Actually, a Windows webserver does not necessarily mean IIS. A lot of the systems surveyed were probably Windows systems running apache. Most sensible people know better than to run IIS. But not all those people are ready to run a Unix or Unix-like system.
If HP-UX goes away I won't miss it. I work with HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, Solaris, and Linux machines all day, and HP-UX is in a dead heat with AIX for my least favorite. In answer to those that say "see, Unix is dying, look at HP-UX!" I point out that many Unix people don't like HP-UX and use Solaris or Linux or FreeBSD when they can get away with it. I really don't understand why people could prefer HP-UX, AIX, or IRIX if given a choice. I only have grown to accept Solaris more because they seem to be moving to having GNU versions of the standard tools available on install. The GNU fileutils and bash are two of the best things about Linux distros, aside from TCO and hardware support that is..
You need to keep in mind the target audience. With a big SMP motherboard, it is really geared for serving. Servers are often Rackmounts, the Fewer Us the better. With a motherboard like this, a decent 1U system can be built. At the very least most servers could care less about your video card and such, even if in a Desktop system. Heck, Sun's Netra rackmount systems don't usually have a video card ta all. If the PC world didn't care about graphics so much, then you could leave the onboard video out. When I build a home system, I avoid built-ins like the plague, I have room to spare to get the better stuff put in. But the typical home user will get by fine with uni-processor configuration...
Of course, at the current state of developer it wouldn't be a very good mp3 player, seeing as how it lacks support for the audio device...
But once they do, it will be cool. I wonder if avifile, smpeg, and/or mplayer would work on this thing. Avi support would be rather crippled, but this would be a good, cheap set-top box... I wonder how fast the dreamcast is in a practical sense. At 200 MHz with an unaccelerated framebuffer, I imagine it is quite painful...
When I need to go to a movie theater or to a fast food restaurant, and in amusment parks and the like. On one hand it is very convenient, but on the other, if you have a check card or credit card, a lot more is at stake if it gets stolen. I like the ATM/Debit approach, you need a pin to make purchases. It's practially useless though, for most places that would just take Check Card or credit card, and of course there is no secure way to do this sort of thing on line. I have been wondering for a while how the problem of on-line shopping security could be handled. Throw away numbers used for one purchase only each comes to mind. Anyone have experience with this?
In the wake of the terrorist attack, the US is making all sorts of bad moves. Well, bad to the people at least. For one, this whole encryption deal. People coming forth and saying encryption let this happen, encryption is bad! When all evidence points to the fact that all electronic communication was done unencrypted. One of the biggest complaints about bin Laden is that he didn't use technology enough to be tracked easily.
The government has been itching a long time to do this, and now they can use the misinformation of the common folk to make anyone who stands with encryption a villian and an accomplice to the terrorists.
Another thing I am not so sure about is the US approach to the Taliban. We are telling them to hand over bin Laden or we will destroy them, completely ignoring their reasonable call for proof. Right now, even though there is a lot of evidence against bin LAden, it is all circumstantial, and in a smaller case it would just be dismissed without further concrete evidence. The US is out for blood. This isn't a quest for Justice yet, it is one of blind vengeance. Once we had proof, then the vengeance would be justice.
That said, something should have been done about bin Laden long ago. If we were able to definitely connect him to the older trade center bombing, two US embassy bombings, and the bombing of a US Destroyer, why only now do we really get forceful? Any one of those former actions could be construed as an act of war, and if we had been more forceful at the time, we might just have prevented the WTC tragedy. But I guess the people who lost their lives then just weren't important enough to the American people to warrant justice..
In any event, I do think we need to get bin Laden, we cannot rightfully do it under the public pretense of justice for the WTC, but rather the more sensible pretense of trying to end terrorism, or even one of his numerous other crimes. The Taliban response may always be the same, but at least the US wouldn't look as bad when they do lower the boom.
Have you tried a vbox time limited demo? As of late companies are getting much more sophisticated at defeating this technique. While not perfect, they can seriously screw things up when you try everything you can think of to fool the system. Quite amazing.
