They tried that twice already, with tanks. It was called WW1 and WW2. Now they are doing it with economics. This time it is called the EU
They learned a lesson from the USA who could not beat the Russians with weapons, but managed to do it on the economics battlefield.
The USAns learned it from the Japanese, who thoroughly spanked them after WW2, but then the USAns learned the trick too, and returned the favor to Japan.
Now it is going around full circle, and the Chinese are doing it to the west in general.
I see that IBM just sold out on PC and notebook business to Legend.. Not to mention China cornering the market on metals in the past year.
As a Canadian, I can say: Don't be an ignorant American.
Problem is that your country never did comeup with a usable nickname, except perhaps "Yankees" "United States Citizen" just does not roll off the tongue so well.
Seriously, think about it. Should the Germans call themselves Europeans, it is taken as meaning, Germany, a part of Europe.
In the Americas, we are Argentinians, Brazilians, Chileans, Mexicans, Canadians, etc.
Apparently the people of the USA never managed to figure out a name that anyone could agree to use!
Personally, I vote for the term "Usans" Or maybe "Users";>}
We have had these in Canada for a few months now. My wife and I went to the local Mercedes dealer ( the brand is made in France, but owned by Mercedes) While a nice car, the price tag is ludicrous! With a decent configuration it is $19,000 Canadian. http://www.mercedes-benz.ca/mbccustom/s mart/getsma rt/pricing.cfm
For you Yanks that is about $16,150 US.
For a LOT less money one can get a LOT more car! For example a KIA RIO lists for $12,995 ($11,050 in devaluing US$) And comes with a full 5 year warranty. http://www.kia.ca/img/en/showroom/offer s.pdf
We bought a KIA RIO RX-V for my daughters' grad last year, and it has run flawlessly.
DLink part # DSM-320 http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=318
It is both 802.11G ( with ExtremeG 108Mbps) and 100T ethernet connections.
Does about any kind of media you would want ( even supports Ogg with current firmware updates!) Inexpensive ( SRP only $199) and it is even rackmountable, using standard 17" wide form factor, and 1U height.
For those who want to hack on it, there is a wiki page at: http://www.biermana.org/wiki/index.php/Hackin g%20t he%20D-Link%20DSM-320
Oh, and it seems to be an embedded Linux device. Redsonic did the embedded OS.
Software RAID usually outperforms most hardware RAID controllers by a factor of 2 or 3 to one in RAID5. Software RAID allows a lot more options and choices. And the big one: Software RAID allows one to use a common metadata structure that is not proprietary. So one may build a RAID set on one controller, and easily move it to a different one.
They took a formally outstanding show and turned it into a place for deep pockets only. AND made it pretty well a "Retail" show.
Are big trade shows dead? Heck no.
Computex (May31 - June 4 in Taipei, Taiwan) this year had over 1,000 vendors showing, took over 4 big conference spaces in downtown Taipei surrounding the new 101 centre ( tallest building in the world) and over 100,000 registered attendees. http://www.taipeitradeshows.com.tw/com putex/fact_s heet.htm There are four good reasons COMDEX is dead: 1) Ziff Davis made it too expensive, too difficult for smaller vendors/manufacturers. You do not go to a show like this to see what HP, Seagate, IBM and Microsoft are doing. They spend vast sums to tell you that in other media.
2) People from outside N. America do not want to travel to the USA.
3) US unions. To be a vendor at COMDEX cost about $5,000 for a booth space. And over $10,000 to get your goods in and out by the "show services" monopoly.
4) It became a "retail" show. You do not spend good money to display at a trade show to meet 10,000 end user "tire kickers". You are looking for quality commercial leads. Qualified buyers.
While it may be poor practice to announce holes publically, it matters little whether or not exploits exist.
It also is irrelevant if there is a patch for it.
At some point any sane person would evaluate if there is ANY case to be made for running Internet Explorer.
Give the track record it is irrelevant if any single exploit or bug is handled properly.
If it is not this bug that gets you , sooner or later it will be SOME BUG.
Anyone still allowing IE to be on a system is essentially in a position that they WILL be exploited, sooner or later.
We waste our time and efforts discussing these fine points.
What we need to be doing is ensuring that people realize that IE is not a sane choice for ANY user.
