We backup 1/2 a terrabyte nightly with Arkeia and it works beautifully. Legato costs too much, and is a bitch to configure. We are using ADIC Scalar 458's as the backup machines and dual 400mhz processor Linux baoxes with three SCSI cards each.
hmmm.... you just did a fairly good job of describing most every high school/college wannabe out there. maybe in a few years when you grow up and enter into the real world you will realize your idealistic dream is nowhere near reality.
Well i guess that means my long hair, and nipple peircings must go so that at 27 years old I can finally grow up, and realize that my 6 figure a year income, awesome wife, and two kids are nowhere near reality. I guess I should put down the Jolt! cola and stop coding till three in the morning.
oh do they? exactly what part of the world do you live in? every thing i have ever seen is quite different but then again, what do i know, after all you did read the article before it was posted to slashdot.
maybe he lives in TX like I do, and maybe he watched the news shows in which the only mention of Linux is when Linux users "marched" on MS headquarters to demand refunds. (I know there were fans of other OS's there but the local media didn't show them).
Oh but I forgot, I have long hair, tattoos, piercings and use caffeine to stay up longer, I don't live in reality, I live in an idealistic dream world.
People like shouldn't even bother reading/. As for suing, get a life there is nothing to sue for, besides Rob owns/. and he can do whatever he likes to the posts. Quit wasting bandwidth, better yet quit wasting air the rest of us might need some day and just kill yourself now.
Ok moderators, I am ready for the -1, go ahead quick...... _____________________________________ ___________________ Can We trust the future - Flesh99
Ellis, love your posts, but gotta correct you on this one. BMI and ASCAP represent songwriters and not the artists who perform the music. They Liscense venues to play music and they make sure the songwiter get his/her cut. For instance lets say you go to see Bigod 20 at a venue that does not have a BMI license, Bigod 20 could not cover Madonna's Like A Prayer.
Then RIAA however represents the record companies (RC) and artists themselves attempting to make sure the RC and the Artists get their cut. Last months DJ Times had a great interview with one of the head dudes. I feel the RIAA needs a top down change, they need people in there who understand digital distribution and advertisng, right now the RIAA is so old and moldy it serves only to police and not to advance as was the original goal. The current assualt on digital music is proof enough that change is needed, they claim the companies lose money from MP3 when CD sales have been on a steady rise since MP3 became so widely available.
But I will sopt b4 I get too far off topic. __________________________________________ ______________ Can We trust the future - Flesh99
I believe I pointed out that two businesses I owned already didn't succeed in the current world, they weren't good enough. Darwinism in the business world, man, only the strong survive _________________________________________ _______________ Can We trust the future - Flesh99
Actually, most of you have missed my point, I don't like MS, I hate them, I love the free market concept, and I have stated over and over again Linux will win, but this is not the way to do it. I also bitch about people not doing their research before bitching, I love a good debate. People do have a choice, they make a decision and you can get Linux pre-installed now on some major players systems. I am not trolling (at least not today) I use Linux at home and would be using it right now at the office if that machine wasn't tied up doing backups to 8 DLT drives (A feat NT has no hope of accomplishing). So just a side not, nope not a troll ___________________________________________ _____________ Can We trust the future - Flesh99
You misunderstand me, however that is easy to do. I support a free market, I think Brother Bill stole every idea he has marketed, I think M$ product is crap, I run Linux @ home and at the office. This to me is about free market and uneducated bitching, your comments have been very educated.