Maybe if comparing to I.E. in windows, but in Linux, it is important to note this. Maybe it would be fairer to include in-environment numbers, but that stacks the deck in favor of Konq too much. One of the huge objections I have to most KDE apps is that they require so many support processes to be running for even the most simple tasks, while Gnome apps could care less whether or not the "Gnome environment" is running. Konq and KDE are very good things, but the way the environment dependencies work is just insane..
Sure, this may provide a lot of convenience, but I've noticed as of late a few things setting and following dangerous precedents. For one, playback of avi, asf, and wmv files. Many of these nowadays use codecs for audio or sound that have no native implementation. Projects like avifile and mplayer work around this by using the win32 files. This provides really nice functionality, but discourages many who would work on native solutions, as this solution seems 'good enough'. Of course this means that non-x86 systems are completely out of luck, and that even while in linux we can still be tied to Microsoft binaries....
I think the same can apply to ActiveX through wine, and to some extent wine in general. So far it hasn't worked well enough to make people see it as a 'good enough' solution, but as it gets more complete, developers are going to get lazier about implementing native equivalents, as has happened with those multimedia codecs..
These ads are just another reason why I like the tabbed interface of galeon and skipstone. The ads do not intrude by popping up over your current page. Also, pop-under ads become obvious immediately, and you can close a tab without even looking at it, if you know you don't want to see an unsolicited popup, while still allowing pop-ups, though I have never seen a solicited pop-up, but they must exist somewhere:)
If you have a sufficiently good machine, you may want to look into
WeirdX
or WiredX.
Both are Java X servers, and at least WeirdX
ran surprisingly well for me. WeirdX is GPLed.
I used to administer a network of Sun workstations. We had a Sparc 1+ (the speed demon of the group, but no graphics card, only serial for a VT220) a Sparc 1, and several Sun4 and Sun3 systems. Only the Sparcs and 5 of the Sun4s
had hard drives, the rest did all filesystem
stuff through nfs. The main problem was that the Sun3 computers run m68k processors and therefore would have required an entirely seperate set of applications to run them standalone. That, and the fact that the Sun3s only had 8 MB ram, where we were able to deck out the Sun4s with at least 32 MB and the Sparcs with 16MB. So the Sun3s were X-terminals of Sun4s. Of course our Sun3s only had black and white graphics, but better than not having anything. No one could tell that it was an X-terminal, everything was already so slow:) Those were the days...
One thing about both the Gnome and KDE projects is that they do not do things the simple way. I click on a file in either one (konqueror, nautilus, or gmc) and I have to wait forever before I get to see the simple contents of the directory. Admittedly, there is a lot more to Gnome and KDE than the file managers, but this is just a simple example. The libraries and embedding may be useful, but when I do graphics, I have always steered clear of Gnome/KDE and stuck with the basic GTK/QT. After all, who needs all that fluff?
Also, with KDE, if you are not running KDE and you start even the most simple KDE app, it has to start up a hoarde of KDE helper applications, starting nearly all of KDE, just so I can edit a plaintext file. This seems too ridiculous.
As a programmer, I stick to more basic toolkits.
As a user, I use something like WindowMaker or
BlackBox and ROX. I think ROX is great, fast, responsive, gives me all I would want out of a "desktop environment" without the crap I don't need. And as a sidenote, strict application directories, imho, are great. I really think this project deserves a lot more attention for this. After giving it a chance, it managed to actually impress me, which is more than I can say for any other program in a long long time.
To be fair, they aren't really "killing" mp3 in the new os, so much as not adding mp3 encoding. MP3 decoding wills till work great, but it will ship with a new media encoder that just doesn't contain a high quality MP3 encoder. So even then you can still view your file library and download a good MP3 encoding program if you ran windows. (Right now you pretty much have to download an encoding program anyway, so it won't make things harder, just make it easier for the unwashed to use the WMA format). Of course this smart tags stuff, along with so much other stuff is just BS. XP is just Microsoft's response to everything else being themeable and trying to fix the home series by migrating to NT style. I wonder if they'll actually do that this time. Ever since NT-4 they've been saying the next release of the home line will be based on NT. Maybe they think how nice it would be, and then figure out that there wouldn't be enough of a difference between the home and professional edition to warrant a lot of people to pay the extra cash.
