Come on, folks. Netscape 4.7x is 1998 technology. You're better off using a new, real browser anyway (be it IE 5.x or Mozilla). There are SO many things Netscape 4 can't do; it's a wonder people still use that hulking pile of garbage. I really hope more sites start restricting access to it so I don't have to develop for it anymore.
In short: Upgrade your browser to something made this century.
It's about 15 grand for a webserver license... so maybe we could get 15 thousand slashdot users to sign up for a dollar a year (that's about all I'd pay) so Rob could afford a database that's a little more robust than a flat text file...
I actually hooked it up to my Palm Pilot, and affixed the Palm Pilot to the wall, and lit it with light strips I got from Thinkgeek, and connected one of the controllers to my serial port and hacked together a rudimentary driver and special CD with my own bootstrap code so I could make the Playstation 2 display system information (like my 9 day uptime!) to my wall-mounted Palm Pilot.
I got screwed out of $400 once on eBay. The guy was using a PayPal account, thankfully. I called my bank and disputed the charges (which I'd paid with my debit card). I guess it helps that my bank is JP Morgan-Chase (the largest in the country), because, within a couple of months, I'd strongarmed my money back into my pocket. All of it.
It probably depends a lot on your bank/credit card company, but I've been 1-for-1 so far. (I don't intend to try for 2-for-2.)
Recurring vs. fixed costs. General accounting. If I spend $250 for a DLT2000XT drive (which I did) or $150 for a DDS-3 drive (which you can) or even $120 for a CD-R, that's a one-shot deal. The funny thing is, the tapes are almost a one-shot deal with DLT drives. When all is said and done, you'll end up spending more backing your system up to CD-R than I will to my DLT drive, and, unless you use $1 Kodak Golds, I daresay my DLT tapes will outlast your CD-Rs.
There's a reason businesses use these things... and it's one of the reasons I choose to use it to. (It was also affordable.)
Why bother with a dat tape? They're bloody expensive.
Huh? DDS-1 tapes can hold 2/4GB and are about $3. A DDS-2 tape is well under $10 and can be used hundreds of times before you have to toss it. DLT tapes are rated for thousands of passes and cost about $30. So, you either spend (20 cents * 2000) = 400 dollars on CD-Rs, or 30 bucks on a DLT tape...
I've got about 300 gigs (soon 700) on my network. Most of that is MP3s and (soon) SHNs. This stuff has all been burnt to CD long in the past, so it's safe, so I don't bother to back it up.
That having been said, get yourself a DDS-2, DDS-3, or DLT drive next time. Back up as much of the important stuff as you can. I'm pretty sure you'll run out of "important" stuff before you run out of even a DDS-2 tape. It's awfully hard for me to find 4 gigs of stuff I absolutely can't live without on my machine.
Good luck in your recovery efforts; hopefully in the future, if you get a decent tape drive, you won't need to worry about it so much.
...we're making a tremendous leap of logic in assuming the EULAs are legally binding, aren't we?
- A.P.
once again, slashdot misreporting at its best.
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RIAA Wants Right To Hack
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The article states explicitly that the RIAA is no longer trying to get those hacking provisions made into laws. Sorry, guys. Read the article next time before you post this bullshit.
Yeah, simply because there's no pay-for-play content for broadband on the Internet anymore, broadband is dead. This is, of course, bullshit.
Cringley dismisses out-of-hand the porn industry, which is the #2 broadband content provider on the Internet. #1, you ask? Ever download an MP3?
File-sharing is here to stay, and it's the driving force behind broadband. Nobody that has cable modems or DSL lines is going to give them up once they've gotten a taste of them, and nobody who has them will ever go back to modem unless it's their ONLY option.
It depends on your definition of the job, doesn't it? If all you need to do is store 256MB of data then, by all means, buy a $20 256MB DIMM (and just hope you never lose power.)
If, on the other hand, you need 100 GB of storage, you're not going to stock up on RAM, are you? In that case, both you and Cliff are still wrong: a usable amount of RAM is not cheaper than any new drive you could buy today to do the SAME job.
What possible benefit can we, the public whose tax dollars support NASA, see from space exploration? Obviously, someone has decided that the money would be better spent elsewhere, and the only people I see complaining are the occasional Slashdot user.
Obviously, if we all wanted it, we'd be pissing away billions of dollars on space exploration, which so far has netted us a handful of rocks, Tang, and Astronaut Ice Cream.
Who here is shocked by this news? HP has been helping (er, okay, basically designing for them) with the Itanium for years now. Is it really big news that Intel is hiring their chip designers?
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They say it can perform as fast as 10,000 desktop PC's combined in one second.
This line is really poorly-worded guys...
How can you combine 10 thousand PCs in one second? Teamwork?
You could at least spell "Millennium" properly. Christ.
Come on, folks. Netscape 4.7x is 1998 technology. You're better off using a new, real browser anyway (be it IE 5.x or Mozilla). There are SO many things Netscape 4 can't do; it's a wonder people still use that hulking pile of garbage. I really hope more sites start restricting access to it so I don't have to develop for it anymore.
In short: Upgrade your browser to something made this century.
- A.P.
...bets on how much money Microsoft will lose on the XBox? This could be their very own Newton.
- A.P.
