributes? what are these terms you speak of?"
Thank god I own my own computer. All hail open access points!!
The problem is that interference is a two way street. So far, most hams have not gotten so pissed that they just to decide to transmit in a BPL serviced area anyway, completely disrupting YOUR BPL service in the process. If your service had constant disruptions would you still use it? You were better off with Comcast. If I came up with a new Internet service that completely disrupted your cellular service would you still like it? And every time you tried to use your cell phone it disrupted your Internet service? I think not, this is what BPL does to the shortwave bands.
If Microsoft built cars and I got into a crash, would the air bag deamon would pop up a dialog window on the windshield "Are you sure you want to deploy air bags? Y/N?"
Instead of wasting my tax dollars on this try my idea first, a $.50 bullet in the head, point blank. Problem solved.
Where I live my only option is Comcast. I use my T-Mobile hotspot service (sync T-1) with my laptop but would gladly sign up for something like this. Hell is going to freeze over before I pay Comcast 49.95 a month for their restrictive take it bundled or else Internet service.
I have a IBM A31p, the screen is 15" and runs at 1600x1200. I would NEVER buy a laptop that does anything less...
Until I can receive some sort of free basic programming like I do off rabbit ears, it will be very unlikely I'll pay some grossly inflated "subscription" fee to watch TV. I haven't had cable TV in 10+ years, and quite frankly haven't missed it. I get my news and info via the web, broadcast radio and the interesting stuff from shortwave. The real reason for this switch is to free up radio spectrum, spectrum that can be used for many other things. Secondly are the broadcast control freaks who have rammed the "broadcast flag" down out throats, it's just as annoying as the unskipable adds on DVDs.
The 2006 deadline will probably be extended for what ever reason. But when the day finally does come, I'll be relatively unaffected by this. They will eventually want to do this with AM and FM broadcast as well, the ruse will be "better fidelity" but will really be a subscription you will have to pay for.
When I bought a gig PC-133 back in 2000 it cost me nearly $1024
Not at the moment, but I plan on trying this in the future. The "free phone" I got with the service doesn't even support a PC connection. But they do offer a 200+ dollar PCMCIA card that does.
I also had problems with Verizon. I went from being able to get DSL to not being able to get it, and when I asked about naked DSL the support person was dumbfounded. This was also met with the usual "We have no plans to upgrade the DSLAM equipment in the CO you are connected to."
:(
My answer was "cancel my phone service please." Since then I have been using T-Mobile hot spots for my access and where ever I can find a open access point. With T-Mobile I get synchronous T-1, and since I am a T-Mobile subscriber I get the T-Mobile hot spot use for $19.95 a month. Yeah it's kind of a pain in the ass, but Comcast costs WAY too much and Verizon can stick it till they offer naked DSL in my area.
I sure miss not being able to run my own servers