I understand that people like ubuntu but it is not really helping linux. I upgraded my box to 11.04 over the past two days from a much older release and around 10.04 got hit with a bug because grub was not updated. This was a well known bug that was spotted in testing and never got fixed. It is not the first time something like this has happened. Frequently updates will bork settings or a function like sound. It has gotten so bad that a non-profit I help out at will not run any updates unless I am there.
Usually a google search and some command line will fix things but this is not how you spread linux. The ubuntu community really needs to get better about making sure that updates/upgrades work. They continue to do good hard work and it is a shame that the work is undermined by stupid bugs that are known but never fixed.
if you have a problem with getting $600 together you are not running a datacenter. We ended up spending between 10 and 20k on a bunch of Mr. Slim units and have been happy.
You can try and be cheap but when you are talking computing you have to have at least 1k to spend on a problem at any point in time. if you can't, get a fruit stand and do that.
Are you serious? Can't beleive this made slashdot.
Try going to Europe. Last time I went to the CCC Congress in Berlin the uplink was 600 mbit. They usually put up signs on the second deay stating "use more bandwidth."
Usually crappy US show network. Go over to Europe where they know how to put on a show. Very few rules and even those are flexible.
Oh, and the number of machines stolen over the past 23 years can be counted on one hand.
They should have quit years ago. They mainly had the bottom of the business and their chipsets just never quite worked right. From the first super-seven chipset of the pentium era that was almost as stable as intel to the athlon chipset I have that doesn't support PCI busmastering. Between the board makers and VIA you knew there was always going to be something wrong.
Now that there are cheap boards from other manufacturers that are stable and have good drivers they have no reason to be in that market.
Do not start the update procedure unless you do not need your machine for a while. On stage 2 of 3 on a fairly beefy box(5.1 vista experience) and it has been chugging for about 15 min and shows 2% done.
The solution is a simple case of packaging. If you can see the hard disk with label then it is not a problem. Someone has to work awfully hard if you can see the merchandise in the box. The other option is special wrapping. It may cost a few nickels more, but if it means customers trust your product then you have to do it.
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It's not a bad idea, save the configuration part. How does the drive get an IP address? How does it resolve conflicts for addresses with other devices on the bus? You use ATA over ethernet. It is in the Linux kernel and it works. http://etherdrive.com/
The drives do not need IPs or configuration. You system sees them as block devices and it just works. Want to double bandwith, put more ethernet in or faster drives.
When I was looking to get TV a few months back without having to endure the local cable company hell a few months back I had a choice of either Dish or DirecTV. Turns out that Dish was much cheaper but their service is incompatiple with the tivos I have(2 at that point) because they change their channel codes and various things like that.
I like tivo. I have a myth box but I use my tivos due to the interface and I like to hack on them. By going with dish, I would have to give that up. That is why I do not feel bad for those customers. They contracted with a firm that thought they could lockout tivo and knew that they possibly infringed on tivo's patents. They assumed that at worst they would geta slap on the wrist. They were wrong.
Now Dish can either disable the DVRs or negotiate a settlement with tivo. I hope they write the check, as that seems to be what they should have done in the first place instead of putting out their own DVRs with some of the worst interfaces I have ever seen.
I will be sitting at home enjoying all 5 of my tivos next month. Will any of the Dish customers?
So this guy tries to install on 3 laptops: 1. He clobbered his driver partition during a clean install and then complained how he couldn't find drivers for all his hardware for the beta OS. 2. 2nd Laptop had hardware failure. 3. 3rd Laptop had hardware failure.
His Conclusion: Vista is not ready.
My Conclusion: Guy was not ready to do the review( a hard disk for laptop is $100. when mine failed last week I bought another one and had it installed in 25 min.) I also do not trust him with saying drivers were unavailable. He has not proven himself competent as a computer guy. Seems like another writer ignorant in the ways of computerdom.
Rasons for mac on laptop; 1. Always hibernates! Ask our friends if their laptop always transfers in/out of sleep state 2. Easy network config with OSX. Especially if you connect to multiple networks throughout the day with static/dhcp and wired/wireless configs. MS makes it hard. Linux requires a lot of scripts. As a bonus when you join your network it reconnects etworked apps(like ichat.) 3. Hibernate again. Try going to a store and shutting and popening the lid of a mac and a clone pc laptop. I reboot my laptop for updates. Otherwise it just hibernates.
