Intel has like 30 processors in this price range, but only 3 of them can actually compete in performance with AMD's offerings.
Last time I checked though, the RAM and MB for AMD were more expensive, so you actually got more bang for the buck if you went with Intel. This was like 4 months ago though, so there's probably been a couple new sockets introduced and a new memory technology on the horizon.
Seriously, I once attempted to see how long it would take to get a fresh install of XP hijacked on a virtual box. After about one hour of bad IE6 surfing on suspicious sites (would you like to download and run this? yes please) I had one or two pieces of malware installed that had taken over the computer completely, filling the screen with popups and disabling all kinds of system configuration tools.
Or in the days of slammer or blaster, just install XP and wait 30s. I remember having to use linux to download the appropriate service patches and fixes because the XP computer wouldn't stay online long enough to install them.
On a non-production system I made the mistake of editing the httpd file through Yast2. Yast "helped" "fix" my conf file so that Apache would not longer work. I learned not to edit important configuration files through gui tools.
I haven't looked at SuSE linux in almost 4 years.. SLES 9 was very stable.
Ubuntu is on all of my workstations & laptops now, and RHEL is on the servers.
Same story here. You either always use the GUI, or always just edit the files like normal. If you try mixing the two, then you are asking for pain. Strangely enough, Red Hat seems to have gotten this right. If you use their gui tools, your prior config is not torpedoed.
There are plenty of road circuits (even smaller club tracks) where you can pay to have that thrill in the relative safety of an environment made for it! And it's legal!
Open track days are few and far between and the requirements they place on you and your car put it out of reach for those of us without a lot of spare time and money.
In that case, you and your car probably shouldn't hoon around on the street either.
While driving, an amusing point and counterpoint occurred to me many years ago:
[young person] It terrifies me to think that I’m sharing the road with people who grew up before the era of videogame sensory overload.
[old person] It terrifies me to think that I’m sharing the road with people who learned to drive in an environment where they’re used to having three lives.
[me] It terrifies me to think that I am surrounded by people who are terrified of driving!
I especially love the "slow down there is an intersection ahead with a green ligh...oh crap, it just turned yellow! Floor it!" people.
When I was 15, Race Drivin' (the sequel to Hard Drivin') was out; it was a sit-down racing simulator with amazingly realistic wheel feedback/physics. Unlike basically every other game I've played, the car you were driving behaved much like a real car. (ie, you could fish tail, and if you steered with the slide you could recover)
The first time I ever accidentally fishtailed my car in real life, I instinctively steered with the slide and recovered. I've heard that people without training tend to turn against the slide and exacerbate the problem. I have always thought that without my really extensive Race Drivin' playing, I wouldn't have reacted that way. (And when I say extensive, I mean it - I got to the point where I could gain time on laps and once played for an entire hour and stood up with the "remaining time" at the cap.)
Is this something people really do? Aside from never seeing anybody actually do that, it sound completely illogical to me. Before I started driving, I recall hearing the whole "steer into the slide" thing, but it never really made any sense to me since "in" to me always meant the apex of the corner. The first time I was driving and the rear end got loose around a corner, it was more of a "hey, I'm turning to the right way too much...I need to turn to the left more". It wasn't a conscious thought, it was just a quick reaction to counter what the car was trying to do. I bit later I figured out that people are just talking backwards.
I've gotten big into sim racing e.g. GTR 2 and I noticed that my driving habits changed in a negative way. I found myself following "the line" on roads, cutting corners, accelerating faster, and breaking harder. This wasn't intentional at all since I've always been a cautious driver to the point of paranoia. It wasn't until blew past a slower truck (in the mindset of a slower GT2 class car in my way) half on a median and half in his lane that I realized how bad I had gotten. I'm now very conscious about what I'm doing, but I still catch myself following the best line on turns (which isn't safe and totally pointless at traffic speeds).
No way, taking the best line through turns is the most energy efficient. You're saving gas by not wasting all of that moment by slowing down too much, and then accelerating back to your previous speed. When making a right hand turn from one 50mph road to another 50mph road, it is only logical that you want to take the run at 50mph, so you adjust the line you take through the corner accordingly.
