Is Slashdot becoming "New Product Announcements Dot Com" or something? When American Standard releases a new toilet, are we gonna hear about it here first? Frankly, it seems pretty apt; that's where this site seems to be headed.
The guy writes installer scripts for a living. Every other unix has a Bourne shell implementation except Linux, and Linux's/bin/bash has incompatibilities. Telling the guy to fuck off and use something else has got to be the most ignorant thing I've ever heard. I'm sure he can tell his boss the same thing, right? "Fuck this, I'm gonna use ksh so it works on... AIX only!"
Ask Slashdot becomes less helpful by the nanosecond.
You're also assuming they pay retail for their parts. You really think Intel is charging them $85 per chip and $39 per board? A built-in GeForce 3 is certainly going to cost less, per-chip, than an AGP board.
I was just showing you could build a comparable box for distributed network computing for much less than the XBox's cost, not a high-end gaming rig.
After three semesters of college in Boston, I had moved back home for a semester of co-op. Unfortunately, I'd forgotten to re-route a package that was being delivered to me via UPS. I called them up, had it rerouted, and they assured me that the driver would be notified about the reroute and not deliver the package.
Apparently they never called. What's worse, the UPS driver had some random person in the apartment sign it for me, rather than do what's supposed to be done and refuse delivery without a signature from me. UPS told me, however, that everything was okay.
That fucking package sat in the doorway of vacant apartment for two weeks before I found out about it (yay online shipment info.) Rather than deal with those fuckwits again, I had the apartment superintendent mail it to my home address via Priority Mail. It got there in 3 days.
What did I learn from the experience? Well, two things. Firstly, I had some very honest people in my apartment building and, secondly, UPS sucks ballon-knot, mummy-mouth style.
You obviously haven't used anything on UNIX that isn't free, then.
UNIX license managers are as bad as, if not worse than, NT/Windows licensing schemes.
People bitch on slashdot all the time about hardware-locked licenses. The fact of the matter is, this has been the gold-standard in the UNIX world for a very, very long time for any sort of high-end software package. When you're spending $80,000 per seat on CATIA, you can be sure there's no way you'll be able to pirate it. Ever been faxed a 3-page license, with separate keys for each *feature*? Sitting there and typing them all in manually is... annoying. And, unless you're using floating licenses, you've got to do it for every machine. (Thankfully, we used floating licenses...)
Netscape's been dead for 3 years. Every time the DOJ finally gets around to hauling Microsoft into court over some transgression, by the time they finally win the case and decide upon a remedy, the wake's over, the funeral's finished, and the body of their competitor has already been buried and left to rot.
It isn't all Microsoft's fault, though. Netscape rolled over and obediently died after the first shot was fired. Does anyone even *use* Netscape anymore? What about WordPerfect? Lotus 1-2-3? Yeah, they all *exist*, but who the hell cares? The thing is, people would probably still use these products if Microsoft hadn't spent years improving their own force-fed offerings whilst litigation was pending. What's the last "innovative", or even the last remotely interesting thing Netscape's done though? Hell, 4.7 is 3 years old, doesn't support half of HTML 3.x, and is just as buggy and unstable as ever. And don't get me started on 6!
Sure, Microsoft's done plenty of bad shit, but, with the exception of the tiny companies, they've had an awful lot of help from their competitors. I don't see this changing any time soon.
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....manos....
.... the hands of fate.
Is Slashdot becoming "New Product Announcements Dot Com" or something? When American Standard releases a new toilet, are we gonna hear about it here first? Frankly, it seems pretty apt; that's where this site seems to be headed.
- A.P.
...slashdot sure seems to have blown its collective load several times over since the XBox's release.
- A.P.
The guy writes installer scripts for a living. Every other unix has a Bourne shell implementation except Linux, and Linux's /bin/bash has incompatibilities. Telling the guy to fuck off and use something else has got to be the most ignorant thing I've ever heard. I'm sure he can tell his boss the same thing, right? "Fuck this, I'm gonna use ksh so it works on... AIX only!"
Ask Slashdot becomes less helpful by the nanosecond.
- A.P.
You're also assuming they pay retail for their parts. You really think Intel is charging them $85 per chip and $39 per board? A built-in GeForce 3 is certainly going to cost less, per-chip, than an AGP board.
I was just showing you could build a comparable box for distributed network computing for much less than the XBox's cost, not a high-end gaming rig.
- A.P.