Neo Geo --- Nice but this really was overpriced. 3D0 --- Anyone play this? Would not have wanted it for $15. Total Turd. Slow with crappy games. CD-i --- See above. The most $$$ console should not be the slowest or have the worst games. I remember playing the demo games at BB and I was never impressed.
Sega Saturn -- This was a nice platform but seemed to have only good fighting games on it. But it wasn't a uge leap forward and we knew that the consoles coming out soon after were going to be amazing. And they were!
People forget that when FX!32was released computers were much slower. I remember using NT on a state of the are alpha(200 mhz I think.) Had plenty of ram yet when running dos software it would crawl. Accessing the floppy in a dos shell mad you wish for an 8088.
in the last 15 years computers have gotten fast enough that even a 70% hit doesn't matter on most apps. It just matters that is works, reliably.
I see this switch being very successfull as people are moving to hardware that is fast enough to cover for any emulation. Most things are native and much faster and the remaining emulation makes the old apps barely slower than they were before. This is way different than spending 10 minutes to format a floppy on a state of the art machine.
btw. The machine flew with unix on it. Before DEC branded it ultrix.. what was its name?
People are forgetting that the problem with getting numbers to the stores usually is manufacturing problems with the CPU. As far as I know that is finalized. There might be some problems with Bluray but I bet you they can make lazers and so on already. Any contract manufacturer in the world can put a few million together in a short time.. esp if the logistics are taken care of.
I can see sony of shipping it worldwide. The europeans will buy it immidietly because they seem to all onw PS2s.
We are on our second revision and are very happy. For most users we have an email address they send tickets too. As we interact with the ticket they get updates via email. They can reply to this email and it gets added in with the ticket. Really accessible interface.
They also have an add on wiki available that is fairly usefull and integrated.
Just a note... this is based on mod_perl and may be ram intensive(512MB for us).
The config is also kinda wierd and tedious till you learn to orient yourself. Then you learn to appreciate the ability to restrict or grant access in a magnitude of ways. There has been nothing I havent been able to config with this packege... very happy here.
I like steam if only because when my apartment burned... I still had my valve games. When I reinstall... I can just log into steam and my games will download. At work... I can install whatever I want without lugging the disks in and risking their destruction.
Steam is good and will be better when friends start workign again. How hard can that be? It has been a long time since friends worked.
Statements from large Internet presences such as this one from Google, combined with competition in the ISP arena, will ensure that stupidity such as the tiered bandwidth model will never materialize. If BellSouth starts clamping down on bandwidth for content providers who won't pay, then their competitors just have to start running ads saying that they offer service that's just as fast, just as cheap, and that gives you the full power of their service no matter what website you visit or what service you use.
what competitors? I get crappy cablemodem service that is barely good enough in my part of town but that is not an option everywhere around here. Bellsouth can do what they want because it is them and cable. For people that do not have a home phone line, it is a minimum of $30 more for dsl... and then you either have BellSouth or are using their lines.
Where is the competition? The is none for a whole lot of us.
>>Read: Nowhere near the performance of ATI/NVIDIA.
For my money I do not need high framerates on all my boxes. My media player box and my browsing box need: stability, quality output and ok performance.
I would gladly trade most 3d for stability, less noise and HD output onto our 52inch sony. How fast does a card have to be to do mame and play movies. Any accelerated visualization is good, but I would gladly trade that for a lack of fan.
This already happened in the 50's right after the Soviets started launching rockets. I would suggest you check out "Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land."
In the movie Donald learns that not only is math usefull in everyday life, it can be fun as well. One of my all time favorites. Remember watching it in Calc class in high school as we were all fans of the movie.
>>If Hitler was a complete madman, you would think he would have used chemical weapons on the invading Russians. The 2 sides had basically brutalized each other, themselves and anyone who got in their way for 4 years... the only answer must be they lacked the means of delivery?
From my reading, it seems like Hitler was against chemical weapons used on the battlefield. He was a soldier durring WWI and he spent quite a while recovering from a gas attack.