It does tend to really throw things off when you pick up a rental car that can barely take the corner at 40mph though:(
In case you hadn't noticed, Keynesian economics has been disproven many times over. If I were you, I would start paying attention to those of the Austrian school, who predicted, clearly, publicly, and well in advance -- you can find old videos of Peter Schiff and Ron Paul on YouTube if you need convincing -- just exactly the economic situation we have seen this last year or two. In fact, there is a very good compilation, called "Peter Schiff Was Right", showing clips from TV shows a few years ago in which Peter Schiff disagrees with the "experts" on the economy. They even laughed at him. But as it turned out he was exactly right, and the others were dead wrong. This is no coincidence: he (and Paul, and others of the Austrian school) explained not only what was going to happen but also why. It's all right there for everybody to see.
How much is "Peter Schiff Was Right" related to the prophesies of Nostradamus? He predicted the market crash, etc years ago, but the longer you stretch out your claims, the more likely they are to be "proven correct"...especially if they are vague to begin with (were his claims vague?). I can claim now that the "recovery" we are in is not real and that the market is due for another crash and be proven right eventually...might take another 20 years though. I also "predicted" the market crash back in 2006/2007, but didn't have any particular media outlet or personal conviction for it to be noted. I'm thinking he was the contrarian naysayer that popped up at just the right time to be proven correct...I'm sure you can find his analogue from the early 90's, except nobody remembers him because he was not "proven correct".
I never really managed to wrap my mind around the concept of MPG either. Yes, I'm European.
I wonder why it's defined that way in the US. It sure sounds more positive. I mean, you "get" a certain amount of miles out of a gallon of gas instead of "needing" a certain amount of gas to go 100km. Still I think it's easier to compare lp100km rather than mpg. It's trivial to calculate how much a kilometer costs me. Not so with mpg.
You don't need either to calculate how much a kilometer costs you. How much did you just pay for gas (sorry, petrol)? How many kilometers did you just drive since you last bought diesel? You can also use these numbers along with the bill from the mechanic to calculate what the cost per mile is of using the wrong kind of fuel for your vehicle.
I prefer the American method of mpg anyways. I know my car has a 16 gallon tank, so when I have 1/4 tank left it is trivial to estimate how many more miles I can drive before the car stops.
Step 1: Pay a teenager double the cost of the phone to buy the phone with his identity. Step 2: Have teenager report the phone as stolen. Step 3: Sell to terrorist @ 3x the cost of the phone. Step 4: PROFIT.
Really, don't you people realise the only way to achieve the latter is to have that dreadful power of control what you can purchase?
Bullshit. Congress can prohibit the states from putting up artificial barriers to trade without having the power to tell me that I can't grow my own wheat or cannabis.
Sounds like all you really care about is sitting around and getting high. Have you posted anything yet that doesn't involve cannabis?
If it helps any, Novell has been around for a very long time, and does employ lots of very smart people. Considering the fact that they've based their modern business almost exclusively on Linux, I have a high degree of confidence in their competence. Ubuntu (Canonical) is another matter entirely, depending on how you define competence of course...
Correct, they've been losing money almost as long as Red Hat has been a public corporation! After firsthand experience working with Novell, I have absolutely no confidence in their competence. They do employ some very smart people (I'm not sure about "a lot"..I've only met two or three I would consider smart), but I have no idea what they're doing. It does not seem like they work on creating any of Novell's products. Novell needs to go and pimp themselves out to the highest bidder while the company has still has any residual value.
That's funny. I ran a SLES shop for 3 years and for the entire time, I had a request in to Novell to explain the minor numbering for their kernels in an attempt to keep EMC happy with updates. They put it off saying that they were trying to find a Linux Engineer there to explain. For 3 years!!
I do not miss Novell. Not one bit.
Man, that sounds really familiar. I could see Oracle throwing a fit over them changing the kernel release. They freakout when you only give a server 8GB of swap space!
Nah, just a concise summary that easily dismisses a blowhard who likes to hear himself talk. Not everybody who thinks they are an articulate speaker really are articulate or espouse ideas that people care about. So, in addition to the those with the attention span of a 2 year old, you also have people who just don't care or have already dismissed the speaker as the aforementioned blowhard. And no, I didn't really make it past the second paragraph. You didn't look like you were going anywhere, and the journey looked dull.
I was disappointed to not find an appropriate car analogy while skimming the comments. Almost as fast as VNC sounds like an auto manufacturer hyping up their new model by claiming that it's almost as fast as a Yugo. I'm sure it was at least non-obvious and a good project to work on though.
What did I find when I joined the sysadmin team at my place?