And in response to your being appalled, when management makes a desicion it is you job as an employee to abide by it or quit. I am not a consultant I am a project manager, my current project involoves backing up.5 terrabytes of data per night to DLT tape, NT will come nowhere near close to meeting out needs, I quashed that idea in the first meeting. We are going with standard Sun machines for the servers. I don't defend M$, I defend the pseudo-free market in th US ______________________________________________ __________ Can We trust the future - Flesh99
Please, the company still had a choice as did the person who took the job, this is America he could have quit. ___________________________________________ _____________ Can We trust the future - Flesh99
start with the definition of "free", I don't happen to have my Blacks Law dictionary handy. But I would venture to say out market doens't currently qualify, no. However I disagree with most business related laws, so...... ________________________________________ ________________ Can We trust the future - Flesh99
c'mon at least one of your points is invalid, most people think AOL invented the internet, and besides I would like to think that MAC stil has SOME market share, that Linux has a little and the M$ is crap. As for ignorance, in this country ignorance is a choice, I had stayed away from this point in my rant because I have said it so many times before, but M$ and Mac are the easiest OS's to use on the market, the public don't want to be informed they want easy. ___________________________________________ _____________ Can We trust the future - Flesh99
2. I always wear my seatbelt because I would like my childer to grow up with a father __________________________________________ ______________ Can We trust the future - Flesh99
I see perfectly good software and companies dissapear so a troublesome operating system line from a single vendor is the only choice I have at work
Choice at work is a non-issue, you should have no choice at work, whatever the compnay says is what goes. Guess what I have Linux at work, I also have NT, and Solaris. I have worked for companies that had desktops completely locked down you couldn't even change the background on your machine and guess what, they sign your check, it's their machine and doesn't have to be fun. ____________________________________________ ____________ Can We trust the future - Flesh99
You must be refering to licensing agreements, which last time I checked you still, as a company, don't have to enter into. As a company you have a choice as to whether or not to deal with M$ if you do then you suffer the cons and benefit from the pros, it is still a choice, I doubt M$ sends shotgun squads with their sales people. Once again get a grip. ___________________________________________ _____________ Can We trust the future - Flesh99
This is why I believe antitrust laws should be enforced
Get a grip people, unless you break the computer industry down into litlle bitty teeny tiny groups M$ doesn't have a monopoly. Why do you people have such a problem with allowing a company to be run in a free manner, Christ on a pogo stick, you people woudn't bitch if say....Debian had a majority market share. Why because you like Linux, no wait thats right RedHat is the ne M$. Why do you think the gov't should break up M$ because you don't like their product. Then don't flippin' use it. M$ is the best example of what ANYONE can do in a free market society, and just because they do it best you want them taken out, get a fucking grip. M$ releases new versions of it's software on a somwhat regular basis so they advance technology. They release bloated and top heavy software, but guess what, the AVERAGE (read that as consumer, you know the general public, the people who you are trying to save) person LIKES IT. Until we convince the public on a majority scale we can't afford to win, because by "saving them" from M$ we shove Linux down their throats, and that makes us just as bad. Oh and BTW check your local Best Buy, the have RedHat on the shelf right next to M$ Windows, don't try and tell me there is not a choice, in fact there is and the PUBLIC chooses M$. Why not spend the energy you spend by dreaming about ways to destroy M$, and try to get Linux ready for the open market, because it's not there yet. Oh yeah and SHUT UP about the DOJ, they are as bad as M$, what is they came after RedHat for some reason, even if it was valid half of/. would be up in arms.
You say the public are M$ sheep, well guess what pal people like you are Linux sheep. Sheep follow, it doesn't matter what you follow you are still a follower. People like are blind to the needs of the many like M$ but slightly different. I am going to shout up now but don't be suprised if you post an uneducated response and I get going again.
On second thought I am not near done yet. Half of the posts I see around here (on issues like this) are nothing but repetitve collective idiocy. People don't do their research, don't know the anti-trust laws, apperently don't know the definition of a FREE MARKET, yet they continue to bitch about M$, come on, there are better ways to slam M$ other than for having a monopoly (which technically they don't).
The DOJ needs to act and we need consumer groups to make sure we are protected.
Oh yeah thats a great idea, I suppose you think I shouldn't be allowed to ride a motorcycle without a helmet (dumb, but my right), drive without a seatbelt (dangerous to no-one but myself), own a gun (Oh God it might go off), hell why don't you say we shouldn't leave our houses at all unless the gov't says it's safe. There are too many goddanm laws as it is, the last thing I want is the gov't "protecting" me from myself. As for consumer groups, get real they would have to be run by consumers, and consumers use M$. If they weren't run by consumer who will get, some-one smarter. Give up if you can't compete don't enter the fucking market, Linux is coming of age and will win, but it will win with superior technology, persitance, vigilance, and honesty, it doesn't need the gov't help. I never yelled for my daddy when I was young and a bully came along, I have owned two businesses that were shut down beacause of large companies and I didn't run crying to anyone, even my wife, I went on and found a better business. If mom and pop can't compete put 'em in an old folks home and get back to business.