It is quite a contradiction that a person like him would not gas enemy troops( even as times got desperate) but was willing to do everything else that came to mind.
Translation: Hard to make money off "Daily Routine". Addiction works much better.
Personally, I am dealing with my addiction to water, air and food. Thinking about it, I am addicted to work too. Seem to do it most days of the year. I guess I need professional help.
So Larry is trying to teach us FREE SOFTWARE guys a lesson. Great. In one swoop he has:
1. Shown us why "free as in beer" software is bad.
2. Forced us to focus on developing a FREE SOFTWARE competitor to his product.
Look for bitkeeper/linux to thrive now that a group of gifted developers is forced to come up with an alternative product. And dont forget about the coders that will contribute just because of the wy this went down. And I am sure that we will not work on a windows server/client.
Look for this lesson in bussiness books in 5 years as to how to guarantee your successfull company tanks.
(quote)I can't actually think of an mmog launch that has gone as amazingly badly as this, even SWG pulled thier shit together faster than this.(/quote)
That is BS. I was a beta tester for SWG and bought the game the first day it was available. Big mistake. It seemed like it would crash all the time and patches made things unstable and/or less fun.
For me, every WoW patch makes it more fun and generally makes stuff better. The only problem so far is the transfers. Bonechewer has become no fun since the influx of 50+. The economy and everything is fscked now that most of the players are so high.
>>>Piracy takes money away from people- it trickles down to the low end of the feeding chain a greater percentage of people don't work. That's reality in the film industry. It sucks, but it's reality.
This is a reason to keep the system. Prosecuting mafia figures puts people out of work yet we do that. Do you think in a market downturn the media companies will sacrifice profits for their workers? Hell no.
Money is only spent when it is available after skimming profits and such off the top. If you want to help actors... go to a theater. I refuse to spend $8 on a movie to help "the working people" whne I know that less than $1 will make it to them. Is my $8 helping the working man? probably. Is it helping as much as going to a semi-proffesional show? no.
I use a logitech bluetooth mouse with my powerbook and all the little buttons work out of the box. I find it easier to map mouse buttons and get it to do what I like than windows or linux.
Nice thing about a bluetooth mouse is: no dongle or cable. The range is also quite good.
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I understand that people like ubuntu but it is not really helping linux. I upgraded my box to 11.04 over the past two days from a much older release and around 10.04 got hit with a bug because grub was not updated. This was a well known bug that was spotted in testing and never got fixed. It is not the first time something like this has happened. Frequently updates will bork settings or a function like sound. It has gotten so bad that a non-profit I help out at will not run any updates unless I am there.
Usually a google search and some command line will fix things but this is not how you spread linux. The ubuntu community really needs to get better about making sure that updates/upgrades work. They continue to do good hard work and it is a shame that the work is undermined by stupid bugs that are known but never fixed.
if you have a problem with getting $600 together you are not running a datacenter. We ended up spending between 10 and 20k on a bunch of Mr. Slim units and have been happy.
You can try and be cheap but when you are talking computing you have to have at least 1k to spend on a problem at any point in time. if you can't, get a fruit stand and do that.
Are you serious? Can't beleive this made slashdot.
Try going to Europe. Last time I went to the CCC Congress in Berlin the uplink was 600 mbit. They usually put up signs on the second deay stating "use more bandwidth."
Usually crappy US show network. Go over to Europe where they know how to put on a show. Very few rules and even those are flexible.
Oh, and the number of machines stolen over the past 23 years can be counted on one hand.
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/attachments/652-slides_network_review.pdf
They should have quit years ago. They mainly had the bottom of the business and their chipsets just never quite worked right. From the first super-seven chipset of the pentium era that was almost as stable as intel to the athlon chipset I have that doesn't support PCI busmastering. Between the board makers and VIA you knew there was always going to be something wrong.
Now that there are cheap boards from other manufacturers that are stable and have good drivers they have no reason to be in that market.
Do not start the update procedure unless you do not need your machine for a while. On stage 2 of 3 on a fairly beefy box(5.1 vista experience) and it has been chugging for about 15 min and shows 2% done.
At least my mac is up.
