Well since I have had my doubts that the FOSS community really can write better drivers than AMD or NVidia this will be interesting. Of course this is one of those times when I will be very happy to be wrong.
That isn't the issue. The interfaces are pretty stable other wise you couldn't just recompile most drivers when the new kernel comes out. What is missing is a stable binary interface. I am all for a binary interface. The developers don't want a binary interface for what I feel are bad reasons. But they are the devs and they get to make that call even if I don't like it.
Your room mate needs to get a clue. What is his 'computing' degree in? It sure as shooting isn't going to be in CS. That being said does anyone know how to make Windows case sensitive? I just installed Ubuntu. I would have to put it down as being as easy to use as Windows if not easier. I have not needed to use the command line once. Getting everything working was no problem. Getting it working on my notebook was too easy. It just worked including the WiFI. My wife is having no problem with Linux on her desktop and it just works for her. Again no problems and no need to use the command line. BTW you don't need to use ls -l to see your config files. Just tell the file manager to show hidden files. If you want Linux to just work then I suggest that you try Ubuntu. If you have supported hardware you will probably have as close to a trouble free experience as anything I have ever used. Ubuntu has changed Linux. I was shocked how really good it is. Oh I am using it right now.
Since the impact will probably be close to head on probably not. Will some end up in a higher orbit? Yes They me take a few more days or weeks to re-enter. Will any end up in a orbit high enough to make a difference? I really doubt it.
I agree Atlanta Bread Company is also a pretty big chain. As is the other place a mentioned. The funny thing is I both Panera and Atlanta Bread much more that Starbucks. They have a lot better food. Coffee? Well I don't drink Coffee so what do I know?
One does wonder how anybody with 100 million after seeing all the rulings on this case go against SCO would be STUPID enough to think this is a good idea. Maybe they are going to sue the lawyers for getting them into this. Or Microsoft for talking them into this....
Not really. The US satellite is in a very low orbit It is decaying so the pieces will decay as well. The Chinese satellite was in a pretty high altitude and the junk will take a very long time. The only real issue that this will cause if the impact actually imparts enough energy in the correct direction to push some of the fragments into a much higher orbit. That is going to be very unlikely since the intercept will probably not be a tail chase. Odds are they will target this just before it is do to renter to prevent that from happening. The intercept should reduce the danger of any really big pieces actually making it to earth and hitting anything important.
So yea you are pretty much making an anti us rant with no real basis in facts.
Or a wrist watch, card in the wallet, earring... Actually Gerard O'Neill in his book about space colonies wrote about an ID anklet that would unlock doors and allow you to buy stuff. He went with an anklet because wouldn't class with their outfit.
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Why? On my version of Ubuntu that I just installed it is working just fine and is pretty fast. Most of the problems with X have to do with the current implementation and not with X. Improving X is what needs to be done.
Okay I will give you that but then they need to disclose this in all their ads. Every add for "Internet access" needs to include bandwidth limits, ports blocked, and what parts of the internet they include or don't.
"All these plans would not be that necessary if the USA kept out of other countries' business. But we will not leave them alone." The USA tried that. It was called isolationism. The result was WWII. The funny thing is that other countries don't want the USA out of their business. When things where bad in the Balkans, people kept asking where was the USA? When a disaster hits people ask where is the USA?
Not at all. But did you read the article? For one thing it isn't from the US at all. It is from Spain. Second does anyone on the planet question the fact that pedophiles use the the Internet to exchange data? Third many studies have shown that repeated exposure to porn decreases ones sensitivity to it. But my main criticism is of Slashdot posting this to the front page at all. Why post a small blurb from a site most people would never see that lacks any facts? So that people on Slashdot can circle the wagons and defend themselves against this fluff article.
VirtualBox seems to work really well. On an AMD AM2 machine I have run Vista Home with no problems. On my older AMD machine I have run Ubuntu, Kbuntu, Xbuntu, PCLinux, and Minux3 with no problems. Under Ubuntu you just install it from add software. The GUI is pretty simple and It seems to work just fine.