Putting cold air vents behind the racks doesn't help. Pull cold air through the front to the back? Nope. Chill the exhausted air because it sucks to walk behind the servers. Nice.
We used to have all of the servers aligned to face the same direction...so like 5 or 6 rows of racks where only the very first row consisted of servers not pulling in the exhaust from the row across the isle. Now the warm exhaust isles are nice places to thaw out if you've been at a kvm directly in the flow of the cold air.
A recent article on Google's data centers said that they run as close to maximum temperature as possible: if the servers are rated to 90, they only cool to 88. Google is extremely efficient. The article said that the energy overhead for their data centers is only about 20%, while most data centers run 100%. Because of that, I'm sure Google has studied the server fan issue and determined that it's not a significant factor.
Google also uses cheap commodity hardware that they have every expectation of failing unexpectedly (one of their known unknowns). Since they design massive redundancy with this in mind, it is not a problem for them. If your systems are not massively redundant, then it becomes a problem. The hotter you allow your systems to run, the greater chance you have of components failing...especially hard drives.
Somehow, I missed the original story. Must have been on travels at the time. Would someone help me with these basic questions? (I can't help being interested in the trivia. I love Sarah Palin stories. US politics would be so dull without her...)
- How did he hack the account? Guess the password? Do we know what the password was?
- Were funny email bits published on the net? Are they still available somewhere?
- How did the guy actually get caught?
-Guessed the password (or the password reset questions, forget which) -Posted screenshots of the inbox, I do not recall any funny bits -Posted to 4chan.
...that's how I recall it happening at least, ymmv
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vi car, drive to the beer store.
vi car, that beer store did not have the right beer, drive to the one that has the right beer.
vi car, drive me home.
vi car, I forgot where I just went and what I did, but it was awesome. Go do that again.
vi car, I must puke, stop what you are doing right now and let me out. Really, I mean it, no questions.
ed is pretty simple. None of this confusing UI and interactive stuff.
In the under $200 arena, its AMD AMD AMD.
Intel has like 30 processors in this price range, but only 3 of them can actually compete in performance with AMD's offerings.
Last time I checked though, the RAM and MB for AMD were more expensive, so you actually got more bang for the buck if you went with Intel. This was like 4 months ago though, so there's probably been a couple new sockets introduced and a new memory technology on the horizon.
Seriously, I once attempted to see how long it would take to get a fresh install of XP hijacked on a virtual box. After about one hour of bad IE6 surfing on suspicious sites (would you like to download and run this? yes please) I had one or two pieces of malware installed that had taken over the computer completely, filling the screen with popups and disabling all kinds of system configuration tools.
Or in the days of slammer or blaster, just install XP and wait 30s. I remember having to use linux to download the appropriate service patches and fixes because the XP computer wouldn't stay online long enough to install them.
On a non-production system I made the mistake of editing the httpd file through Yast2. Yast "helped" "fix" my conf file so that Apache would not longer work. I learned not to edit important configuration files through gui tools.
I haven't looked at SuSE linux in almost 4 years.. SLES 9 was very stable.
Ubuntu is on all of my workstations & laptops now, and RHEL is on the servers.
Same story here. You either always use the GUI, or always just edit the files like normal. If you try mixing the two, then you are asking for pain. Strangely enough, Red Hat seems to have gotten this right. If you use their gui tools, your prior config is not torpedoed.
YaST is a wonderful tool if you have never used it.
.. and once you have used it, it's not so wonderful? :)
I would agree.
Yet Another Shitty Tool?
Open track days are few and far between and the requirements they place on you and your car put it out of reach for those of us without a lot of spare time and money.
In that case, you and your car probably shouldn't hoon around on the street either.
I thought the whole point of chatroulette was a gamble between seeing an actual person or just a dude jacking off.
Like global thermonuclear war, "The only way to win is not to play".
Thanks a lot...I've been trying to remember that I never saw Wargames: Dead Code
While driving, an amusing point and counterpoint occurred to me many years ago:
[young person] It terrifies me to think that I’m sharing the road with people who grew up before the era of videogame sensory overload.
[old person] It terrifies me to think that I’m sharing the road with people who learned to drive in an environment where they’re used to having three lives.
[me] It terrifies me to think that I am surrounded by people who are terrified of driving!
I especially love the "slow down there is an intersection ahead with a green ligh...oh crap, it just turned yellow! Floor it!" people.