It's about 15 grand for a webserver license... so maybe we could get 15 thousand slashdot users to sign up for a dollar a year (that's about all I'd pay) so Rob could afford a database that's a little more robust than a flat text file...
- A.P.
I actually hooked it up to my Palm Pilot, and affixed the Palm Pilot to the wall, and lit it with light strips I got from Thinkgeek, and connected one of the controllers to my serial port and hacked together a rudimentary driver and special CD with my own bootstrap code so I could make the Playstation 2 display system information (like my 9 day uptime!) to my wall-mounted Palm Pilot.
But now I can run Linux on it. Hot shit!
- A.P.
Wow, this is great news.
You see, I bought my Playstation 2 a year ago, and I've had no idea what to do with it till now!
- A.P.
It'd be great if people could read the threads here and try to figure out what is going on.
Isn't that your job, mister slashdot editor???
- A.P.
I got screwed out of $400 once on eBay. The guy was using a PayPal account, thankfully. I called my bank and disputed the charges (which I'd paid with my debit card). I guess it helps that my bank is JP Morgan-Chase (the largest in the country), because, within a couple of months, I'd strongarmed my money back into my pocket. All of it.
It probably depends a lot on your bank/credit card company, but I've been 1-for-1 so far. (I don't intend to try for 2-for-2.)
- A.P.
Check eBay. I got mine there from a reputable seller last year. They've dropped in price about 30-50 percent since I bought mine, it would seem.
Recurring vs. fixed costs. General accounting. If I spend $250 for a DLT2000XT drive (which I did) or $150 for a DDS-3 drive (which you can) or even $120 for a CD-R, that's a one-shot deal. The funny thing is, the tapes are almost a one-shot deal with DLT drives. When all is said and done, you'll end up spending more backing your system up to CD-R than I will to my DLT drive, and, unless you use $1 Kodak Golds, I daresay my DLT tapes will outlast your CD-Rs.
There's a reason businesses use these things... and it's one of the reasons I choose to use it to. (It was also affordable.)
- A.P.
Why bother with a dat tape? They're bloody expensive.
Huh? DDS-1 tapes can hold 2/4GB and are about $3. A DDS-2 tape is well under $10 and can be used hundreds of times before you have to toss it. DLT tapes are rated for thousands of passes and cost about $30. So, you either spend (20 cents * 2000) = 400 dollars on CD-Rs, or 30 bucks on a DLT tape...
- A.P.
I've got about 300 gigs (soon 700) on my network. Most of that is MP3s and (soon) SHNs. This stuff has all been burnt to CD long in the past, so it's safe, so I don't bother to back it up.
That having been said, get yourself a DDS-2, DDS-3, or DLT drive next time. Back up as much of the important stuff as you can. I'm pretty sure you'll run out of "important" stuff before you run out of even a DDS-2 tape. It's awfully hard for me to find 4 gigs of stuff I absolutely can't live without on my machine.
Good luck in your recovery efforts; hopefully in the future, if you get a decent tape drive, you won't need to worry about it so much.
- A.P.
If it can keep its database up long enough, sure.... :)
...we're making a tremendous leap of logic in assuming the EULAs are legally binding, aren't we?
- A.P.
The article states explicitly that the RIAA is no longer trying to get those hacking provisions made into laws. Sorry, guys. Read the article next time before you post this bullshit.
- A.P.
I thought the 34-cent stamp took care of that pretty well.
I'm not exactly afraid of getting Anthrax in the mail.
- A.P.
Yeah, simply because there's no pay-for-play content for broadband on the Internet anymore, broadband is dead. This is, of course, bullshit.
Cringley dismisses out-of-hand the porn industry, which is the #2 broadband content provider on the Internet. #1, you ask? Ever download an MP3?
File-sharing is here to stay, and it's the driving force behind broadband. Nobody that has cable modems or DSL lines is going to give them up once they've gotten a taste of them, and nobody who has them will ever go back to modem unless it's their ONLY option.
I'll believe it when I see it, Mr. Cringely.
The pros:
So, um, who would buy this, seriously?
- A.P.
It depends on your definition of the job, doesn't it? If all you need to do is store 256MB of data then, by all means, buy a $20 256MB DIMM (and just hope you never lose power.)
If, on the other hand, you need 100 GB of storage, you're not going to stock up on RAM, are you? In that case, both you and Cliff are still wrong: a usable amount of RAM is not cheaper than any new drive you could buy today to do the SAME job.
- A.P.
Memory is now cheaper per unit of currency than hard drives
Er, no it isn't. A 100 GB hard drive is $200. 100 gigs of RAM is... a hell of a lot more than that...
- A.P.
Read the paper. Nothing to do with AIM.
Boo, bad troll.
- A.P.
Okay, then, KDE's window manager, kwm. And gnome's window manager, "whatever they're calling it this week."
- A.P.
What possible benefit can we, the public whose tax dollars support NASA, see from space exploration? Obviously, someone has decided that the money would be better spent elsewhere, and the only people I see complaining are the occasional Slashdot user.
Obviously, if we all wanted it, we'd be pissing away billions of dollars on space exploration, which so far has netted us a handful of rocks, Tang, and Astronaut Ice Cream.
Sad? Hardly. Unless you can't live without Tang.
- A.P.
Who here is shocked by this news? HP has been helping (er, okay, basically designing for them) with the Itanium for years now. Is it really big news that Intel is hiring their chip designers?