No they are loosing money because of the file sharers. Actually I am not fond of the media companies or the file sharers for the same reason. People should get paid for their work.
"At least on my enviro, near line is not part of the "enterprisey" backup/restore procedure but a convenience for end users (a *big* convenience, by the way) if (yes, a big "if") we could better manage that dispersed underused storage it certainly would be a very intersting gain (hey, dream is for free, isn't it?)." Yea dreaming is free but I fear that for all the reasons I pointed out that it is a really bad idea. Just not the best use of resources or even the right way of looking at the problem. The Problem is "I got a bunch of resources that are not being used." The solution is don't keep them around.
Often articles posted on Slashdot don't have any supporting data. However if the article said that that was no connection between pedophilia and the Internet and still cited no data to back it up would you be calling that into question? There was a study on how violent video games caused changes to the brain. Go and take a look at the comments posted on that. Maybe a better question is why would blurb with no supporting data make it to the front page of Slashdot?
"I found it odd that the whole article goes on talking about how pedophiles use the Internet to get photos and contact other pedophiles. But he never once talks about how it has empowered his organization to receive tips, track these people, pose as children to catch them, pose as other pedophiles to gain evidence, etc." Honestly probably because in this case the benefit doesn't out weigh the problems. The Internet doesn't cause pedophilia but I bet it really does help pedophiles trade pictures and it may actually encourage those that have the tendency to act on it. What I find so interesting is how people on Slashdot are so willing to dismiss any data that they don't believe. It doesn't matter if it is about porn, pedophilia, or video games. If some data says that the Internet makes some problem worse then they will circle the wagons.
Not at all. There is just no value in an on-site decentralized backup. It would be very complex. It would require that the backup data be encrypted not a terrible thing but still an extra layer of complexity. It would require that the data be be stored in multiple places spread over the workstations of the network. It would require that most of the machine be powered up all them time. A real waste of power. An you would gain... Nothing. You wouldn't want to replace you centralized on-site backup system with it. You wouldn't want to replace you off site back up system with it. So what would you gain but a lot of complexity.
A decentralized off-site backup system does have value. I could see you mirroring data at multiple sites in a multi-site company. But I wouldn't use the desktops to do it. The best solution for a company described would be to get rid of the HDs all together. Boot from the network card and use NAS for the user data. Fewer hard drives to fail, Fewer hard drives to wipe when you dispose of the computer, few hard drives to power, and few hard drives to cool. Yes you would make the network a single point of failure but that is already the case in most places. But you would have more resources available to make the network as reliable as possible.
I wasn't thinking about a thin client. Just a PC that boots off the network. You could use a NAS or even a SAN to provide a local drive for each machine but they would be sitting down in your server room.
One you don't backup your enterprise level database to some random pc in a cube. You will back up on to tape. You will multiple backups some of which will be in a fire resistant safe and some that will be in a safe off-site. You will also probably mirror your data at an off-site location as well.
Yep a better question is Why do all these PCs have harddrives? If they are really only using it for the OS, a few applications, and a few docs why not use diskless workstations? Less power, heat, and fewer things to break. In other words don't use all those drives, get ride of all of them.
The speed issue probably has more to do with Ram than the CPU. This chipset uses FB ram. It is a good bit slower then DDR2 or DDR3 desktop ram. The other issue has to do with the FSB. I read that the Intel memory system starts to falter at 4+cores. Memory access is one of the few areas where AMD still has an advantage.
He spoke for Linus. That is fine Linux is FOSS so anyone can take a copy of the source and make it into anything they want as long as they keep the GPL. Ubuntu is different from Openfiler is different from DSL, which is different from RHEL... Yet they are all Linux.
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Well since I have had my doubts that the FOSS community really can write better drivers than AMD or NVidia this will be interesting. Of course this is one of those times when I will be very happy to be wrong.