AMD Duron 700 and motherboard combo, with CPU heatsink and fan: $79
64 MB SDRAM (I shit you not): $1 (hell, let's get 2.)
NVidia GeForce2 GTS (yes, it's no GeForce 3, but we're looking for a cluster computer, so do we even need something this expensive?): $65
20 GB hard disk: $63
System case (400W ATX): $20
D-Link DFE-530TX 10/100 ethernet (something name-brand-ish): $9
So, minus shipping, we have a $238 700 MHz system, well below the price of an XBox and infinitely more configurable.
- A.P.
...I mean, I can build a cheap PC with all that crap for less than the asking price of an Xbox.
- A.P.
After three semesters of college in Boston, I had moved back home for a semester of co-op. Unfortunately, I'd forgotten to re-route a package that was being delivered to me via UPS. I called them up, had it rerouted, and they assured me that the driver would be notified about the reroute and not deliver the package.
Apparently they never called. What's worse, the UPS driver had some random person in the apartment sign it for me, rather than do what's supposed to be done and refuse delivery without a signature from me. UPS told me, however, that everything was okay.
That fucking package sat in the doorway of vacant apartment for two weeks before I found out about it (yay online shipment info.) Rather than deal with those fuckwits again, I had the apartment superintendent mail it to my home address via Priority Mail. It got there in 3 days.
What did I learn from the experience? Well, two things. Firstly, I had some very honest people in my apartment building and, secondly, UPS sucks ballon-knot, mummy-mouth style.
- A.P.
By the looks of things, they're rattling around all over the place in the computer right now.
- A.P.
we want porn! porn for kids!
(tv funhouse reference)
I also don't use a monitor because I can't stand my computer being able to show me things.
By the time they release an IDE drive that hits 1 petabyte, ATA-133 will be long-dead.
The SCA drive costs no more than the 68-pin version of the drive, generally.
- A.P.
How the hell is this a front-page-worthy story?
What's it like working for Burger King?
- A.P.
This post is so full of factual errors it's astounding.
But someone already addressed them all before me.
I'm just suggesting a new moderation category.
"IRC is like a game. You get a point every time someone kicks you or you make them cry."
- A.P.
You obviously haven't used anything on UNIX that isn't free, then.
UNIX license managers are as bad as, if not worse than, NT/Windows licensing schemes.
People bitch on slashdot all the time about hardware-locked licenses. The fact of the matter is, this has been the gold-standard in the UNIX world for a very, very long time for any sort of high-end software package. When you're spending $80,000 per seat on CATIA, you can be sure there's no way you'll be able to pirate it. Ever been faxed a 3-page license, with separate keys for each *feature*? Sitting there and typing them all in manually is... annoying. And, unless you're using floating licenses, you've got to do it for every machine. (Thankfully, we used floating licenses...)
- A.P.
You're asking why newer games can't be designed to run on older PCs?
Are you on crack? Do you know just how much new, graphics-laden games would royally suck if they were designed with, say, a Pentium 90 in mind?
- A.P.
Wow, not only are you a spook...
...but you've got a sub-300 Slashdot UID.
You are the most leet of all.
This is slashdot. $12 to some people here is a month's pay!!
...smell that? that's a steaming heap of Apple quality.
- A.P.
Netscape's been dead for 3 years. Every time the DOJ finally gets around to hauling Microsoft into court over some transgression, by the time they finally win the case and decide upon a remedy, the wake's over, the funeral's finished, and the body of their competitor has already been buried and left to rot.
It isn't all Microsoft's fault, though. Netscape rolled over and obediently died after the first shot was fired. Does anyone even *use* Netscape anymore? What about WordPerfect? Lotus 1-2-3? Yeah, they all *exist*, but who the hell cares? The thing is, people would probably still use these products if Microsoft hadn't spent years improving their own force-fed offerings whilst litigation was pending. What's the last "innovative", or even the last remotely interesting thing Netscape's done though? Hell, 4.7 is 3 years old, doesn't support half of HTML 3.x, and is just as buggy and unstable as ever. And don't get me started on 6!
Sure, Microsoft's done plenty of bad shit, but, with the exception of the tiny companies, they've had an awful lot of help from their competitors. I don't see this changing any time soon.
- A.P.
"Rob Malda and the Disappearing Slashdot Database".
- A.P.
So what was it they cracked down on again?
- A.P.
...I learned how to make certain things out of easily-available common household items, but I doubt you could put any of them in a thesis.
- A.P.