If that means they have to get rooted before they accept this, so be it.
They WILL get rooted eventually, so why not sooner than later?
No amount of patches can prevent that simple fact.
If you own a worn out car, fixing broken components does not make the car more reliable. If you have to take a long trip, you need a reliable car. In this case a new car is FREE, so why waste resources trying to fix the broken one?
I could have bought an unlocked phone, but NOT in N.America. And Motorola told me (I checked) that if I bought my phone from overseas they would not provide warranty. Catch-22
Anyway, Motorola can bugger off. I like my Sony Ericsson a lot better. The Motorola had other issues as well.
This summer I bought an unlocked Sony Ericsson in Singapore. Totally unlocked. Cost me about $200 Canadian. Well worth the price.
They "sell" a slightly different lesser model over here for around $300+
Plus, it is a model not offered in N.America. Makes no sense that they do not offer it, other than the fact that with these monopolies it is yet another case of how our choices are being limited.
I will NEVER buy a cell phone from the local monopolies in N. America ever again.
At some point I hope they legislate to prevent the mobile carriers from crippling the phones they sell. When GSM first got going in N.America I bought a Motorola triband GSM phone ( 900,1800,1900 frequencies) from a Circuit City in Minnesota. It was sold with a VoiceStream activation package. Of course, when I took it home to Canada I found it was "SIMM locked" to only work with VoiceStream! After some longish and not amusing phone conversations with VoiceStream I managed to get it unlocked by reminding them that they do not have service here in Canada. Then I took it with me this summer to Malaysia and Singapore. That is when I found it was also crippled. The only frequency it would work on was the N.American 1900 band. When I got back I contacted VoiceStream and Motorola to ask what it would take to restore the phone to allow it so work with the frequencies it was advertised as being capable of. The response was that as VoiceStream ordered these with only 1900 capability the rest was "turned off" in the ROM version shipped to VoiceStream. "Can they "repair" it?" "No." I will pay ( even though I should not have to) "No" Can I return it? "No"
Roughly 50% of of the servers we build at present have over 1TB of storage. Roughly 30% have over 2TB.
With a 3Ware 7500-12 IDE RAID card and 11x200GB disks we hit 2.1TB.
This costs about $6,000 in a server, so is a fairly popular option.
Next month Maxtor ships their 300GB drives (MAYBE, Maxtor have been lying about their release schedules lately). Once that happens, it will be a very common problem.
Yes Please! Up here in Canada we will not get to see those ads. I pay extra on cable to get US network coverage, and the cable compnay (Shaw) take it and dub the ads with Canadian ones. Double-dipping pigs!
A much bigger problem is that Linux filesystems have a capacity limit of 2TB. Many servers now have the physical capacity of over 2TB on a filesystem storage device. Unfortunately this is still a very significant limitation. This problem is much more commonly encountered than file size limitations.
Why is XM a good thing? Two words: Canadian Content. Imagine you lived in a fairly large US state, let's say California. Imagine ( if you can) that the state government ruled that of the music and other content on all the stations, at least 40% of it must be by California artists, and published by California companies. Up here north of the 49th, we NEED XM!
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This report seems to have exactly the result that IDC and M$ wanted.
A bunch of Linux people saying "Where's my piece of the action?"
Where on earth do they come up with this rubbish?
If one wanted to write something to stir up dissent in the Linux commumity, this is a blueprint for the method.
They tried that twice already, with tanks.
It was called WW1 and WW2.
Now they are doing it with economics.
This time it is called the EU
They learned a lesson from the USA who could not beat the Russians with weapons, but managed to do it on the economics battlefield.
The USAns learned it from the Japanese, who thoroughly spanked them after WW2, but then the USAns learned the trick too, and returned the favor to Japan.
Now it is going around full circle, and the Chinese are doing it to the west in general.
I see that IBM just sold out on PC and notebook business to Legend..
Not to mention China cornering the market on metals in the past year.
See?
The rest of us in America happen to disagree.
;>}
As a Canadian, I can say:
Don't be an ignorant American.
Problem is that your country never did comeup with a usable nickname, except perhaps "Yankees"
"United States Citizen" just does not roll off the tongue so well.
Seriously, think about it.
Should the Germans call themselves Europeans, it is taken as meaning, Germany, a part of Europe.