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Actually there is a McDonalds across the street from the University of Houston that has been doing something similar for a long time. ___________________________________________ _____________ Can We trust the future - Flesh99
Now if Novell would change their OS base to Linux instead of DOS they could get their market share back. ________________________________________________ ________ Can We trust the future - Flesh99
Think about that: what woulld really be more expensive? Would it be the port to NT, or the effort spent to make their Unix solution less intimidating
You are correct about that. I was off topic a bit, just ranting on about M$ slams, we all know they suck, but do we have to read it over and over and over again. I have to sort through hundreds of messages to find a few that actually have been thought though and are not just random M$ slamming. (This does not hold true for all threads)
But which would be more attractive to an IS manager, an NT solution for the bloated network that is his job security, or a well running Unix solution. I work tech support and project management, if the systems in my dept. were reliable half of my crew would be out of jobs. CCCorprate America doesn't want working solutions they want job security and NT provides that really well. (Only non-mission critical servers run NT where I work, all desktops are M$) ________________________________________________ ________ Can We trust the future - Flesh99
You know as much M$ slamming as goes on here, most end users never see the kinds of problems we as techs do. This is because they don't put their machines throught the rigorus workouts we do, they just write e-mail, read e-mail, play games, and d/l porn. I hate to point this out but M$ products are still easier to use then *nix products.
Most big companies would rather pay techs than have to train users to use *nix. Get over it, all Linux OS distros are free and the public (read: the average user) can't get them to install right. Besdies the severe lack of hardware support, X claims to support my Diamond Speedstar A50, but it has 8 megs of RAM and X will only see 1 meg. Until *nix can catch up in the harware support division ppl will buy M$. Xerox made a damn good descion for now, partnering with M$ will boost profits, up the stock price, and get them into offices they couldn't get into before. If they want to make more money then they made the right desicion, think about it their copiers are already there, the salesman walks in and says you already have NT servers and Xerox copiers, how about we tie them both together. Managers are going to go ape-sh*t. As for being smart technology wise, we all know the answer to that one; NO ! But Xerox is interested in what most companies are interested in, the Allmighty Dollar. Anyone ever wonder why RedHat is the most used distro in the consumer market, because THEY SELL IT. People still believe the ols addage " You get what you pay for ". People want M$, if you want to force them to use something else then you are no worse than Bill.
Face it we love Linux but it is nowhere near ready for the concumer market, people don't want to customize their interface, they don't want to have to decide on a windows manager, and they don't want to have to mount/unmount a CD drive every time they want to chage a CD. Linux is great for certain things (tech geeks are one of those things), but for the average consumer M$ or Mac OS is better. I hope the Linux will soon be user friednly. My dad asked me a question the other day, maybe someone out there can answer because I sure as hell couldn't "Pretend for a moment I am new computer user, tell me why I should run Linux" __________________________________________ ______________ Can We trust the future - Flesh99
At least he hires smart people, I'll bet his speech writers would never let him say he invented the internet. _______________________________________ _________________ Can We trust the future - Flesh99
My DSL from SW Bell is bieng installed on the 15'th of next month. The cost for 384k is only 40 USD per month and I can choose my ISP, the only other company advertising in my area is Northpoint and they want 150 USD per month. As much as I hate Ma Bell they are providing the cheapest access in Hou, TX ______________________________________________ __________ Can We trust the future - Flesh99
There is a small store here in Houston, Texas that sell geek ties. Printed circuit board ties, ties with mainframes on them, they even have a tie that is made out of printed circuit board, it's done like plate mail withe cloth behind it, kinda takes some getting used to but it look really cool at project meetings. _______________________________________ _________________ Can We trust the future - Flesh99
Allright here we go again. Minidisc uses a method along the same lines as MP3 does to compress audi0, it removes "in-audible" sound. On top of that it does it a set standard, you can't make a better mini-disc. Admittedly most of the MP3's currently available on the web are recorded and 128 KBps and 44.1 Mhz, you can record them at higher rates, in fact 160 KBps and any higher Mhz you can get better than CD sound. At the studio I work at we use MP3s to archive older sstuff and to send back and forth through e-mail for approval from artists. As for the problems with mini-disc and MP3 it's all in the midrange, they both blow goats on midrange sound. You want bitchin' sound buy a portable DAT.
