"Can you imagine the shocked faces seen around the world if it was announced that StuffHauler Inc, a long time Ford customer, was trying out GM brand vehicles? Me too, people would find it hard to believe!"
More likely if Buck was trying out Ford brand vehicles. In case you missed it IBM created the PC standard that Microsoft rode to world domination. Throw in that IBM is a HUGE company and that they have a very large influence on the tech industry and I think you are way off base in your downplaying this.
Of course the original post holds true. Complain to the hardware manufacture. Intel has provided drivers for there hardware. Most distros have it included and Intel has it available on it's website.
Right now AMD has some great CPUs on the low end and the best integrated graphics solution. A huge number of PCs never pay a game more graphically intensive than Tetris and are never used to transcode video! Right now on newegg you can pick up an Athlon X2 64 4000 for $53.99 The cheapest Core2Duo is $124.99. Yes it is faster but will you notice? Most people probably will not.
Not really. No answer on what video card. Any halfway modern video card will be supported. nVidia, ATI, and Intel all provide good support for Linux as well as Windows. No real answer on what WiFi adapter. Again I have installed Linux a few differn't notebooks and have used a few different PCMCIA WiFi adapters. They all work.
So on other words I think that orignal post was full of bull.
AS to who to complain at. Real simple answer. The hardware manufacture. Where are the drivers for Linux? They make and sell the hardware so they should provide the drivers. If you get them with the OS that is a double bonus for you.
Since Intel, nVidia, and ATI all have good support under Linux just what video card are you using? Card reader? Mine works fine and so does everyone that I have seen. All of the ones I have seen look like a USB mass storage device. WiFi adapter? I have heard that they can be a problem but I have not had any issues. Intel's just work. If they don't contact the manufacture and ask them for the drivers. If they don't offer them then well you picked hardware that doesn't support Linux. Kind of like those people that have printers and other devices that don't work with Vista...
I have found that Linux works just great on my desktop at home. The only reasons I jump into Windows if FS2004 and FSX. Linux just seems faster and I have less to worry about than with WindowsXP. My wife finds Linux just as frendly and easy to use. The only thing lacking in Linux for my wife and I are some specfic programs. My wife really wants ACDC for Linux as well as infraview. I want FS2004 and FSX but I am not holding my breath.
Using a heat recovery system on your AC, turning off lights, car pooling, there are lots of things you can do to cut down on power that cost less and are very effective. Of course then adding a windmill and or solar after that would be great. What I really want is for the off switch to be the off switch. I have to wonder just how much power is being wasted on monitors, TV, DVD players, wireless phones, PS3s, Wiis, 360s.... You get the idea.
Install Ubuntu. Works great, 3-D effects on the desktop. Does everything that most people need. The only stupid pet tricks are the ones that you need to do to get DVDs to play. Thanks DMCA for that one. Other than that I find it as user friendly as WindowsXP and it seems a lot faster.
BTW I work with at a software company that writes software that runs under Windows. Even the most pro windows drone here has fallen back to "I am sure Microsoft will fix it soon". Don't bother with the it works just fine for me stories. I can put you in touch with people that have had no problems with 98 and ME and are still using them.
Ummm.. This was such a big joke and it seemed to fly over everyone's head. Slashdot was Slashdot.org long before they bought the.com domain..org for better or worse is available to anyone that wants it. I wish that.net was still limited to ISPs and hosting companies, org was limited to not for profits, and com for for profit sites but that just isn't the way that it is.
I would have to say that doesn't fit with your first post. "MacOS has made great strides in woo'ing the "stylish elite", and the "wealthy cool kids"....but they still lack a wide selection of applications, and the price-point that would convert the "average web surfer". The average websurfer doesn't care about scientific apps, collaboration tools or too many niche programs. As far as accounting goes for the average user Mac does have Quicken. That is what most average people use. Also the mac includes a nice set of software that fills the needs of the average user. Most average users I know use a browser and maybe an email program, Quicken, TurboTax, some photo software, and ITunes. They may use Office. Games is the only big thing I see missing for the "average home user" but I have to admit that a lot of average home users just don't play games on there PCs all that much. Most PC games are just too complex for the average user. BTW I am a Windows and Linux user. I can go Mac or all Linux at home because I love to play FS2004 and FSX.