In the Americas, we are Argentinians, Brazilians, Chileans, Mexicans, Canadians, etc.
Apparently the people of the USA never managed to figure out a name that anyone could agree to use!
Personally, I vote for the term "Usans"
Or maybe "Users"
Lasersoft Imaging AG's Silverfast is probably the most significant player in imaging software for PC's
http://www.silverfast.com/highlights/en.html
All they offer at this point is stuff for Windows and Mac.
I spoke with their N. American people asking about Linux support, and they said there had been few requests for Linux versions.
I asked where one should enquire, and they suggested that email request should be sent to:
info@silverfast.de
We have had these in Canada for a few months now.s mart/getsma rt/pricing.cfm
r s.pdf
My wife and I went to the local Mercedes dealer ( the brand is made in France, but owned by Mercedes)
While a nice car, the price tag is ludicrous!
With a decent configuration it is $19,000 Canadian.
http://www.mercedes-benz.ca/mbccustom/
For you Yanks that is about $16,150 US.
For a LOT less money one can get a LOT more car!
For example a KIA RIO lists for $12,995 ($11,050 in devaluing US$) And comes with a full 5 year warranty.
http://www.kia.ca/img/en/showroom/offe
We bought a KIA RIO RX-V for my daughters' grad last year, and it has run flawlessly.
They have GOT to be kidding!
Talk to a good accountant.
The Mozilla.org Firefox forums are not very effective.
I recently did a conversion on a few machines from Eudora to Thunderbird.
While there is a Eudora importer, it does not properly process HTML email fom Eudora, leaving it in a rather messed up state.
I posted on the forums, and after a day had no useful answers.
After more digging it seems that this problem has existed for a longtime in Thunderbird.
There are even several pre-processing scripts that people have written for this.
But, it took an hour of digging over old postings on those forums to find this out.
Not ONE PERSON replying to my post requesting help posted anything useful about it.
Don't get me wrong, I still think that Firefox and TBird are excellent apps, but the forums as a support mechanism is pretty weak.
DLink part # DSM-320
n g%20t he%20D-Link%20DSM-320
http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=318
It is both 802.11G ( with ExtremeG 108Mbps) and 100T ethernet connections.
Does about any kind of media you would want ( even supports Ogg with current firmware updates!)
Inexpensive ( SRP only $199) and it is even rackmountable, using standard 17" wide form factor, and 1U height.
For those who want to hack on it, there is a wiki page at:
http://www.biermana.org/wiki/index.php/Hacki
Oh, and it seems to be an embedded Linux device.
Redsonic did the embedded OS.
Works for me!
Who would be dumb enough to buy this?
Oh, wait, over half of you voted for Bush?
Never mind..
Software RAID usually outperforms most hardware RAID controllers by a factor of 2 or 3 to one in RAID5.
Software RAID allows a lot more options and choices.
And the big one:
Software RAID allows one to use a common metadata structure that is not proprietary.
So one may build a RAID set on one controller, and easily move it to a different one.
They took a formally outstanding show and turned it into a place for deep pockets only.
m putex/fact_s heet.htm
AND made it pretty well a "Retail" show.
Are big trade shows dead?
Heck no.
Computex (May31 - June 4 in Taipei, Taiwan) this year had over 1,000 vendors showing, took over 4 big conference spaces in downtown Taipei surrounding the new 101 centre ( tallest building in the world) and over 100,000 registered attendees.
http://www.taipeitradeshows.com.tw/co
There are four good reasons COMDEX is dead:
1) Ziff Davis made it too expensive, too difficult for smaller vendors/manufacturers.
You do not go to a show like this to see what HP, Seagate, IBM and Microsoft are doing. They spend vast sums to tell you that in other media.
2) People from outside N. America do not want to travel to the USA.
3) US unions. To be a vendor at COMDEX cost about $5,000 for a booth space. And over $10,000 to get your goods in and out by the "show services" monopoly.
4) It became a "retail" show. You do not spend good money to display at a trade show to meet 10,000 end user "tire kickers".
You are looking for quality commercial leads. Qualified buyers.
I note that this story was posted over 2 hours after I posted the EXACT SAME STORY.
Interesting how this seems to work on Slashdot.