Mini-disc vs. MP3
Artist Support Mini-Disc=none MP3=smal but growing Sound Quality Mini-Disc=median MP3=median-very good Downloadable media Mini-Disc=no MP3=yes
just to name a few differences So before you go slamming MP3s get the facts right and maybe talk to someone in the sound industry.
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MP4 will be at best twice as good at compressing music as MP3
Maybe but it's not an Mpeg compression, they are naming it that so the public doesn't look at it too hard. It's another attempt at anti piracy, look into it you won't be able to compress your own CDs etc. etc. not at all worth it. _____________________________________________ ___________ Can We trust the future - Flesh99
You produce one vendor that is selling the K3 at way too high a price, call your local wholesalers, you can can it 100-200 cheaper the a PIII. ________________________________________________ ________ Can We trust the future - Flesh99
Well I have been around/. for a while and frankly I am getting sick of gun control threads. I think most of us can agree that something needs to be done but none of us can agree as to what or how much. So lets just agree to disagree. I like reading Katz' stuff but every time he's posted something about Littleton the freak and fanatics on both sides of the gun issue come out of the woodwork. Guns are were the tools of something that started somewhere else, if you people want to discuss why this happened lets discuss it, but if you wanted to talk about why a house fell down would you talk about what hammer was used to build it ? So SHUT THE HELL UP ABOUT GUNS ALLREADY !!! If you want to discuss guns there are plenty of newsgroups you can get into mighty fine debates on, in fact the last couple of Katz' pieces were about the effect this is having to children for God's sake, and I have seen very few responses that covered what the article was actually talking about. Where are the moderators ? I won't filter Katz because while I might not agree with his opinion I at least can be inspired to think about things from a different direction.
To Gun Control Advocates: You are going to change no-ones opinion here, you haven't yet, and you won't
To Anti-Gun Cotrol Advocates: Same to you, these other folks are not going to change their minds no matter how much you scream about the Second Amendment, or self defense, or hunting
To Both Sides: SHUT THE HELL UP WE DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT ANYMORE neither side is winning, gaining points, or changing minds so give it a rest.
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We backup 1/2 a terrabyte nightly with Arkeia and it works beautifully. Legato costs too much, and is a bitch to configure. We are using ADIC Scalar 458's as the backup machines and dual 400mhz processor Linux baoxes with three SCSI cards each.
hmmm.... you just did a fairly good job of describing most every high school/college wannabe out there. maybe in a few years when you grow up and enter into the real world you will realize your idealistic dream is nowhere near reality.
Well i guess that means my long hair, and nipple peircings must go so that at 27 years old I can finally grow up, and realize that my 6 figure a year income, awesome wife, and two kids are nowhere near reality. I guess I should put down the Jolt! cola and stop coding till three in the morning.
oh do they? exactly what part of the world do you live in? every thing i have ever seen is quite different but then again, what do i know, after all you did read the article before it was posted to slashdot.
maybe he lives in TX like I do, and maybe he watched the news shows in which the only mention of Linux is when Linux users "marched" on MS headquarters to demand refunds. (I know there were fans of other OS's there but the local media didn't show them).
Oh but I forgot, I have long hair, tattoos, piercings and use caffeine to stay up longer, I don't live in reality, I live in an idealistic dream world.
Buy a clue or somethin'
People like shouldn't even bother reading /. As for suing, get a life there is nothing to sue for, besides Rob owns /. and he can do whatever he likes to the posts. Quit wasting bandwidth, better yet quit wasting air the rest of us might need some day and just kill yourself now.
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Ok moderators, I am ready for the -1, go ahead quick......
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Ellis, love your posts, but gotta correct you on this one. BMI and ASCAP represent songwriters and not the artists who perform the music. They Liscense venues to play music and they make sure the songwiter get his/her cut. For instance lets say you go to see Bigod 20 at a venue that does not have a BMI license, Bigod 20 could not cover Madonna's Like A Prayer.
