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I'm thinking that this is what it looks like: a support bulletin designed to keep them from being overwhelmed by people who fire up their iPods and can't get things to work just right, once they have installed Vista.
It's a new OS, with lots of restrictions that the previous version did not have, so naturally some things probably don't work as well as they should. Also, cranking out new versions for Vista may not have been the biggest priority around Apple, aside from the guys who knew that things were going to get busy there in apple support land.
Technically the dead bodies are Floating in the streets, but aside from that, yeah.
The problem here is that just the act of being 'America' doesn't make us magically better able to handle disasters on an unprecedented scale.
I have no love for this administration, but I will venture to guess that another administration wouldn't have been better prepared.
The main problem we have here is the scope of what's happened. The area that has been devastated is much wider than what is normally dealt with by everyone, Red Cross, Insurers, FEMA, you name it.
Sadly, this is not always the case. I had to retire a otherwise servicable laptop that I had intended to set up as a streaming audio station in my bedroom because the particular chipset for the sound card was unsupported in Windows XP. Worked great in 2000, did not work in XP.
I'm a tech for a medium sized publishing company, and I find that the first thing I do when I get complaints of slowness and random unexplained crashes is to run spybot. In roughly half of the systems I check, I can find some kind of spyware.
All the really cool modern mice with extra features are lost to me, as I'm one of those freaky left-handed people. Good ol' generic mice are all I can use.
I would love one of the new Microsoft mice, if they would just flip the damn things around and make a left-handed model, even if it was special order to get them and costs more money.
As far as keyboards go, I've got an old IBM Model M keyboard that I hope to be using for the rest of my life.
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Ahem. "Boo" was Andy's little sister.
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Amen to that, brother. Those commercials were so annoying I would turn off my radio rather than listening to them. Funny once, annoying the next twelve billion times.
I'm still using an old IBM PS/2 Keyboard. Its huge, weighs a ton, and has absolutely the best key action I have ever felt. And it makes a lovely *CLICK* every time you press down on a key. And you have to PRESS down on the keys, as the keyboard is stiff. I love this thing, and would be hard pressed to do without it.
Okay, I am tired, and I am not a programmer, but I am trying to work out an idea that has been kicking around in my mind: a self-organizing system that handles request traffic by promoting systems that are both willing to serve and bandwith blessed into a net of servers that do for a gnutella-like PTP network what the central servers did for Napster.
As a straight-peer-to-peer network grows, it becomes saturated with traffic. Requests are sent, propagated, and choke the entire network of peer-to-peer clients, usually at the lowest bandwith level. Since there is no central coordinating system to handle the search requests, you eventually get a network that is ass slow and unable to perform to expected levels. If you try to run this through an established client server system, lawyers decend like flocks of carrion birds.
So it seems to me the fix is a hybrid network of servers that are promoted up from a pool of high bandwith connections, organized like resistance cells. These client machines would only talk to an upper level system, transferring a list of songs on the system to its cell leader. This cell leader would be part of a higher-level cell, and would send data about what was in its cell to a higher level server. Eventually, you hit the top level where you would have a ring of systems on very high bandwith connections.
Search requests would hop to the top level servers, who would talk to each other and fire back the answer. Then the two (client) machines would start swapping data. These top level machines would be updated from below with fresh data, updating their search pool dynamically.
As clients come online, they would find a server, report what they have in their swap folder, and start sharing data. requests for searches would only go to the highest bandwith systems, and then only those that are willing to serve in this capacity. If you come online with a nice fast machine, with a fat network pipe, you can become part of the search network.
Obviously, there would need to be some method of pointing clients to servers, especially if the servers were to dynamically drop on and off the network. I envision that once the sofware determines that you qualify to be a server, and you check that you do want participate, it would set you up as a backup server for a functioning system. when that system drops from the network, your machine would find another comperable system and set it up as a backup.
Any thoughts on this? Is it already being done? Should I stop smoking the crack? I know that this would be a nontrivial problem to set up, but it seems that it would remain rather uncentralized and chaotic, but not be as prone to choking as gnutella is.
Look folks, just because you don't agree with someone's postion does not automatically make the person a troll. Its called a discussion.