That isn't the issue. The interfaces are pretty stable other wise you couldn't just recompile most drivers when the new kernel comes out. What is missing is a stable binary interface. I am all for a binary interface. The developers don't want a binary interface for what I feel are bad reasons. But they are the devs and they get to make that call even if I don't like it.
Your room mate needs to get a clue. What is his 'computing' degree in? It sure as shooting isn't going to be in CS.
That being said does anyone know how to make Windows case sensitive?
I just installed Ubuntu. I would have to put it down as being as easy to use as Windows if not easier. I have not needed to use the command line once. Getting everything working was no problem. Getting it working on my notebook was too easy. It just worked including the WiFI.
My wife is having no problem with Linux on her desktop and it just works for her. Again no problems and no need to use the command line.
BTW you don't need to use ls -l to see your config files. Just tell the file manager to show hidden files.
If you want Linux to just work then I suggest that you try Ubuntu. If you have supported hardware you will probably have as close to a trouble free experience as anything I have ever used.
Ubuntu has changed Linux. I was shocked how really good it is.
Oh I am using it right now.
Since the impact will probably be close to head on probably not.
Will some end up in a higher orbit? Yes They me take a few more days or weeks to re-enter. Will any end up in a orbit high enough to make a difference? I really doubt it.
I agree Atlanta Bread Company is also a pretty big chain. As is the other place a mentioned. The funny thing is I both Panera and Atlanta Bread much more that Starbucks. They have a lot better food. Coffee? Well I don't drink Coffee so what do I know?
So does Atlanta Bread and Camilles cafe's. Not to mentions a ton of other places.
I am not a big Starbucks fan.
One does wonder how anybody with 100 million after seeing all the rulings on this case go against SCO would be STUPID enough to think this is a good idea.
Maybe they are going to sue the lawyers for getting them into this. Or Microsoft for talking them into this....
Not really. The US satellite is in a very low orbit It is decaying so the pieces will decay as well.
The Chinese satellite was in a pretty high altitude and the junk will take a very long time. The only real issue that this will cause if the impact actually imparts enough energy in the correct direction to push some of the fragments into a much higher orbit. That is going to be very unlikely since the intercept will probably not be a tail chase.
Odds are they will target this just before it is do to renter to prevent that from happening.
The intercept should reduce the danger of any really big pieces actually making it to earth and hitting anything important.
So yea you are pretty much making an anti us rant with no real basis in facts.
Or a wrist watch, card in the wallet, earring...
Actually Gerard O'Neill in his book about space colonies wrote about an ID anklet that would unlock doors and allow you to buy stuff.
He went with an anklet because wouldn't class with their outfit.
Why?
On my version of Ubuntu that I just installed it is working just fine and is pretty fast.
Most of the problems with X have to do with the current implementation and not with X.
Improving X is what needs to be done.
Okay I will give you that but then they need to disclose this in all their ads.
Every add for "Internet access" needs to include bandwidth limits, ports blocked, and what parts of the internet they include or don't.
"All these plans would not be that necessary if the USA kept out of other countries' business. But we will not leave them alone."
The USA tried that. It was called isolationism. The result was WWII. The funny thing is that other countries don't want the USA out of their business. When things where bad in the Balkans, people kept asking where was the USA? When a disaster hits people ask where is the USA?
Not at all. But did you read the article?
For one thing it isn't from the US at all. It is from Spain. Second does anyone on the planet question the fact that pedophiles use the the Internet to exchange data? Third many studies have shown that repeated exposure to porn decreases ones sensitivity to it.
But my main criticism is of Slashdot posting this to the front page at all. Why post a small blurb from a site most people would never see that lacks any facts?
So that people on Slashdot can circle the wagons and defend themselves against this fluff article.
VirtualBox seems to work really well.
On an AMD AM2 machine I have run Vista Home with no problems.
On my older AMD machine I have run Ubuntu, Kbuntu, Xbuntu, PCLinux, and Minux3 with no problems.