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Then RIAA however represents the record companies (RC) and artists themselves attempting to make sure the RC and the Artists get their cut. Last months DJ Times had a great interview with one of the head dudes. I feel the RIAA needs a top down change, they need people in there who understand digital distribution and advertisng, right now the RIAA is so old and moldy it serves only to police and not to advance as was the original goal. The current assualt on digital music is proof enough that change is needed, they claim the companies lose money from MP3 when CD sales have been on a steady rise since MP3 became so widely available.
But I will sopt b4 I get too far off topic.
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I believe I pointed out that two businesses I owned already didn't succeed in the current world, they weren't good enough. Darwinism in the business world, man, only the strong survive_ _______________
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Actually, most of you have missed my point, I don't like MS, I hate them, I love the free market concept, and I have stated over and over again Linux will win, but this is not the way to do it. I also bitch about people not doing their research before bitching, I love a good debate. People do have a choice, they make a decision and you can get Linux pre-installed now on some major players systems. I am not trolling (at least not today) I use Linux at home and would be using it right now at the office if that machine wasn't tied up doing backups to 8 DLT drives (A feat NT has no hope of accomplishing). So just a side not, nope not a troll_ _____________
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You misunderstand me, however that is easy to do. I support a free market, I think Brother Bill stole every idea he has marketed, I think M$ product is crap, I run Linux @ home and at the office. This to me is about free market and uneducated bitching, your comments have been very educated.
.5 terrabytes of data per night to DLT tape, NT will come nowhere near close to meeting out needs, I quashed that idea in the first meeting. We are going with standard Sun machines for the servers. I don't defend M$, I defend the pseudo-free market in th US_ __________
And in response to your being appalled, when management makes a desicion it is you job as an employee to abide by it or quit. I am not a consultant I am a project manager, my current project involoves backing up
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Please, the company still had a choice as did the person who took the job, this is America he could have quit._ _____________
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start with the definition of "free", I don't happen to have my Blacks Law dictionary handy. But I would venture to say out market doens't currently qualify, no. However I disagree with most business related laws, so......_ ________________
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c'mon at least one of your points is invalid, most people think AOL invented the internet, and besides I would like to think that MAC stil has SOME market share, that Linux has a little and the M$ is crap. As for ignorance, in this country ignorance is a choice, I had stayed away from this point in my rant because I have said it so many times before, but M$ and Mac are the easiest OS's to use on the market, the public don't want to be informed they want easy._ _____________
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Just going to extremes to prove my point.
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Facts
1. I don't now nor ever will own a motorcycle
2. I always wear my seatbelt because I would like my childer to grow up with a father
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I see perfectly good software and companies dissapear so a troublesome operating system line from a single vendor is the only choice I have at work
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Choice at work is a non-issue, you should have no choice at work, whatever the compnay says is what goes. Guess what I have Linux at work, I also have NT, and Solaris. I have worked for companies that had desktops completely locked down you couldn't even change the background on your machine and guess what, they sign your check, it's their machine and doesn't have to be fun.
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You must be refering to licensing agreements, which last time I checked you still, as a company, don't have to enter into. As a company you have a choice as to whether or not to deal with M$ if you do then you suffer the cons and benefit from the pros, it is still a choice, I doubt M$ sends shotgun squads with their sales people. Once again get a grip._ _____________
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/. would be up in arms.