Opinions vary. This is a reasoned, thought out post, not a link to goatse or it's ilk. In fact, this is a rather enlightened take on things from the point of view of a parent who actually seems to (gasp) care!
This kind of moderation is sad. It tends to narrow the focus of the conversation, and keeps people who may have views that are valid but unpopular from expressing them.
>>The activation code is based on your MAC address
Um, No.
I'm on the beta for this, and I lurk the private MS newsgroups. They started a newsgroup just to discuss Product Activation once the flamewars spread into the other groups, drowning out the other discussions. In that newsgroup, 99.995% of the posts are, if anything, more vitriolic and staunchly opposed to the idea of product activiation than the posts I have read here...
So naturally, once MS shipped code that really needed to be activated, the first thing most folks did was try and figure out what hardware changes trigger the system activation. It turns out to be more complex than just the MAC address, rather it works off of a combination of some motherboard identification, hard drive ID, and the Mac address. (I would bet that if you have a CPU with a GUID, then it uses that, too.) You can actually change out a lot of this stuff and not have the reactivation trigger.
Besides that, apparently (I read this over at the Register) the cracks are painfully easy to implement, so it's really not going to solve the problem.
Video card makers actually ASK HIM what he wants to see in the next generation video cards, then scurry off and figure out how to do that. I don't doubt that they send him a few engineering samples once they have working prototypes.
No company is so suicidal that they are going to create a video card that won't run Doom2001 (or whatever its going to be called) Perfectly.
Your boyfriend, Dennis Miller, still has a late night talk show. It's on HBO.
No, that's not the show he means. Dennis Miller actually had a show that was syndicated a while back, that you could get for free, over the air.
Basically it was a clone of the Tonight show format, with a news segment and all the other fun stuff. After it went under, then he got the HBO gig, which led him to Monday Night Football, where he is, IMHO, as inconspicuous as a turd in a punch bowl. (I like Dennis Miller. I like Monday Night Football. I don't like the combination.)
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I'm thinking that this is what it looks like: a support bulletin designed to keep them from being overwhelmed by people who fire up their iPods and can't get things to work just right, once they have installed Vista.
It's a new OS, with lots of restrictions that the previous version did not have, so naturally some things probably don't work as well as they should. Also, cranking out new versions for Vista may not have been the biggest priority around Apple, aside from the guys who knew that things were going to get busy there in apple support land.
This falls under the time - honored Texas tradition of "He needed Punchin'."
Technically the dead bodies are Floating in the streets, but aside from that, yeah.
The problem here is that just the act of being 'America' doesn't make us magically better able to handle disasters on an unprecedented scale.
I have no love for this administration, but I will venture to guess that another administration wouldn't have been better prepared.
The main problem we have here is the scope of what's happened. The area that has been devastated is much wider than what is normally dealt with by everyone, Red Cross, Insurers, FEMA, you name it.
He's got fiber to his cabinet, I think.
Yes, but only for the right-handed. Those of us wired for left-handedness don't exactly find this convenient.
Sadly, this is not always the case. I had to retire a otherwise servicable laptop that I had intended to set up as a streaming audio station in my bedroom because the particular chipset for the sound card was unsupported in Windows XP. Worked great in 2000, did not work in XP.
I'm a tech for a medium sized publishing company, and I find that the first thing I do when I get complaints of slowness and random unexplained crashes is to run spybot. In roughly half of the systems I check, I can find some kind of spyware.
All the really cool modern mice with extra features are lost to me, as I'm one of those freaky left-handed people. Good ol' generic mice are all I can use.
I would love one of the new Microsoft mice, if they would just flip the damn things around and make a left-handed model, even if it was special order to get them and costs more money.
As far as keyboards go, I've got an old IBM Model M keyboard that I hope to be using for the rest of my life.
I wish I had mod points today, this is an excellent point.
So long as I can still delete the damn things.
My local cineplex currently has Lord of the Rings STILL running on one screen.
Hooray!
But it is still cool.
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Amen to that, brother. Those commercials were so annoying I would turn off my radio rather than listening to them. Funny once, annoying the next twelve billion times.