When I was 15, Race Drivin' (the sequel to Hard Drivin') was out; it was a sit-down racing simulator with amazingly realistic wheel feedback/physics. Unlike basically every other game I've played, the car you were driving behaved much like a real car. (ie, you could fish tail, and if you steered with the slide you could recover)
The first time I ever accidentally fishtailed my car in real life, I instinctively steered with the slide and recovered. I've heard that people without training tend to turn against the slide and exacerbate the problem. I have always thought that without my really extensive Race Drivin' playing, I wouldn't have reacted that way. (And when I say extensive, I mean it - I got to the point where I could gain time on laps and once played for an entire hour and stood up with the "remaining time" at the cap.)
Is this something people really do? Aside from never seeing anybody actually do that, it sound completely illogical to me. Before I started driving, I recall hearing the whole "steer into the slide" thing, but it never really made any sense to me since "in" to me always meant the apex of the corner. The first time I was driving and the rear end got loose around a corner, it was more of a "hey, I'm turning to the right way too much...I need to turn to the left more". It wasn't a conscious thought, it was just a quick reaction to counter what the car was trying to do. I bit later I figured out that people are just talking backwards.
I've gotten big into sim racing e.g. GTR 2 and I noticed that my driving habits changed in a negative way. I found myself following "the line" on roads, cutting corners, accelerating faster, and breaking harder. This wasn't intentional at all since I've always been a cautious driver to the point of paranoia. It wasn't until blew past a slower truck (in the mindset of a slower GT2 class car in my way) half on a median and half in his lane that I realized how bad I had gotten. I'm now very conscious about what I'm doing, but I still catch myself following the best line on turns (which isn't safe and totally pointless at traffic speeds).
No way, taking the best line through turns is the most energy efficient. You're saving gas by not wasting all of that moment by slowing down too much, and then accelerating back to your previous speed. When making a right hand turn from one 50mph road to another 50mph road, it is only logical that you want to take the run at 50mph, so you adjust the line you take through the corner accordingly.
It does tend to really throw things off when you pick up a rental car that can barely take the corner at 40mph though :(
In case you hadn't noticed, Keynesian economics has been disproven many times over. If I were you, I would start paying attention to those of the Austrian school, who predicted, clearly, publicly, and well in advance -- you can find old videos of Peter Schiff and Ron Paul on YouTube if you need convincing -- just exactly the economic situation we have seen this last year or two. In fact, there is a very good compilation, called "Peter Schiff Was Right", showing clips from TV shows a few years ago in which Peter Schiff disagrees with the "experts" on the economy. They even laughed at him. But as it turned out he was exactly right, and the others were dead wrong. This is no coincidence: he (and Paul, and others of the Austrian school) explained not only what was going to happen but also why. It's all right there for everybody to see.
How much is "Peter Schiff Was Right" related to the prophesies of Nostradamus? He predicted the market crash, etc years ago, but the longer you stretch out your claims, the more likely they are to be "proven correct"...especially if they are vague to begin with (were his claims vague?). I can claim now that the "recovery" we are in is not real and that the market is due for another crash and be proven right eventually...might take another 20 years though. I also "predicted" the market crash back in 2006/2007, but didn't have any particular media outlet or personal conviction for it to be noted. I'm thinking he was the contrarian naysayer that popped up at just the right time to be proven correct...I'm sure you can find his analogue from the early 90's, except nobody remembers him because he was not "proven correct".
Not really. A typical suburban American family has 2 cars - one sedan and one minivan/SUV and may be looking at deciding which one to replace.
Well, that's easy...the answer is always the one that the wife drives.
I never really managed to wrap my mind around the concept of MPG either. Yes, I'm European.
I wonder why it's defined that way in the US. It sure sounds more positive. I mean, you "get" a certain amount of miles out of a gallon of gas instead of "needing" a certain amount of gas to go 100km. Still I think it's easier to compare lp100km rather than mpg. It's trivial to calculate how much a kilometer costs me. Not so with mpg.
You don't need either to calculate how much a kilometer costs you. How much did you just pay for gas (sorry, petrol)? How many kilometers did you just drive since you last bought diesel? You can also use these numbers along with the bill from the mechanic to calculate what the cost per mile is of using the wrong kind of fuel for your vehicle.
I prefer the American method of mpg anyways. I know my car has a 16 gallon tank, so when I have 1/4 tank left it is trivial to estimate how many more miles I can drive before the car stops.