The solution is a simple case of packaging. If you can see the hard disk with label then it is not a problem. Someone has to work awfully hard if you can see the merchandise in the box. The other option is special wrapping. It may cost a few nickels more, but if it means customers trust your product then you have to do it.
The drives do not need IPs or configuration. You system sees them as block devices and it just works. Want to double bandwith, put more ethernet in or faster drives.
When I was looking to get TV a few months back without having to endure the local cable company hell a few months back I had a choice of either Dish or DirecTV. Turns out that Dish was much cheaper but their service is incompatiple with the tivos I have(2 at that point) because they change their channel codes and various things like that.
I like tivo. I have a myth box but I use my tivos due to the interface and I like to hack on them. By going with dish, I would have to give that up. That is why I do not feel bad for those customers. They contracted with a firm that thought they could lockout tivo and knew that they possibly infringed on tivo's patents. They assumed that at worst they would geta slap on the wrist. They were wrong.
Now Dish can either disable the DVRs or negotiate a settlement with tivo. I hope they write the check, as that seems to be what they should have done in the first place instead of putting out their own DVRs with some of the worst interfaces I have ever seen.
I will be sitting at home enjoying all 5 of my tivos next month. Will any of the Dish customers?
I didn't know Dvorak got a side gig;)
So this guy tries to install on 3 laptops:
1. He clobbered his driver partition during a clean install and then complained how he couldn't find drivers for all his hardware for the beta OS.
2. 2nd Laptop had hardware failure.
3. 3rd Laptop had hardware failure.
His Conclusion:
Vista is not ready.
My Conclusion:
Guy was not ready to do the review( a hard disk for laptop is $100. when mine failed last week I bought another one and had it installed in 25 min.) I also do not trust him with saying drivers were unavailable. He has not proven himself competent as a computer guy. Seems like another writer ignorant in the ways of computerdom.
Get a MAC!
Rasons for mac on laptop;
1. Always hibernates! Ask our friends if their laptop always transfers in/out of sleep state
2. Easy network config with OSX. Especially if you connect to multiple networks throughout the day with static/dhcp and wired/wireless configs. MS makes it hard. Linux requires a lot of scripts. As a bonus when you join your network it reconnects etworked apps(like ichat.)
3. Hibernate again. Try going to a store and shutting and popening the lid of a mac and a clone pc laptop. I reboot my laptop for updates. Otherwise it just hibernates.
Neo Geo --- Nice but this really was overpriced.
3D0 --- Anyone play this? Would not have wanted it for $15. Total Turd. Slow with crappy games.
CD-i --- See above. The most $$$ console should not be the slowest or have the worst games. I remember playing the demo games at BB and I was never impressed.
Sega Saturn -- This was a nice platform but seemed to have only good fighting games on it. But it wasn't a uge leap forward and we knew that the consoles coming out soon after were going to be amazing. And they were!
People forget that when FX!32was released computers were much slower. I remember using NT on a state of the are alpha(200 mhz I think.) Had plenty of ram yet when running dos software it would crawl. Accessing the floppy in a dos shell mad you wish for an 8088.
in the last 15 years computers have gotten fast enough that even a 70% hit doesn't matter on most apps. It just matters that is works, reliably.
I see this switch being very successfull as people are moving to hardware that is fast enough to cover for any emulation. Most things are native and much faster and the remaining emulation makes the old apps barely slower than they were before. This is way different than spending 10 minutes to format a floppy on a state of the art machine.
btw. The machine flew with unix on it. Before DEC branded it ultrix.. what was its name?
People are forgetting that the problem with getting numbers to the stores usually is manufacturing problems with the CPU. As far as I know that is finalized. There might be some problems with Bluray but I bet you they can make lazers and so on already. Any contract manufacturer in the world can put a few million together in a short time.. esp if the logistics are taken care of.
I can see sony of shipping it worldwide. The europeans will buy it immidietly because they seem to all onw PS2s.
Try Request Tracker from www.bestpractical.com.
We are on our second revision and are very happy. For most users we have an email address they send tickets too. As we interact with the ticket they get updates via email. They can reply to this email and it gets added in with the ticket. Really accessible interface.
They also have an add on wiki available that is fairly usefull and integrated.
