I tend to agree. I've had just as many failures with SCSI as IDE lately. I just got a IBM DMVS 18 gig drive back (from rma - this same drive was replaced twice already), and now its no longer large enough considering the space (and the drive size) in the drive cage. One thing for it is that it is brutally fast - I think last time I benchmarked it it did over 35 megs per second sustained.
anyhoo it got replaced with a bunch of 89$ 40 gig Seagate IDE drives - which have so far performed just as well as the IBM drives and seem to be just as reliable. And on top of that they seem to run an awful lot cooler.
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One thing about this mess is we made the networks that the corperations use to exploit so called "intelectual property" - which are kinda like patents - you don't necessarily have to make anything to lord it over people. And corperations don't make anything, the people that work for them do... And they often don't reap the big rewards anyhow.
Why can't we organize and show them what were made of?
No, but people could do video production on linux. Personally I think it would make a great platform to develope on because of its superior io performance to windows and the mac.
Does anyone know when nubus is going to be supported in a normal distrobution? I'm pretty sure nubus support is in kernel version 2.4.4 native (not mklinux).
I've got a 6100/60 with a 210 mhz G3 inside that I'd like to run linux on some day:).
Apparently the chipset around the xbox was designed with the AMD K7 series of chips in mind. Intel jumped in for obvious reasons later on and MS made a hal library to support the P3 - apparently (I've heard this from testing labs) it has a problem with hard locking once in a while still because of this kludge.
I used to use one (VT Flyer and VT 4000) - I liked it because it allowed you to see results instantly - without having to wait around to compile results. This was in 94 - I can't even imagine another digital video solution that would do that then on a computer.
When you consider that the xbox still has a rather crucial problem (let me know if you want to know what it is) that Intel and MS are working out I don't think its a biggy - especially when you consider the xbox will probably be delayed for another month, unless they forgo this problem and ship it anyhow.
The patch will be out within minutes of the worms induction to the internet - in fact there's a good chance we'll get the patch (or fix) before the worm is even released.
What they are assuming is that the amount of downloads on whatever file sharing system you are using equates the total amount lost in one year.
Problem is I think a lot of us download songs we'd never purchase - or can't purchase (I used to collect goofy star trek songs - which I only have on record).
What suprises me is that no-one in the media has called them on it yet. Just assuming that between 99 and 00 they should have got 150 million dollars extra for some reason - can they name ANY year where they earned 150 million extra dollars in any fiscal year?
Makes me wonder what would happen if Microsoft made the same tools Elcomsoft did - would adobe go after them?
I mean look at the gallery of DeCSS - the only reason they went after 2600 was not because they did anything wrong, but because they knew they could probably win.
There was a debate in Harvard - I can't recall the URL, but both of theses questions were answered by Jack himself as,
1) Yes - and they claimed the DMCA does nothing to change his
and
2) No - because the DMCA makes this illegal.
You know depending on what apple ][ you had you got a different screen when you first switched it on - like Apple//e - would look just like that or Apple//c. The first Apple ]['s actually spelled it like that when you switched it on.
My first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000 - which was that little black computer about the size of a small textbook with 1k of ram (had a 15k upgrade cartridge) and no floppy drive (used audio tapes - I don't think disk drives were even an option with this thing). I still have this thing somewhere. As I recall it had command completion (by hitting like function and a hotkey), a basic prompt with a cursor that was always at the very bottom of the screen, a membrane like keyboard (was the pits to type on) and a black and white video mode. I also had frogger for it actually:).
My second machine was a Commodore 64 - which at first only had a tape drive (datasette), then I had a 1541 - which was way cooler then tapes since you could just pop the disk in and not worry about rewinding or pressing play etc. I still have this thing too... Oh and I had several versions of frogger for it too.
My third computer was an IBM XT (actually it was an Everex XT with an Amber screen) - with a 20 meg hd, but it wasn't as good as playing games as my C64 - plus the C64 was much more fun to hack with for some reason despite the fack the XT had 640k or ram and a hard drive. Maybe because it was all monochrome. More likely it was because the C64 could do colour (games were much more fun then:)) and sound - and my XT without major funding couldn't do either. (anyone remember "simcga" for hercules monochrome graphics cards?)
Oh everything from MS is crap - and they stole everything from apple anyhow.
Is anyone else sick and tired of this simplistic way of writing off 20 years of revolution?
Thats right - IBM PC's and their clones are everywhere - and if it wasn't for MS the IBM PC (and its open standards) probably wouldn't be around today if it wasn't for them.
The company I worked for (my last day was tuesday this week) seems to be going down the toilet, but as far as I recall (and I was there for a whole year) we didn't have any Aeron chairs - and I worked in facilities/IT.
But they still made a lot of stupid decisions. I don't think they were spending 200 million dollars every 4 year though (ouch!).
If you know anything about clocking transistors and logic gates (which is really what clock frequencies are all about) clock frequencies do matter.
The thing about the PPRO also I think has more to do with the fact it can do a multiple command decode in one cycle - the darling feature of the Power PC. Something that has stuck with chips like the K5, K6, K7, P2, P3, and P4.
Fact is I just went from a Duron 800 to a Thunderbird 1200 - and it seems noticeably faster and I didn't pay a whole lot more for it. On a Mac you pay (and have always had to pay) through the ass for "simple" performance enchancements like that.
Don't get me wrong - I'm a mac user too - and I run a G3 at 210 MHz because thats the fastest it will go. Use it because you like it, not because it runs faster. Same reason I keep an Amiga 3000 around with a 25 MHz 68040.