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This is why I believe antitrust laws should be enforced
Get a grip people, unless you break the computer industry down into litlle bitty teeny tiny groups M$ doesn't have a monopoly. Why do you people have such a problem with allowing a company to be run in a free manner, Christ on a pogo stick, you people woudn't bitch if say....Debian had a majority market share. Why because you like Linux, no wait thats right RedHat is the ne M$. Why do you think the gov't should break up M$ because you don't like their product. Then don't flippin' use it. M$ is the best example of what ANYONE can do in a free market society, and just because they do it best you want them taken out, get a fucking grip. M$ releases new versions of it's software on a somwhat regular basis so they advance technology. They release bloated and top heavy software, but guess what, the AVERAGE (read that as consumer, you know the general public, the people who you are trying to save) person LIKES IT. Until we convince the public on a majority scale we can't afford to win, because by "saving them" from M$ we shove Linux down their throats, and that makes us just as bad. Oh and BTW check your local Best Buy, the have RedHat on the shelf right next to M$ Windows, don't try and tell me there is not a choice, in fact there is and the PUBLIC chooses M$. Why not spend the energy you spend by dreaming about ways to destroy M$, and try to get Linux ready for the open market, because it's not there yet. Oh yeah and SHUT UP about the DOJ, they are as bad as M$, what is they came after RedHat for some reason, even if it was valid half of
You say the public are M$ sheep, well guess what pal people like you are Linux sheep. Sheep follow, it doesn't matter what you follow you are still a follower. People like are blind to the needs of the many like M$ but slightly different. I am going to shout up now but don't be suprised if you post an uneducated response and I get going again.
On second thought I am not near done yet. Half of the posts I see around here (on issues like this) are nothing but repetitve collective idiocy. People don't do their research, don't know the anti-trust laws, apperently don't know the definition of a FREE MARKET, yet they continue to bitch about M$, come on, there are better ways to slam M$ other than for having a monopoly (which technically they don't).
The DOJ needs to act and we need consumer groups to make sure we are protected.
Oh yeah thats a great idea, I suppose you think I shouldn't be allowed to ride a motorcycle without a helmet (dumb, but my right), drive without a seatbelt (dangerous to no-one but myself), own a gun (Oh God it might go off), hell why don't you say we shouldn't leave our houses at all unless the gov't says it's safe. There are too many goddanm laws as it is, the last thing I want is the gov't "protecting" me from myself. As for consumer groups, get real they would have to be run by consumers, and consumers use M$. If they weren't run by consumer who will get, some-one smarter. Give up if you can't compete don't enter the fucking market, Linux is coming of age and will win, but it will win with superior technology, persitance, vigilance, and honesty, it doesn't need the gov't help. I never yelled for my daddy when I was young and a bully came along, I have owned two businesses that were shut down beacause of large companies and I didn't run crying to anyone, even my wife, I went on and found a better business. If mom and pop can't compete put 'em in an old folks home and get back to business.
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Actually there is a McDonalds across the street from the University of Houston that has been doing something similar for a long time._ _____________
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Now if Novell would change their OS base to Linux instead of DOS they could get their market share back._ ________
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Think about that: what woulld really be more expensive? Would it be the port to NT, or the effort spent to make their Unix solution less intimidating
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You are correct about that. I was off topic a bit, just ranting on about M$ slams, we all know they suck, but do we have to read it over and over and over again. I have to sort through hundreds of messages to find a few that actually have been thought though and are not just random M$ slamming. (This does not hold true for all threads)
But which would be more attractive to an IS manager, an NT solution for the bloated network that is his job security, or a well running Unix solution. I work tech support and project management, if the systems in my dept. were reliable half of my crew would be out of jobs. CCCorprate America doesn't want working solutions they want job security and NT provides that really well. (Only non-mission critical servers run NT where I work, all desktops are M$)
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You know as much M$ slamming as goes on here, most end users never see the kinds of problems we as techs do. This is because they don't put their machines throught the rigorus workouts we do, they just write e-mail, read e-mail, play games, and d/l porn. I hate to point this out but M$ products are still easier to use then *nix products.
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Most big companies would rather pay techs than have to train users to use *nix. Get over it, all Linux OS distros are free and the public (read: the average user) can't get them to install right. Besdies the severe lack of hardware support, X claims to support my Diamond Speedstar A50, but it has 8 megs of RAM and X will only see 1 meg. Until *nix can catch up in the harware support division ppl will buy M$. Xerox made a damn good descion for now, partnering with M$ will boost profits, up the stock price, and get them into offices they couldn't get into before. If they want to make more money then they made the right desicion, think about it their copiers are already there, the salesman walks in and says you already have NT servers and Xerox copiers, how about we tie them both together. Managers are going to go ape-sh*t. As for being smart technology wise, we all know the answer to that one; NO ! But Xerox is interested in what most companies are interested in, the Allmighty Dollar. Anyone ever wonder why RedHat is the most used distro in the consumer market, because THEY SELL IT. People still believe the ols addage " You get what you pay for ". People want M$, if you want to force them to use something else then you are no worse than Bill.
