I think this story is badly titled. My understanding is that the outage happened because of patch Tuesday but Skype isn't blaming Microsoft for it. In fact it helped reveal a flaw in their p2p healing networking stack. I'm as much a/. fanboy as the next guy but this title is inflammatory and misleading.
Agreed. The installer and releases for windows are excellent, too, in my opinion. Combine that with the free version of http://www.sqlmanagner.net/ and Im one happy camper. I've ditched SQL Server for my own projects and have been happily using Postgresql on Linux and windows. Awesome product, IMHO, especially since the 8.0 release!!
This is almost heart breaking. TechTV was like the last bastion of smart, quirky technology reporting mixing older and younger opinions and experiences. Now the only smart parts have been evicerated and the only things that are left are the craptacularly poorly produced G4 game shows. What a shame. Terrible terrible shame.
This is the mobo design Alienware came up with, right? My understanding is that you can use ANY two video cards that are the same and are PCI-X. You could just as well do two ATI cards. Who submitted this? Nvidia marketing?:-)
Ars is covering this too. Ken Fisher makes it a point to mention that the person who made the claims is in marketing. He also speculates, quite logically, that bringing out dual core Prescotts in '05 would be a feat even for Intel. Worth reading for a more sobering take on the situation.
I've been reading ALOT of the track backs over the last 24 hours linked from Mena's post on the SixApart web site. Clearly there are some angry users... and their anger isnt' entirely unfounded. I don't think Six Apart's intentions were to screw anyone or to try and capitalize on a dominent market position via bait and switch. That said, I do think the new pricing schedule is a bit ornerous and it doesnt' seem to have much of a migration strategy for people who are hosting multiple blogs on a shoestring budget. Hopefully SA will add one or two more pricing schedules that will accomodate the grass roots community they helped build. At the very least I think folks would like to see more blogs / authors available at the lower cost teers of the pricing schedule. Just my $0.02
Daniel has also accumulated on the order of about $20,000 in dept keeping Gentoo going so... helping the guy who gave us all Gentoo feed his kids isn't such a bad thing, IMHO:-)
Ars Technica has a pretty even handed take on this situation. Basically the Spy Audit stuff that Earthlink has comes up with quite a few false positives. A fresh out-of-the-box Dell system even showed alot of "spyware" hits. Makes you wonder if it's at least some marketing hype for Earthlink?
This was a great read... which I was fortunate enough to do before this poor guy's machine got/.ed. Anyway, an adaption of this article aimed at specific users or tasks (developers, Gentoo users, etc) would be awesome! Kudos for the writeup. Can't wait to go home and try it out!
There is a bill in California right now that sets out to address consumor privacy concerns. NPR also talked about this in the morning. I agree w/ poster #1 with the potential benefits of RFID and despite my liberal and consumer advocate leanings, I am in favor of them. Clearly, however, policy needs to be set for how they will function both in and out of stores/warehouses. Should they be deactivated when leaving a store? At first I thought yes, but then other potential uses are quashed. Suppose your refridgerator could give you an instant inventory? That kind of thing is something i'de like to have someday. A middle ground was proposed by RSA to have a bag that temporarily blocks RFID until you get home. I don't know how good that will work for all situations, though. Like it or not, RFID is coming. The benefits are just too great to ignore. The question is, how will it be regulated? Now is the time for consumers to lobby for legislation dictating how RFID can be used!
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I think this story is badly titled. My understanding is that the outage happened because of patch Tuesday but Skype isn't blaming Microsoft for it. In fact it helped reveal a flaw in their p2p healing networking stack. I'm as much a /. fanboy as the next guy but this title is inflammatory and misleading.
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More info: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070820-gia
Amen.
Agreed. The installer and releases for windows are excellent, too, in my opinion. Combine that with the free version of http://www.sqlmanagner.net/ and Im one happy camper. I've ditched SQL Server for my own projects and have been happily using Postgresql on Linux and windows. Awesome product, IMHO, especially since the 8.0 release!!
Now the great and terrible secrets of Geeks In Space will be available to us all! Muahahahaha!!!
C'mon with this...
"Linux? That's hot."
Big deal! Linux has had this for like... ever now!
;-)
Oh wait...
Good lord! That would definitely be plumbing the depths of rediculously mindless television.
Dumbing down starts? I don't think you can get any "dumber" than G4 already is. The poor TechTV souls...
This is almost heart breaking. TechTV was like the last bastion of smart, quirky technology reporting mixing older and younger opinions and experiences. Now the only smart parts have been evicerated and the only things that are left are the craptacularly poorly produced G4 game shows. What a shame. Terrible terrible shame.
Also, the new Batman tralier is out too! Sweet!
Wups :-)
:-)
"practical"
Good one, though. Gave me a chuckle.
Cheers
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If there is already an LSB, why do we have to agree on a standard of LSB? Isn't that THE defacto standard?
Holy crap... that was hilarious :-)
Ahhh.... you're probably right. I was getting my acronyms confused. :-)
This is the mobo design Alienware came up with, right? My understanding is that you can use ANY two video cards that are the same and are PCI-X. You could just as well do two ATI cards. Who submitted this? Nvidia marketing? :-)
Ars is covering this too. Ken Fisher makes it a point to mention that the person who made the claims is in marketing. He also speculates, quite logically, that bringing out dual core Prescotts in '05 would be a feat even for Intel. Worth reading for a more sobering take on the situation.
I've been reading ALOT of the track backs over the last 24 hours linked from Mena's post on the SixApart web site. Clearly there are some angry users... and their anger isnt' entirely unfounded. I don't think Six Apart's intentions were to screw anyone or to try and capitalize on a dominent market position via bait and switch. That said, I do think the new pricing schedule is a bit ornerous and it doesnt' seem to have much of a migration strategy for people who are hosting multiple blogs on a shoestring budget. Hopefully SA will add one or two more pricing schedules that will accomodate the grass roots community they helped build. At the very least I think folks would like to see more blogs / authors available at the lower cost teers of the pricing schedule. Just my $0.02
Daniel has also accumulated on the order of about $20,000 in dept keeping Gentoo going so... helping the guy who gave us all Gentoo feed his kids isn't such a bad thing, IMHO :-)
Ars Technica has a pretty even handed take on this situation. Basically the Spy Audit stuff that Earthlink has comes up with quite a few false positives. A fresh out-of-the-box Dell system even showed alot of "spyware" hits. Makes you wonder if it's at least some marketing hype for Earthlink?
Ah ha!
This was a great read... which I was fortunate enough to do before this poor guy's machine got /.ed. Anyway, an adaption of this article aimed at specific users or tasks (developers, Gentoo users, etc) would be awesome! Kudos for the writeup. Can't wait to go home and try it out!
There is a bill in California right now that sets out to address consumor privacy concerns. NPR also talked about this in the morning. I agree w/ poster #1 with the potential benefits of RFID and despite my liberal and consumer advocate leanings, I am in favor of them. Clearly, however, policy needs to be set for how they will function both in and out of stores/warehouses. Should they be deactivated when leaving a store? At first I thought yes, but then other potential uses are quashed. Suppose your refridgerator could give you an instant inventory? That kind of thing is something i'de like to have someday. A middle ground was proposed by RSA to have a bag that temporarily blocks RFID until you get home. I don't know how good that will work for all situations, though. Like it or not, RFID is coming. The benefits are just too great to ignore. The question is, how will it be regulated? Now is the time for consumers to lobby for legislation dictating how RFID can be used!
Worth noting also, Linuxworld magazine has an article this month on HA-OSCAR which is pretty good!