While it may be poor practice to announce holes publically, it matters little whether or not exploits exist.
It also is irrelevant if there is a patch for it.
At some point any sane person would evaluate if there is ANY case to be made for running Internet Explorer.
Give the track record it is irrelevant if any single exploit or bug is handled properly.
If it is not this bug that gets you , sooner or later it will be SOME BUG.
Anyone still allowing IE to be on a system is essentially in a position that they WILL be exploited, sooner or later.
We waste our time and efforts discussing these fine points.
What we need to be doing is ensuring that people realize that IE is not a sane choice for ANY user.
If that means they have to get rooted before they accept this, so be it.
They WILL get rooted eventually, so why not sooner than later?
No amount of patches can prevent that simple fact.
If you own a worn out car, fixing broken components does not make the car more reliable.
If you have to take a long trip, you need a reliable car.
In this case a new car is FREE, so why waste resources trying to fix the broken one?
I could have bought an unlocked phone, but NOT in N.America.
And Motorola told me (I checked) that if I bought my phone from overseas they would not provide warranty.
Catch-22
Anyway, Motorola can bugger off. I like my Sony Ericsson a lot better.
The Motorola had other issues as well.
This summer I bought an unlocked Sony Ericsson in Singapore. Totally unlocked.
Cost me about $200 Canadian.
Well worth the price.
They "sell" a slightly different lesser model over here for around $300+
Plus, it is a model not offered in N.America.
Makes no sense that they do not offer it, other than the fact that with these monopolies it is yet another case of how our choices are being limited.
I will NEVER buy a cell phone from the local monopolies in N. America ever again.
At some point I hope they legislate to prevent the mobile carriers from crippling the phones they sell.
When GSM first got going in N.America I bought a Motorola triband GSM phone ( 900,1800,1900 frequencies) from a Circuit City in Minnesota.
It was sold with a VoiceStream activation package.
Of course, when I took it home to Canada I found it was "SIMM locked" to only work with VoiceStream!
After some longish and not amusing phone conversations with VoiceStream I managed to get it unlocked by reminding them that they do not have service here in Canada.
Then I took it with me this summer to Malaysia and Singapore. That is when I found it was also crippled. The only frequency it would work on was the N.American 1900 band.
When I got back I contacted VoiceStream and Motorola to ask what it would take to restore the phone to allow it so work with the frequencies it was advertised as being capable of.
The response was that as VoiceStream ordered these with only 1900 capability the rest was "turned off" in the ROM version shipped to VoiceStream.
"Can they "repair" it?"
"No."
I will pay ( even though I should not have to)
"No"
Can I return it?
"No"
Total rip-off..
Yeah, but is that not really abuse of the Slashdot forum?
I don't think this is supposed to be a soapbox..
Ouch. That would be tragic.
To lose Novell, SuSE, and Symbian in one step would be far too depressing.
Mike Magee STARTED The Register, and still owns part of it.
He left due to an internal disagreement and started The Inquirer.
Get som facts before you babble my friend!
Absolutely. This is a TOTAL TROLL!
Roughly 50% of of the servers we build at present have over 1TB of storage.
Roughly 30% have over 2TB.
With a 3Ware 7500-12 IDE RAID card and 11x200GB disks we hit 2.1TB.
This costs about $6,000 in a server, so is a fairly popular option.
Next month Maxtor ships their 300GB drives (MAYBE, Maxtor have been lying about their release schedules lately). Once that happens, it will be a very common problem.
Yes Please!
Up here in Canada we will not get to see those ads.
I pay extra on cable to get US network coverage, and the cable compnay (Shaw) take it and dub the ads with Canadian ones.
Double-dipping pigs!
A much bigger problem is that Linux filesystems have a capacity limit of 2TB.
Many servers now have the physical capacity of over 2TB on a filesystem storage device.
Unfortunately this is still a very significant limitation.
This problem is much more commonly encountered than file size limitations.
Why is XM a good thing? Two words:
Canadian Content.
Imagine you lived in a fairly large US state, let's say California.
Imagine ( if you can) that the state government ruled that of the music and other content on all the stations, at least 40% of it must be by California artists, and published by California companies.
Up here north of the 49th, we NEED XM!
Seems to be "The Missing Link"
Or did Slashdot just get DMCA cold feet?