It takes a lot of effort to securely erase the data on a hard drive. The ideal is to use encrypted FS from the beginning and then do multiple overwrites with random data to create a lot of noise, and even then recovery may be possible.
My question is, how old are these systems being retired? If they are relatively old, then the hard drive is probably very low capacity by todays standards and cannot be considered too reliable.
With a low-capacity hard drive, would it be cheaper to just ditch the hard drive entirely, using a destructive secure erasure method and spend the moeny that would have been to pay for staff to erase the disk without destroying it to instead buy a new small hard drive?
Not quite, mtrr by itself doesn't compare to the boost provided by the DRI for 3D and the XVideo extension for 2D. The XVideo extension will blow you away for multimedia if your card supports it, which quite a few do now.
Depends on your Video Card really.
If your chipset it one of the following, I
hear there is XVideo support:
Intel i810/i815
Matrox Gx00
Voodoo Banshee/3/4/5
ATI Mach64/Rage128/Radeon
S3 Savage
Anything by nVidia
More information about getting XVideo to work in the context of video playback can be found
here,
in Xtheater's user guide for CVS. The CVS version works quite well with nice fullscreening of AVI/ASF/MPG/VCD stuff, using XVideo to scale to your display size if you set the options... Of course, I may be just a little biased:) MPlayer is pretty good too, if you don't care about a GUI.
Re:Xvideo Stuff now working with tdfx ?
on
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I dunnot about 4.1.0, but DRI 0.7 has supported my Voodoo3 2000 AGP much better with XVideo, i.e. my
xawtv (bttv driver) works as well as all sortsof media players that had problems before.
I actually havea the Beta 2 version of XP, it isn't too bad from a consumer viewpoint. It may overall be bad for the computer software industry. However one thing that I see as a possible bonus for those of us who prefer Linux. Vendors that may be displaced by this move, they may be more tempted to produce linux products whre MS is not currently producing competing products. Of course, the only really interesting windows-only software out there are games.
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Actually, a Windows webserver does not necessarily mean IIS. A lot of the systems surveyed were probably Windows systems running apache. Most sensible people know better than to run IIS. But not all those people are ready to run a Unix or Unix-like system.
If HP-UX goes away I won't miss it. I work with HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, Solaris, and Linux machines all day, and HP-UX is in a dead heat with AIX for my least favorite. In answer to those that say "see, Unix is dying, look at HP-UX!" I point out that many Unix people don't like HP-UX and use Solaris or Linux or FreeBSD when they can get away with it. I really don't understand why people could prefer HP-UX, AIX, or IRIX if given a choice. I only have grown to accept Solaris more because they seem to be moving to having GNU versions of the standard tools available on install. The GNU fileutils and bash are two of the best things about Linux distros, aside from TCO and hardware support that is..
You need to keep in mind the target audience. With a big SMP motherboard, it is really geared for serving. Servers are often Rackmounts, the Fewer Us the better. With a motherboard like this, a decent 1U system can be built. At the very least most servers could care less about your video card and such, even if in a Desktop system. Heck, Sun's Netra rackmount systems don't usually have a video card ta all. If the PC world didn't care about graphics so much, then you could leave the onboard video out. When I build a home system, I avoid built-ins like the plague, I have room to spare to get the better stuff put in. But the typical home user will get by fine with uni-processor configuration...
Of course, at the current state of developer it wouldn't be a very good mp3 player, seeing as how it lacks support for the audio device...
But once they do, it will be cool. I wonder if avifile, smpeg, and/or mplayer would work on this thing. Avi support would be rather crippled, but this would be a good, cheap set-top box... I wonder how fast the dreamcast is in a practical sense. At 200 MHz with an unaccelerated framebuffer, I imagine it is quite painful...
Actually, the BBA is quite supported, and the article says as much.
When I need to go to a movie theater or to a fast food restaurant, and in amusment parks and the like. On one hand it is very convenient, but on the other, if you have a check card or credit card, a lot more is at stake if it gets stolen. I like the ATM/Debit approach, you need a pin to make purchases. It's practially useless though, for most places that would just take Check Card or credit card, and of course there is no secure way to do this sort of thing on line. I have been wondering for a while how the problem of on-line shopping security could be handled. Throw away numbers used for one purchase only each comes to mind. Anyone have experience with this?