It doesn't die under 500k messages per day. Thing is about Exchange is its not just a message processor - it also does calendering, notes, appointments etc. In a system with 2048 megs of ram its actually very reliable (and I'm talking about Exchange 5.5).
Its not an attempt to troll - its an attempt to get Linux e-mail server to take viruses seriously. Why aren't there Linux e-mail virus scanners?
Two words: Kevin Mitnik - who spent I believe 4-5 years in prision. His crime? Mis representational use of a telephone... - the only thing he was charged with.
Lesson to be learned the public is afraid of "hackers....". There's plenty of people that have mentioned concerning the mitnick case that if you robbed the local 7-11 using a gun you'd probably get less time (via parole).
With Intel chips the desparity seems to be greater for instance. Spending a whopping 33$ more for top of the line is worth it to me because its not so big a deal. However if it was like 75 or 100 dollars I'd have to think about it more.
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anyhoo it got replaced with a bunch of 89$ 40 gig Seagate IDE drives - which have so far performed just as well as the IBM drives and seem to be just as reliable. And on top of that they seem to run an awful lot cooler.
Why can't we organize and show them what were made of?
No, but people could do video production on linux. Personally I think it would make a great platform to develope on because of its superior io performance to windows and the mac.
Everyone knows including apple that my 6100/60 is just as fast a P4 1.2 ghz at similar tasks :).
as a PIII 400 - as I recall the first P3 was the 450.
I've got a 6100/60 with a 210 mhz G3 inside that I'd like to run linux on some day
Apparently the chipset around the xbox was designed with the AMD K7 series of chips in mind. Intel jumped in for obvious reasons later on and MS made a hal library to support the P3 - apparently (I've heard this from testing labs) it has a problem with hard locking once in a while still because of this kludge.
I used to use one (VT Flyer and VT 4000) - I liked it because it allowed you to see results instantly - without having to wait around to compile results. This was in 94 - I can't even imagine another digital video solution that would do that then on a computer.
When you consider that the xbox still has a rather crucial problem (let me know if you want to know what it is) that Intel and MS are working out I don't think its a biggy - especially when you consider the xbox will probably be delayed for another month, unless they forgo this problem and ship it anyhow.
As I recall the Newtek Video Toaster got this award once :). Very nice!
Well the people who bought and lobbied congress obviously like it - in fact they've said so repeatedly.
And the same version of IE 6 seems to run Java Applets to.
So what is everyone talking about?
Have you ever seen p-System run? p stands for psuedo - p-System was very very very very very slow, not to mention it ran well on ms-dos anyhow.
The patch will be out within minutes of the worms induction to the internet - in fact there's a good chance we'll get the patch (or fix) before the worm is even released.
Problem is I think a lot of us download songs we'd never purchase - or can't purchase (I used to collect goofy star trek songs - which I only have on record).
What suprises me is that no-one in the media has called them on it yet. Just assuming that between 99 and 00 they should have got 150 million dollars extra for some reason - can they name ANY year where they earned 150 million extra dollars in any fiscal year?
I mean look at the gallery of DeCSS - the only reason they went after 2600 was not because they did anything wrong, but because they knew they could probably win.
There was a debate in Harvard - I can't recall the URL, but both of theses questions were answered by Jack himself as, 1) Yes - and they claimed the DMCA does nothing to change his and 2) No - because the DMCA makes this illegal.
Nothing l33t about it - you just had to be there.
My second machine was a Commodore 64 - which at first only had a tape drive (datasette), then I had a 1541 - which was way cooler then tapes since you could just pop the disk in and not worry about rewinding or pressing play etc. I still have this thing too... Oh and I had several versions of frogger for it too.
My third computer was an IBM XT (actually it was an Everex XT with an Amber screen) - with a 20 meg hd, but it wasn't as good as playing games as my C64 - plus the C64 was much more fun to hack with for some reason despite the fack the XT had 640k or ram and a hard drive. Maybe because it was all monochrome. More likely it was because the C64 could do colour (games were much more fun then :)) and sound - and my XT without major funding couldn't do either. (anyone remember "simcga" for hercules monochrome graphics cards?)
Is anyone else sick and tired of this simplistic way of writing off 20 years of revolution?
Thats right - IBM PC's and their clones are everywhere - and if it wasn't for MS the IBM PC (and its open standards) probably wouldn't be around today if it wasn't for them.
But they still made a lot of stupid decisions. I don't think they were spending 200 million dollars every 4 year though (ouch!).
The thing about the PPRO also I think has more to do with the fact it can do a multiple command decode in one cycle - the darling feature of the Power PC. Something that has stuck with chips like the K5, K6, K7, P2, P3, and P4.
Fact is I just went from a Duron 800 to a Thunderbird 1200 - and it seems noticeably faster and I didn't pay a whole lot more for it. On a Mac you pay (and have always had to pay) through the ass for "simple" performance enchancements like that.
Don't get me wrong - I'm a mac user too - and I run a G3 at 210 MHz because thats the fastest it will go. Use it because you like it, not because it runs faster. Same reason I keep an Amiga 3000 around with a 25 MHz 68040.
Its not an attempt to troll - its an attempt to get Linux e-mail server to take viruses seriously. Why aren't there Linux e-mail virus scanners?
Lesson to be learned the public is afraid of "hackers....". There's plenty of people that have mentioned concerning the mitnick case that if you robbed the local 7-11 using a gun you'd probably get less time (via parole).
With Intel chips the desparity seems to be greater for instance. Spending a whopping 33$ more for top of the line is worth it to me because its not so big a deal. However if it was like 75 or 100 dollars I'd have to think about it more.