I'm still using an old IBM PS/2 Keyboard. Its huge, weighs a ton, and has absolutely the best key action I have ever felt. And it makes a lovely *CLICK* every time you press down on a key. And you have to PRESS down on the keys, as the keyboard is stiff. I love this thing, and would be hard pressed to do without it.
After all, I have seen a ton of goatse links in this thread.
The forum goon known as Vitriol.
This is why Fdisk/reinstall exists. Oh wait, they don't have the original media? hm. rats.
As a straight-peer-to-peer network grows, it becomes saturated with traffic. Requests are sent, propagated, and choke the entire network of peer-to-peer clients, usually at the lowest bandwith level. Since there is no central coordinating system to handle the search requests, you eventually get a network that is ass slow and unable to perform to expected levels. If you try to run this through an established client server system, lawyers decend like flocks of carrion birds. So it seems to me the fix is a hybrid network of servers that are promoted up from a pool of high bandwith connections, organized like resistance cells. These client machines would only talk to an upper level system, transferring a list of songs on the system to its cell leader. This cell leader would be part of a higher-level cell, and would send data about what was in its cell to a higher level server. Eventually, you hit the top level where you would have a ring of systems on very high bandwith connections.
Search requests would hop to the top level servers, who would talk to each other and fire back the answer. Then the two (client) machines would start swapping data. These top level machines would be updated from below with fresh data, updating their search pool dynamically.
As clients come online, they would find a server, report what they have in their swap folder, and start sharing data. requests for searches would only go to the highest bandwith systems, and then only those that are willing to serve in this capacity. If you come online with a nice fast machine, with a fat network pipe, you can become part of the search network.
Obviously, there would need to be some method of pointing clients to servers, especially if the servers were to dynamically drop on and off the network. I envision that once the sofware determines that you qualify to be a server, and you check that you do want participate, it would set you up as a backup server for a functioning system. when that system drops from the network, your machine would find another comperable system and set it up as a backup.
Any thoughts on this? Is it already being done? Should I stop smoking the crack? I know that this would be a nontrivial problem to set up, but it seems that it would remain rather uncentralized and chaotic, but not be as prone to choking as gnutella is.
Opinions vary. This is a reasoned, thought out post, not a link to goatse or it's ilk. In fact, this is a rather enlightened take on things from the point of view of a parent who actually seems to (gasp) care!
This kind of moderation is sad. It tends to narrow the focus of the conversation, and keeps people who may have views that are valid but unpopular from expressing them.
I would bet that you are going to see hordes of clone warriors, all CGI rendered.
Um, No.
I'm on the beta for this, and I lurk the private MS newsgroups. They started a newsgroup just to discuss Product Activation once the flamewars spread into the other groups, drowning out the other discussions. In that newsgroup, 99.995% of the posts are, if anything, more vitriolic and staunchly opposed to the idea of product activiation than the posts I have read here...
So naturally, once MS shipped code that really needed to be activated, the first thing most folks did was try and figure out what hardware changes trigger the system activation. It turns out to be more complex than just the MAC address, rather it works off of a combination of some motherboard identification, hard drive ID, and the Mac address. (I would bet that if you have a CPU with a GUID, then it uses that, too.) You can actually change out a lot of this stuff and not have the reactivation trigger.
Besides that, apparently (I read this over at the Register) the cracks are painfully easy to implement, so it's really not going to solve the problem.
Then again, stranger things have happened. But I would bet the proverbial farm that the guts of the software is Classified.
That article with Yamauchi should be printed out and fed to most of the game developers out there right now. (Cough, Ion Storm, Cough.)
Video card makers actually ASK HIM what he wants to see in the next generation video cards, then scurry off and figure out how to do that. I don't doubt that they send him a few engineering samples once they have working prototypes.
No company is so suicidal that they are going to create a video card that won't run Doom2001 (or whatever its going to be called) Perfectly.
No, that's not the show he means. Dennis Miller actually had a show that was syndicated a while back, that you could get for free, over the air.
Basically it was a clone of the Tonight show format, with a news segment and all the other fun stuff. After it went under, then he got the HBO gig, which led him to Monday Night Football, where he is, IMHO, as inconspicuous as a turd in a punch bowl. (I like Dennis Miller. I like Monday Night Football. I don't like the combination.)