In the wake of the terrorist attack, the US is making all sorts of bad moves. Well, bad to the people at least. For one, this whole encryption deal. People coming forth and saying encryption let this happen, encryption is bad! When all evidence points to the fact that all electronic communication was done unencrypted. One of the biggest complaints about bin Laden is that he didn't use technology enough to be tracked easily.
The government has been itching a long time to do this, and now they can use the misinformation of the common folk to make anyone who stands with encryption a villian and an accomplice to the terrorists.
Another thing I am not so sure about is the US approach to the Taliban. We are telling them to hand over bin Laden or we will destroy them, completely ignoring their reasonable call for proof. Right now, even though there is a lot of evidence against bin LAden, it is all circumstantial, and in a smaller case it would just be dismissed without further concrete evidence. The US is out for blood. This isn't a quest for Justice yet, it is one of blind vengeance. Once we had proof, then the vengeance would be justice.
That said, something should have been done about bin Laden long ago. If we were able to definitely connect him to the older trade center bombing, two US embassy bombings, and the bombing of a US Destroyer, why only now do we really get forceful? Any one of those former actions could be construed as an act of war, and if we had been more forceful at the time, we might just have prevented the WTC tragedy. But I guess the people who lost their lives then just weren't important enough to the American people to warrant justice..
In any event, I do think we need to get bin Laden, we cannot rightfully do it under the public pretense of justice for the WTC, but rather the more sensible pretense of trying to end terrorism, or even one of his numerous other crimes. The Taliban response may always be the same, but at least the US wouldn't look as bad when they do lower the boom.
When are they going to do their interpretation of nethack? I want to see my ascii characters in full 3d rendered action!
Have you tried a vbox time limited demo? As of late companies are getting much more sophisticated at defeating this technique. While not perfect, they can seriously screw things up when you try everything you can think of to fool the system. Quite amazing.
Maybe if comparing to I.E. in windows, but in Linux, it is important to note this. Maybe it would be fairer to include in-environment numbers, but that stacks the deck in favor of Konq too much. One of the huge objections I have to most KDE apps is that they require so many support processes to be running for even the most simple tasks, while Gnome apps could care less whether or not the "Gnome environment" is running. Konq and KDE are very good things, but the way the environment dependencies work is just insane..
That is far from a contradiction, considering that Java and Javascript are two entirely different beasts...
So you watched it in fast forward or something? (noting that film standard is 24 fps in theaters)
Sure, this may provide a lot of convenience, but I've noticed as of late a few things setting and following dangerous precedents. For one, playback of avi, asf, and wmv files. Many of these nowadays use codecs for audio or sound that have no native implementation. Projects like avifile and mplayer work around this by using the win32 files. This provides really nice functionality, but discourages many who would work on native solutions, as this solution seems 'good enough'. Of course this means that non-x86 systems are completely out of luck, and that even while in linux we can still be tied to Microsoft binaries....
I think the same can apply to ActiveX through wine, and to some extent wine in general. So far it hasn't worked well enough to make people see it as a 'good enough' solution, but as it gets more complete, developers are going to get lazier about implementing native equivalents, as has happened with those multimedia codecs..
These ads are just another reason why I like the tabbed interface of galeon and skipstone. The ads do not intrude by popping up over your current page. Also, pop-under ads become obvious immediately, and you can close a tab without even looking at it, if you know you don't want to see an unsolicited popup, while still allowing pop-ups, though I have never seen a solicited pop-up, but they must exist somewhere :)
Galeon has a "crash recovery feature" that remembers openw indows.. so far they don't save histories, but they'll probably do it eventually.
If you have a sufficiently good machine, you may want to look into WeirdX or WiredX. Both are Java X servers, and at least WeirdX ran surprisingly well for me. WeirdX is GPLed.
