At no point in my original post do I mention any operating systems other than Windows and MacOS. I thought it was readily apparent that Linux's GUI, or lack thereof, wasn't an issue.
Apparently, to most, it wasn't.
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Maybe I've just been lucky (sort of). What sort of things have been fixed? The changelog doesn't seem to be too specific. The only problems I've had (and they don't seem to be occurring anymore) are xawtv not working in overlay mode and, once, the bttv drivers took my system down hard. Insmod'ing the drivers in the proper way seems to have fixed that.
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Ask anyone unfamiliar with computers: Windows is a horrible GUI to master, because of the simple fact that it's so damned inconsistent. The Interface Hall of Shame has a lot to say in this regard, but, to give some examples:
- What's the key combination to print something in Windows? - What's the key combination to close a window? - What's the key combination to save a file? - Where does Game X install itself in the Start menu?
Ask 10 people and you'll probably get at least 5 different answers, simply because every application is allowed to do things differently. This makes the learning curve exponentially greater because you need to learn the shortcuts for _every_ application!
As much as I hate the MacOS from a technical standpoint, it really does have everything else beat hands-down when it comes to simplicity and consistency. (Or at least it did -- Aqua looks pretty hideous...)
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..you can connect more than two damned devices to the chain. Currently, ATA is limited, at least in practice, to two devices per chain, making the 66 megabyte/second transfer rate grossly underutilized. How many hard disks can pull 33 MB/second sustained off the platters? Hint: none. And that doesn't even take into account the fact that, at least until about a month ago, there were no 10K rpm IDE drives, and there still are no 12K rpm IDE drives. ATA-100 looks to me like a sleazy way to dupe unsuspecting people who think their drives will magically become faster on a 100 MB/s two-device chain. (Maybe if the drives were solid-state... heh. Solid state IDE drives...)
If you can't connect a reasonable number of devices to a serial ATA chain (like, oh, 15, for instance?) it sounds to me like more hype than substance.
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For $149, you could build up a respectable render farm or anything else that requires massive amounts of parallel processing power. Someone's bound to mention "beowulf cluster!" at some point in these comments (lame as it is to mention it), and, for once, they'll be making some sense.
Other uses: $149 kickass webserver. $149 kickass Samba server. $149 kickass MP3 jukebox (and mp3 encoder). $149 kickass FTP server. $149 kickass IRC server. $149 kickass proxy server. (This is assuming the machine's running some form of UNIX, as a headless Windows box is about as useful as a bag of mud.)
You get my point.
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DALnet was pimping Conference Room for a while, because they sold their souls to Webmaster. Unfortunately, Conference Room is the biggest piece of shit IRC server ever thrust from the bowels of a company onto the face of an unsuspecting planet (not only because it runs on NT, either.) The person who spoofed Clinton is right: had they used a _real_ chat server that could handle the load, none of this would've happened.
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Metcalfe is a fucking idiot who, were it not for ethernet, would have done us all a favor by being stillborn. I can't believe people actually give him money to write the kind of crap he writes. - A.P. --
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Reduces the rumble. Direct-drive tables (yes, this includes the 1200s, of which I have a pair and would not trade for anything) introduce a lot of rumble and low-frequency noise. Expensive belt-drive decks (which are usually heavy as hell and take an awful long time to spin up) have little to no rumble problems, leading to a cleaner sound. The SL-1200 is definitely not an audiophile deck. But that's not what it's made for.
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Someone could rake in *shitloads* of money by starting a company that simply secures the machines of people too clueless or stupid to do it themselves. Wannabe-admins will set up a Solaris box, or a Linux box, or an Irix box, or an NT box, or God knows what else, and just expect it to be secure right out of the box, when the simple fact is, everything is broken out of the box and always will be broken, no matter how much you patch it!!! This is the mentality sysadmins need to keep in mind when they're securing their machines: you have to be very vigilant when you connect a machine to a network. Keep on top of all the latest security patches for your operating systems. Make sure you didn't miss any old ones (hell, the IMAP hole trinoo uses is fucking ancient, yet PEOPLE STILL HAVEN'T FIXED THEIR MACHINES!)
Sometimes it's not just the users who need a few beatings with the clue stick.
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I know I'm breaking my own rule here, but from now on I will no longer reply to him either. He's just posting shit like this to get the bonus karma from heavily-replied-to comments.