Just a note... this is based on mod_perl and may be ram intensive(512MB for us).
The config is also kinda wierd and tedious till you learn to orient yourself. Then you learn to appreciate the ability to restrict or grant access in a magnitude of ways. There has been nothing I havent been able to config with this packege... very happy here.
I like steam if only because when my apartment burned... I still had my valve games. When I reinstall... I can just log into steam and my games will download. At work... I can install whatever I want without lugging the disks in and risking their destruction.
Steam is good and will be better when friends start workign again. How hard can that be? It has been a long time since friends worked.
what competitors? I get crappy cablemodem service that is barely good enough in my part of town but that is not an option everywhere around here. Bellsouth can do what they want because it is them and cable. For people that do not have a home phone line, it is a minimum of $30 more for dsl... and then you either have BellSouth or are using their lines.
Where is the competition? The is none for a whole lot of us.
Now we will all have to guard our human horns even more. Fist the alians and now this.
>>Read: Nowhere near the performance of ATI/NVIDIA.
For my money I do not need high framerates on all my boxes. My media player box and my browsing box need: stability, quality output and ok performance.
I would gladly trade most 3d for stability, less noise and HD output onto our 52inch sony. How fast does a card have to be to do mame and play movies. Any accelerated visualization is good, but I would gladly trade that for a lack of fan.
This already happened in the 50's right after the Soviets started launching rockets. I would suggest you check out "Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land."
In the movie Donald learns that not only is math usefull in everyday life, it can be fun as well. One of my all time favorites. Remember watching it in Calc class in high school as we were all fans of the movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052751/
>>If Hitler was a complete madman, you would think he would have used chemical weapons on the invading Russians. The 2 sides had basically brutalized each other, themselves and anyone who got in their way for 4 years... the only answer must be they lacked the means of delivery?
From my reading, it seems like Hitler was against chemical weapons used on the battlefield. He was a soldier durring WWI and he spent quite a while recovering from a gas attack.
It is quite a contradiction that a person like him would not gas enemy troops( even as times got desperate) but was willing to do everything else that came to mind.
>>"Daily Routine" is hardly a good buzzword..
Translation: Hard to make money off "Daily Routine". Addiction works much better.
Personally, I am dealing with my addiction to water, air and food. Thinking about it, I am addicted to work too. Seem to do it most days of the year. I guess I need professional help.
So Larry is trying to teach us FREE SOFTWARE guys a lesson. Great. In one swoop he has:
1. Shown us why "free as in beer" software is bad.
2. Forced us to focus on developing a FREE SOFTWARE competitor to his product.
Look for bitkeeper/linux to thrive now that a group of gifted developers is forced to come up with an alternative product. And dont forget about the coders that will contribute just because of the wy this went down. And I am sure that we will not work on a windows server/client.
Look for this lesson in bussiness books in 5 years as to how to guarantee your successfull company tanks.
(quote)I can't actually think of an mmog launch that has gone as amazingly badly as this, even SWG pulled thier shit together faster than this.(/quote)
That is BS. I was a beta tester for SWG and bought the game the first day it was available. Big mistake. It seemed like it would crash all the time and patches made things unstable and/or less fun.
For me, every WoW patch makes it more fun and generally makes stuff better. The only problem so far is the transfers. Bonechewer has become no fun since the influx of 50+. The economy and everything is fscked now that most of the players are so high.
>>>Piracy takes money away from people- it trickles down to the low end of the feeding chain a greater percentage of people don't work. That's reality in the film industry. It sucks, but it's reality.
This is a reason to keep the system. Prosecuting mafia figures puts people out of work yet we do that. Do you think in a market downturn the media companies will sacrifice profits for their workers? Hell no.
Money is only spent when it is available after skimming profits and such off the top. If you want to help actors... go to a theater. I refuse to spend $8 on a movie to help "the working people" whne I know that less than $1 will make it to them. Is my $8 helping the working man? probably. Is it helping as much as going to a semi-proffesional show? no.
I use a logitech bluetooth mouse with my powerbook and all the little buttons work out of the box. I find it easier to map mouse buttons and get it to do what I like than windows or linux.
Nice thing about a bluetooth mouse is: no dongle or cable. The range is also quite good.