I used to administer a network of Sun workstations. We had a Sparc 1+ (the speed demon of the group, but no graphics card, only serial for a VT220) a Sparc 1, and several Sun4 and Sun3 systems. Only the Sparcs and 5 of the Sun4s :) Those were the days...
had hard drives, the rest did all filesystem
stuff through nfs. The main problem was that the Sun3 computers run m68k processors and therefore would have required an entirely seperate set of applications to run them standalone. That, and the fact that the Sun3s only had 8 MB ram, where we were able to deck out the Sun4s with at least 32 MB and the Sparcs with 16MB. So the Sun3s were X-terminals of Sun4s. Of course our Sun3s only had black and white graphics, but better than not having anything. No one could tell that it was an X-terminal, everything was already so slow
One thing about both the Gnome and KDE projects is that they do not do things the simple way. I click on a file in either one (konqueror, nautilus, or gmc) and I have to wait forever before I get to see the simple contents of the directory. Admittedly, there is a lot more to Gnome and KDE than the file managers, but this is just a simple example. The libraries and embedding may be useful, but when I do graphics, I have always steered clear of Gnome/KDE and stuck with the basic GTK/QT. After all, who needs all that fluff?
Also, with KDE, if you are not running KDE and you start even the most simple KDE app, it has to start up a hoarde of KDE helper applications, starting nearly all of KDE, just so I can edit a plaintext file. This seems too ridiculous.
As a programmer, I stick to more basic toolkits. As a user, I use something like WindowMaker or BlackBox and ROX. I think ROX is great, fast, responsive, gives me all I would want out of a "desktop environment" without the crap I don't need. And as a sidenote, strict application directories, imho, are great. I really think this project deserves a lot more attention for this. After giving it a chance, it managed to actually impress me, which is more than I can say for any other program in a long long time.
To be fair, they aren't really "killing" mp3 in the new os, so much as not adding mp3 encoding. MP3 decoding wills till work great, but it will ship with a new media encoder that just doesn't contain a high quality MP3 encoder. So even then you can still view your file library and download a good MP3 encoding program if you ran windows. (Right now you pretty much have to download an encoding program anyway, so it won't make things harder, just make it easier for the unwashed to use the WMA format). Of course this smart tags stuff, along with so much other stuff is just BS. XP is just Microsoft's response to everything else being themeable and trying to fix the home series by migrating to NT style. I wonder if they'll actually do that this time. Ever since NT-4 they've been saying the next release of the home line will be based on NT. Maybe they think how nice it would be, and then figure out that there wouldn't be enough of a difference between the home and professional edition to warrant a lot of people to pay the extra cash.
It takes a lot of effort to securely erase the data on a hard drive. The ideal is to use encrypted FS from the beginning and then do multiple overwrites with random data to create a lot of noise, and even then recovery may be possible.
My question is, how old are these systems being retired? If they are relatively old, then the hard drive is probably very low capacity by todays standards and cannot be considered too reliable.
With a low-capacity hard drive, would it be cheaper to just ditch the hard drive entirely, using a destructive secure erasure method and spend the moeny that would have been to pay for staff to erase the disk without destroying it to instead buy a new small hard drive?
Not quite, mtrr by itself doesn't compare to the boost provided by the DRI for 3D and the XVideo extension for 2D. The XVideo extension will blow you away for multimedia if your card supports it, which quite a few do now.
- Intel i810/i815
- Matrox Gx00
- Voodoo Banshee/3/4/5
- ATI Mach64/Rage128/Radeon
- S3 Savage
- Anything by nVidia
More information about getting XVideo to work in the context of video playback can be found here, in Xtheater's user guide for CVS. The CVS version works quite well with nice fullscreening of AVI/ASF/MPG/VCD stuff, using XVideo to scale to your display size if you set the options... Of course, I may be just a little biasedI dunnot about 4.1.0, but DRI 0.7 has supported my Voodoo3 2000 AGP much better with XVideo, i.e. my
xawtv (bttv driver) works as well as all sortsof media players that had problems before.
I actually havea the Beta 2 version of XP, it isn't too bad from a consumer viewpoint. It may overall be bad for the computer software industry. However one thing that I see as a possible bonus for those of us who prefer Linux. Vendors that may be displaced by this move, they may be more tempted to produce linux products whre MS is not currently producing competing products. Of course, the only really interesting windows-only software out there are games.
Don't you realize, though, that roadrunner is owned by aol now?