What he says is controversial only to those who would bother to reply to such inane, stupid viewpoints to begin with. Please do not give him forum.
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They just raised the budget another 1.2 billion dollars! Woo-fucking-hoo! The price of tolls will rise accordingly this month..
The Big Dig is the biggest fucking disaster in this history of the state of Massachusetts, IMO. Bigger than that stupid nightclub fire a few decades ago. Bigger than the Hancock Tower, even. It's a gaping money pit that just keeps growing deeper and deeper. It's *well* over budget, well behind schedule, and well-rehearsed at pissing off every single commuter that's been inconvenienced by it for the better part of 10 years now.
Will it ever be finished? I don't know. Nobody knows. I'll have entered college, spent 5 years here, and gotten my degree in less time than it'll end up taking, though, to give it some perspective. I probably could get another degree too before it's done. I guess all this time and money is making the mafia^H^H^H^H^H friends of the state government who run the construction firms really happy though.
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It has a command-line version (smitty) as well, and it'll default to that when you try and run it on a console or over a telnet session, etc. I've actually gotten to like the command-line menu version more than the X version, because it's faster and requires no mouse-clicking.
Still, hopefully IBM will continue its commitment to open source things, unlike some companies... *cough*sun*cough*.
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SMIT -- the system management tool for AIX -- will make any Linux user very, very jealous of anything on the Linux side as far as admin tools go. (Hell, it'll make any Sun or SGI admin jealous, too.) It can do _everything_ for you, and it's not shitty like Solaris' admintool -- it tells you exactly what commands it's going to run so you can duplicate them on the command line yourself in case something fucks up. It makes managing dozens of AIX boxes a breeze rather than a horrible chore. I would do very questionably legal things for a SMIT lookalike and workalike on Linux.
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Slashdot Mirror
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Apparently, to most, it wasn't.
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Ugh. The marketing division at Microsoft is getting as bad as the programming division.
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Thanks for that.
Guess they're sending a hit out for "Wakko Warner" now...
I should have called my account "Steve Balmer".
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- What's the key combination to print something in Windows?
- What's the key combination to close a window?
- What's the key combination to save a file?
- Where does Game X install itself in the Start menu?
Ask 10 people and you'll probably get at least 5 different answers, simply because every application is allowed to do things differently. This makes the learning curve exponentially greater because you need to learn the shortcuts for _every_ application!
As much as I hate the MacOS from a technical standpoint, it really does have everything else beat hands-down when it comes to simplicity and consistency. (Or at least it did -- Aqua looks pretty hideous...)
- A.P.
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If you can't connect a reasonable number of devices to a serial ATA chain (like, oh, 15, for instance?) it sounds to me like more hype than substance.
- A.P.
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Other uses:
$149 kickass webserver.
$149 kickass Samba server.
$149 kickass MP3 jukebox (and mp3 encoder).
$149 kickass FTP server.
$149 kickass IRC server.
$149 kickass proxy server.
(This is assuming the machine's running some form of UNIX, as a headless Windows box is about as useful as a bag of mud.)
You get my point.
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- A.P.
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Sometimes it's not just the users who need a few beatings with the clue stick.
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What he says is controversial only to those who would bother to reply to such inane, stupid viewpoints to begin with. Please do not give him forum.
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Say I'm in the next room running a packet sniffer.
Say you're _not_ using encryption, like a dumbass.
Say I steal your credit card info.
Cest la vie.
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Ouch.
Down 10 percent of the time? That's worse than Microsoft.
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ISO-9K is a great way to turn any company into a shithole.
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The Big Dig is the biggest fucking disaster in this history of the state of Massachusetts, IMO. Bigger than that stupid nightclub fire a few decades ago. Bigger than the Hancock Tower, even. It's a gaping money pit that just keeps growing deeper and deeper. It's *well* over budget, well behind schedule, and well-rehearsed at pissing off every single commuter that's been inconvenienced by it for the better part of 10 years now.
Will it ever be finished? I don't know. Nobody knows. I'll have entered college, spent 5 years here, and gotten my degree in less time than it'll end up taking, though, to give it some perspective. I probably could get another degree too before it's done. I guess all this time and money is making the mafia^H^H^H^H^H friends of the state government who run the construction firms really happy though.
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Still, hopefully IBM will continue its commitment to open source things, unlike some companies... *cough*sun*cough*.
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