Step 1: Pay a teenager double the cost of the phone to buy the phone with his identity.
Step 2: Have teenager report the phone as stolen.
Step 3: Sell to terrorist @ 3x the cost of the phone.
Step 4: PROFIT.
Step 1: Fraudulant papers
Step 2: Buy phone
Step 3: (fork goto step 1)
Step 4: Profit
Really, don't you people realise the only way to achieve the latter is to have that dreadful power of control what you can purchase?
Bullshit. Congress can prohibit the states from putting up artificial barriers to trade without having the power to tell me that I can't grow my own wheat or cannabis.
Sounds like all you really care about is sitting around and getting high. Have you posted anything yet that doesn't involve cannabis?
Median firefighter salary is about $40,000. Median nurse salary is about $55,000.
Glad you can lift 200 pounds, see what it gets you.
Median firefighters also "work" 3 days a week.
If it helps any, Novell has been around for a very long time, and does employ lots of very smart people. Considering the fact that they've based their modern business almost exclusively on Linux, I have a high degree of confidence in their competence. Ubuntu (Canonical) is another matter entirely, depending on how you define competence of course...
Correct, they've been losing money almost as long as Red Hat has been a public corporation! After firsthand experience working with Novell, I have absolutely no confidence in their competence. They do employ some very smart people (I'm not sure about "a lot"..I've only met two or three I would consider smart), but I have no idea what they're doing. It does not seem like they work on creating any of Novell's products. Novell needs to go and pimp themselves out to the highest bidder while the company has still has any residual value.
That's funny. I ran a SLES shop for 3 years and for the entire time, I had a request in to Novell to explain the minor numbering for their kernels in an attempt to keep EMC happy with updates. They put it off saying that they were trying to find a Linux Engineer there to explain. For 3 years!!
I do not miss Novell. Not one bit.
Man, that sounds really familiar. I could see Oracle throwing a fit over them changing the kernel release. They freakout when you only give a server 8GB of swap space!
And what do you do about security updates and sometimes dependancy nightmare when yast throughs in SP1 as a dependancy.
The easiest way to fix that is by upgrading sles servers to redhat. Does Novell still use 3 separate and incompatible update mechanisms?
Nah, just a concise summary that easily dismisses a blowhard who likes to hear himself talk. Not everybody who thinks they are an articulate speaker really are articulate or espouse ideas that people care about. So, in addition to the those with the attention span of a 2 year old, you also have people who just don't care or have already dismissed the speaker as the aforementioned blowhard. And no, I didn't really make it past the second paragraph. You didn't look like you were going anywhere, and the journey looked dull.
I was disappointed to not find an appropriate car analogy while skimming the comments. Almost as fast as VNC sounds like an auto manufacturer hyping up their new model by claiming that it's almost as fast as a Yugo.
I'm sure it was at least non-obvious and a good project to work on though.
What did I find when I joined the sysadmin team at my place?
Putting cold air vents behind the racks doesn't help. Pull cold air through the front to the back? Nope. Chill the exhausted air because it sucks to walk behind the servers. Nice.
We used to have all of the servers aligned to face the same direction...so like 5 or 6 rows of racks where only the very first row consisted of servers not pulling in the exhaust from the row across the isle. Now the warm exhaust isles are nice places to thaw out if you've been at a kvm directly in the flow of the cold air.
A recent article on Google's data centers said that they run as close to maximum temperature as possible: if the servers are rated to 90, they only cool to 88. Google is extremely efficient. The article said that the energy overhead for their data centers is only about 20%, while most data centers run 100%. Because of that, I'm sure Google has studied the server fan issue and determined that it's not a significant factor.
Google also uses cheap commodity hardware that they have every expectation of failing unexpectedly (one of their known unknowns). Since they design massive redundancy with this in mind, it is not a problem for them. If your systems are not massively redundant, then it becomes a problem. The hotter you allow your systems to run, the greater chance you have of components failing...especially hard drives.
Somehow, I missed the original story. Must have been on travels at the time. Would someone help me with these basic questions? (I can't help being interested in the trivia. I love Sarah Palin stories. US politics would be so dull without her...)
- How did he hack the account? Guess the password? Do we know what the password was?
- Were funny email bits published on the net? Are they still available somewhere?
- How did the guy actually get caught?
-Guessed the password (or the password reset questions, forget which)
-Posted screenshots of the inbox, I do not recall any funny bits
-Posted to 4chan.