I really don't consider myself pro right. Frankly I am not a big fan of McCain. I might even vote for Clinton if she gets the nomination. I will not vote for Obama. My wife who is a proud Demarcate since she turned 18 will not vote for Obama. As the extreme right and the left goes. "A pox on both their houses!"
I guess I shouldn't meantion that you could spend more money on education without cutting the space program by cutting spending in other areas or increasing taxes.
Maybe I think that it will not help education one bit. The time in US history when education was at it's best happens to be the same time when spending on the space program was it's highest.
Sorry but exactly why do you think that Obama really wants any more true political awareness than any other political leader?
All to often "Political Awareness" means indoctrination into think the way we feel they should.
Let me see. Obama supports killing a big chunk of the space program for no good reason and lists a racist as a personal hero. Yea I am sure that he is the type of leader I want... Dang I really want a Democrat like Truman, FDR, or even Carter that I could feel good about.
Well i think your being a little myoptic. I have heard this same claptrap. Why waste all that money on space, looking for little green men, studying the life cycle of spiders, pick your favorite science program. It is damaging feel good crap. No different than a town near me. They had a big problem with drugs and prostitution. So they closed the topless bars. Looks like you are doing something with out really doing anything useful.
If the US puts off it's space program for a few years. Thousands if not tens of thousands of people will loose their jobs. NASA will loose tens of thousands of skilled workers. And a lot fewer talented people will want to work in the space program so when they try to bring it back on line it will be a shadow of it's self. How do I know this? It is what happened last time.
What your describing may or may not work. It may work for a database server but for many applications it will not. Even data mirroring across a cluster isn't a sure thing. What happens if your switch fails. Then how many users will it support. Will it have completely transparent fall over? There is a very good reason why people with a huge amount of experience will pick a mainframe over a cluster of white boxes. The real question is have you set up a cluster that supports over 500 simultaneous users doing a transaction heavy workload that has over two years of uptime? If not then you are just talking out of your hat.
Yes but a Z machine is a HUGE investment. What if you only need 200 front ends then next week 220 front ends. Also if a font end dies it really isn't that big of a deal for some applications. I am a big fan of heavy metal but just like the people that think that white boxes are the perfect solution for everything. For some places it is a mainframe, others will be a mid range, for others it will be white box servers. Now for big database servers, I don't think anything can match big iron.
Okay I have a dog and a fenced yard. Guess what. That dog has dug under my fence more than once. I would love to have one of these. It would be I would rather have it tell me when she is under ground level so I could catch her digging.
With what OS? 100% uptime also means 100% data integrity. If you have one white box crash and you loose some data or you have to switch user to the other box then you have down time. Can you add more ram to that whitebox without taking it down, add a CPU, or even swap out the power supply? Some with boxes will have hot swappable power supplies but very few have hot swappable ram or CPUs. And 100% uptime for how long? One week, one month, one year? Big iron will have uptimes measured in years or decades. Your right about white boxes for web front ends and other system. They are really the way to go. And if your Google white boxes may also work for your search engine. If your a bank, hospital, credit card company, or widget maker then probably not. That is why big iron exists and people pay for it.
And just why is 384 kbps upstream just about unusable? I have no problems using it. SSH works just fine. I can view streaming video just fine. Sure it would great to have ADSL2 cheap but your claims that is unusable just doesn't make a lot of sense.
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Yea I was thinking the exact same thing. That is a Centuri Space Shuttle...
Wonder if it is meant to be a joke.
"Can you imagine the shocked faces seen around the world if it was announced that StuffHauler Inc, a long time Ford customer, was trying out GM brand vehicles? Me too, people would find it hard to believe!"
More likely if Buck was trying out Ford brand vehicles. In case you missed it IBM created the PC standard that Microsoft rode to world domination.
Throw in that IBM is a HUGE company and that they have a very large influence on the tech industry and I think you are way off base in your downplaying this.
This is a HUGE slap in the face to Microsoft.