Under Ubuntu you just install it from add software. The GUI is pretty simple and It seems to work just fine.
No they are loosing money because of the file sharers.
Actually I am not fond of the media companies or the file sharers for the same reason.
People should get paid for their work.
"At least on my enviro, near line is not part of the "enterprisey" backup/restore procedure but a convenience for end users (a *big* convenience, by the way) if (yes, a big "if") we could better manage that dispersed underused storage it certainly would be a very intersting gain (hey, dream is for free, isn't it?)."
Yea dreaming is free but I fear that for all the reasons I pointed out that it is a really bad idea. Just not the best use of resources or even the right way of looking at the problem.
The Problem is "I got a bunch of resources that are not being used." The solution is don't keep them around.
Often articles posted on Slashdot don't have any supporting data. However if the article said that that was no connection between pedophilia and the Internet and still cited no data to back it up would you be calling that into question?
There was a study on how violent video games caused changes to the brain. Go and take a look at the comments posted on that.
Maybe a better question is why would blurb with no supporting data make it to the front page of Slashdot?
"I found it odd that the whole article goes on talking about how pedophiles use the Internet to get photos and contact other pedophiles. But he never once talks about how it has empowered his organization to receive tips, track these people, pose as children to catch them, pose as other pedophiles to gain evidence, etc."
Honestly probably because in this case the benefit doesn't out weigh the problems.
The Internet doesn't cause pedophilia but I bet it really does help pedophiles trade pictures and it may actually encourage those that have the tendency to act on it. What I find so interesting is how people on Slashdot are so willing to dismiss any data that they don't believe. It doesn't matter if it is about porn, pedophilia, or video games. If some data says that the Internet makes some problem worse then they will circle the wagons.
Not at all. There is just no value in an on-site decentralized backup.
It would be very complex.
It would require that the backup data be encrypted not a terrible thing but still an extra layer of complexity.
It would require that the data be be stored in multiple places spread over the workstations of the network.
It would require that most of the machine be powered up all them time. A real waste of power.
An you would gain... Nothing.
You wouldn't want to replace you centralized on-site backup system with it. You wouldn't want to replace you off site back up system with it. So what would you gain but a lot of complexity.
A decentralized off-site backup system does have value. I could see you mirroring data at multiple sites in a multi-site company. But I wouldn't use the desktops to do it.
The best solution for a company described would be to get rid of the HDs all together.
Boot from the network card and use NAS for the user data. Fewer hard drives to fail, Fewer hard drives to wipe when you dispose of the computer, few hard drives to power, and few hard drives to cool.
Yes you would make the network a single point of failure but that is already the case in most places. But you would have more resources available to make the network as reliable as possible.
I wasn't thinking about a thin client. Just a PC that boots off the network. You could use a NAS or even a SAN to provide a local drive for each machine but they would be sitting down in your server room.
One you don't backup your enterprise level database to some random pc in a cube.
You will back up on to tape. You will multiple backups some of which will be in a fire resistant safe and some that will be in a safe off-site.
You will also probably mirror your data at an off-site location as well.
Yep a better question is Why do all these PCs have harddrives?
If they are really only using it for the OS, a few applications, and a few docs why not use diskless workstations?
Less power, heat, and fewer things to break.
In other words don't use all those drives, get ride of all of them.
No because it would be solaris.
Ubuntu, Openfiler, DSL, and Red Hat area all very different but they all use the Linux Kernel.
The speed issue probably has more to do with Ram than the CPU.
This chipset uses FB ram. It is a good bit slower then DDR2 or DDR3 desktop ram.
The other issue has to do with the FSB. I read that the Intel memory system starts to falter at 4+cores. Memory access is one of the few areas where AMD still has an advantage.
He spoke for Linus. That is fine Linux is FOSS so anyone can take a copy of the source and make it into anything they want as long as they keep the GPL.
Ubuntu is different from Openfiler is different from DSL, which is different from RHEL... Yet they are all Linux.