Face it we love Linux but it is nowhere near ready for the concumer market, people don't want to customize their interface, they don't want to have to decide on a windows manager, and they don't want to have to mount/unmount a CD drive every time they want to chage a CD. Linux is great for certain things (tech geeks are one of those things), but for the average consumer M$ or Mac OS is better. I hope the Linux will soon be user friednly. My dad asked me a question the other day, maybe someone out there can answer because I sure as hell couldn't "Pretend for a moment I am new computer user, tell me why I should run Linux"
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At least he hires smart people, I'll bet his speech writers would never let him say he invented the internet._ _________________
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My DSL from SW Bell is bieng installed on the 15'th of next month. The cost for 384k is only 40 USD per month and I can choose my ISP, the only other company advertising in my area is Northpoint and they want 150 USD per month. As much as I hate Ma Bell they are providing the cheapest access in Hou, TX_ __________
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There is a small store here in Houston, Texas that sell geek ties. Printed circuit board ties, ties with mainframes on them, they even have a tie that is made out of printed circuit board, it's done like plate mail withe cloth behind it, kinda takes some getting used to but it look really cool at project meetings._ _________________
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Allright here we go again. Minidisc uses a method along the same lines as MP3 does to compress audi0, it removes "in-audible" sound. On top of that it does it a set standard, you can't make a better mini-disc. Admittedly most of the MP3's currently available on the web are recorded and 128 KBps and 44.1 Mhz, you can record them at higher rates, in fact 160 KBps and any higher Mhz you can get better than CD sound. At the studio I work at we use MP3s to archive older sstuff and to send back and forth through e-mail for approval from artists. As for the problems with mini-disc and MP3 it's all in the midrange, they both blow goats on midrange sound. You want bitchin' sound buy a portable DAT.
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Mini-disc vs. MP3
Artist Support
Mini-Disc=none MP3=smal but growing
Sound Quality
Mini-Disc=median MP3=median-very good
Downloadable media
Mini-Disc=no MP3=yes
just to name a few differences
So before you go slamming MP3s get the facts right and maybe talk to someone in the sound industry.
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Can We trust the future - Flesh99
MP4 will be at best twice as good at compressing music as MP3
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Maybe but it's not an Mpeg compression, they are naming it that so the public doesn't look at it too hard. It's another attempt at anti piracy, look into it you won't be able to compress your own CDs etc. etc. not at all worth it.
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Can We trust the future - Flesh99
You produce one vendor that is selling the K3 at way too high a price, call your local wholesalers, you can can it 100-200 cheaper the a PIII._ ________
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Can We trust the future - Flesh99
Well I have been around /. for a while and frankly I am getting sick of gun control threads. I think most of us can agree that something needs to be done but none of us can agree as to what or how much. So lets just agree to disagree. I like reading Katz' stuff but every time he's posted something about Littleton the freak and fanatics on both sides of the gun issue come out of the woodwork. Guns are were the tools of something that started somewhere else, if you people want to discuss why this happened lets discuss it, but if you wanted to talk about why a house fell down would you talk about what hammer was used to build it ? So SHUT THE HELL UP ABOUT GUNS ALLREADY !!! If you want to discuss guns there are plenty of newsgroups you can get into mighty fine debates on, in fact the last couple of Katz' pieces were about the effect this is having to children for God's sake, and I have seen very few responses that covered what the article was actually talking about. Where are the moderators ? I won't filter Katz because while I might not agree with his opinion I at least can be inspired to think about things from a different direction.
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To Gun Control Advocates: You are going to change no-ones opinion here, you haven't yet, and you won't
To Anti-Gun Cotrol Advocates: Same to you, these other folks are not going to change their minds no matter how much you scream about the Second Amendment, or self defense, or hunting
To Both Sides: SHUT THE HELL UP WE DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT ANYMORE neither side is winning, gaining points, or changing minds so give it a rest.
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Can We trust the future - Flesh99