'as officers of the Court the benefit of the doubt,'
Wrong!
As officers of the Court they should be held to a higher standard. Sloppy isn't an excuse.
Driver support for the Intel 945.
http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/CS-020683.htm
I found graphics drivers for linux for most flavors of the 945.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Device/Broadcom_BCM4311_rev_01_(ndiswrapper)
You have to use ndiswrapper to get it working because Broadcom doesn't provide docs or drivers. Some distros seem to have a patch that does have this card working right now. I have heard Mepis is one of them.
Of course the original post holds true. Complain to the hardware manufacture. Intel has provided drivers for there hardware. Most distros have it included and Intel has it available on it's website.
Right now AMD has some great CPUs on the low end and the best integrated graphics solution.
A huge number of PCs never pay a game more graphically intensive than Tetris and are never used to transcode video!
Right now on newegg you can pick up an Athlon X2 64 4000 for $53.99
The cheapest Core2Duo is $124.99. Yes it is faster but will you notice? Most people probably will not.
Not really.
No answer on what video card. Any halfway modern video card will be supported. nVidia, ATI, and Intel all provide good support for Linux as well as Windows.
No real answer on what WiFi adapter. Again I have installed Linux a few differn't notebooks and have used a few different PCMCIA WiFi adapters. They all work.
So on other words I think that orignal post was full of bull.
AS to who to complain at. Real simple answer. The hardware manufacture. Where are the drivers for Linux? They make and sell the hardware so they should provide the drivers. If you get them with the OS that is a double bonus for you.
Since Intel, nVidia, and ATI all have good support under Linux just what video card are you using?
Card reader? Mine works fine and so does everyone that I have seen. All of the ones I have seen look like a USB mass storage device.
WiFi adapter? I have heard that they can be a problem but I have not had any issues. Intel's just work.
If they don't contact the manufacture and ask them for the drivers.
If they don't offer them then well you picked hardware that doesn't support Linux.
Kind of like those people that have printers and other devices that don't work with Vista...
I have found that Linux works just great on my desktop at home. The only reasons I jump into Windows if FS2004 and FSX.
Linux just seems faster and I have less to worry about than with WindowsXP.
My wife finds Linux just as frendly and easy to use.
The only thing lacking in Linux for my wife and I are some specfic programs.
My wife really wants ACDC for Linux as well as infraview.
I want FS2004 and FSX but I am not holding my breath.
Not exactly.
In most states they pay you the retail price for power up until you reach a $0 bill. Once you hit the $0 bill they pay wholesale prices.
Using a heat recovery system on your AC, turning off lights, car pooling, there are lots of things you can do to cut down on power that cost less and are very effective.
Of course then adding a windmill and or solar after that would be great.
What I really want is for the off switch to be the off switch.
I have to wonder just how much power is being wasted on monitors, TV, DVD players, wireless phones, PS3s, Wiis, 360s....
You get the idea.
Install Ubuntu. Works great, 3-D effects on the desktop. Does everything that most people need. The only stupid pet tricks are the ones that you need to do to get DVDs to play. Thanks DMCA for that one. Other than that I find it as user friendly as WindowsXP and it seems a lot faster.
BTW I work with at a software company that writes software that runs under Windows. Even the most pro windows drone here has fallen back to "I am sure Microsoft will fix it soon". Don't bother with the it works just fine for me stories. I can put you in touch with people that have had no problems with 98 and ME and are still using them.
Vista is a major pain with no gain.
Funny but I thought it was pretty common knowlege. I think I saw it on a history show on HBO 20+ years ago.
Ummm.. This was such a big joke and it seemed to fly over everyone's head. .com domain. .org for better or worse is available to anyone that wants it. .net was still limited to ISPs and hosting companies, org was limited to not for profits, and com for for profit sites but that just isn't the way that it is.
Slashdot was Slashdot.org long before they bought the
I wish that
I would have to say that doesn't fit with your first post.
"MacOS has made great strides in woo'ing the "stylish elite", and the "wealthy cool kids"....but they still lack a wide selection of applications, and the price-point that would convert the "average web surfer".
The average websurfer doesn't care about scientific apps, collaboration tools or too many niche programs.
As far as accounting goes for the average user Mac does have Quicken. That is what most average people use. Also the mac includes a nice set of software that fills the needs of the average user.
Most average users I know use a browser and maybe an email program, Quicken, TurboTax, some photo software, and ITunes. They may use Office.
Games is the only big thing I see missing for the "average home user" but I have to admit that a lot of average home users just don't play games on there PCs all that much. Most PC games are just too complex for the average user.
BTW I am a Windows and Linux user. I can go Mac or all Linux at home because I love to play FS2004 and FSX.
I really don't consider myself pro right. Frankly I am not a big fan of McCain. I might even vote for Clinton if she gets the nomination. I will not vote for Obama.
My wife who is a proud Demarcate since she turned 18 will not vote for Obama.
As the extreme right and the left goes.
"A pox on both their houses!"
I guess I shouldn't meantion that you could spend more money on education without cutting the space program by cutting spending in other areas or increasing taxes.
Dude listen to what his pastor and his personal hero preached from the pulpit.
If you don't think it was racist just what do you think it is?
Maybe I think that it will not help education one bit.
The time in US history when education was at it's best happens to be the same time when spending on the space program was it's highest.
Sorry but exactly why do you think that Obama really wants any more true political awareness than any other political leader?
All to often "Political Awareness" means indoctrination into think the way we feel they should.
Let me see. Obama supports killing a big chunk of the space program for no good reason and lists a racist as a personal hero.
Yea I am sure that he is the type of leader I want...
Dang I really want a Democrat like Truman, FDR, or even Carter that I could feel good about.
Well i think your being a little myoptic. I have heard this same claptrap. Why waste all that money on space, looking for little green men, studying the life cycle of spiders, pick your favorite science program. It is damaging feel good crap.
No different than a town near me. They had a big problem with drugs and prostitution. So they closed the topless bars. Looks like you are doing something with out really doing anything useful.
If the US puts off it's space program for a few years. Thousands if not tens of thousands of people will loose their jobs. NASA will loose tens of thousands of skilled workers. And a lot fewer talented people will want to work in the space program so when they try to bring it back on line it will be a shadow of it's self.
How do I know this?
It is what happened last time.
What your describing may or may not work. It may work for a database server but for many applications it will not. Even data mirroring across a cluster isn't a sure thing. What happens if your switch fails. Then how many users will it support. Will it have completely transparent fall over? There is a very good reason why people with a huge amount of experience will pick a mainframe over a cluster of white boxes.
The real question is have you set up a cluster that supports over 500 simultaneous users doing a transaction heavy workload that has over two years of uptime?
If not then you are just talking out of your hat.
Yes but a Z machine is a HUGE investment. What if you only need 200 front ends then next week 220 front ends. Also if a font end dies it really isn't that big of a deal for some applications.
I am a big fan of heavy metal but just like the people that think that white boxes are the perfect solution for everything. For some places it is a mainframe, others will be a mid range, for others it will be white box servers.
Now for big database servers, I don't think anything can match big iron.
Okay I have a dog and a fenced yard. Guess what. That dog has dug under my fence more than once. I would love to have one of these. It would be I would rather have it tell me when she is under ground level so I could catch her digging.
With what OS?
100% uptime also means 100% data integrity. If you have one white box crash and you loose some data or you have to switch user to the other box then you have down time.
Can you add more ram to that whitebox without taking it down, add a CPU, or even swap out the power supply? Some with boxes will have hot swappable power supplies but very few have hot swappable ram or CPUs.
And 100% uptime for how long?
One week, one month, one year?
Big iron will have uptimes measured in years or decades.
Your right about white boxes for web front ends and other system. They are really the way to go. And if your Google white boxes may also work for your search engine.
If your a bank, hospital, credit card company, or widget maker then probably not.
That is why big iron exists and people pay for it.
And just why is 384 kbps upstream just about unusable?
I have no problems using it. SSH works just fine. I can view streaming video just fine.
Sure it would great to have ADSL2 cheap but your claims that is unusable just doesn't make a lot of sense.