Re:how many people actually _like_ windows?
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Pepping Up Windows
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Why Windows?
- hibernate works. - sleep works. - laptop undock works. - wireless automatic network connection/disconnection/hunting works. - windows automatically searches for new network parameters when waking up on a foreign network. - changing display resolution doesn't require a logout/login. - my iPod works. - I can read the unfixated CDRs that my Sony camera produces. - I can use IE to view those few sites/use those web apps that require it and use firefox for everything else.
The only thing that really bothers me about Windows is the user interface. There isn't much in the way of software that I use on Linux/Solaris that I can't also run on Windows; but the list of stuff that works on Windows that doesn't work on Linux is much longer. Maybe not for ever, but for today anyways.
All that said, I use Solaris/Linux and SunRays at home. But for work, Windows is it.
A Sun V210 packed with as much disk and RAM and CPU that I could get my grubby little hands on. These are noisy bastards, so we put it in the basement. (Told you the basement was important.)
Solaris 10. (We aren't playing games, right?)
Sun Ray Server Software.
Three Sun Ray 180 units tied together as a multi-head group. These things are not silent, but they sure are quiet. Plus, you can power them off and your session stays intact on the server.
A comfortable desk to hold said Sun Rays.
A comfortable chair to sit on.
I prefer a second-story (or, preferably higher) window so I can see the sky, but your mileage may vary.
I also agree with the contributer above who recommended a cat, for many of the same reasons.
Either good speakers to play your MP3s, or a good sound system to play your CDs or whatever.
A different room to keep the TV, kids, and/or significant other in.
A comfortable headset for your phone.
A ringer-off button on your phone.
Whatever open-source tools wet your whistle -- I'm of the vim persuasion myself.
I've got a couple of Sun Rays around the house right now, and while the hot-desking is nice and the fact that your sessions can survive the end unit being disconnected, what really sells it for me is the fact that the unit is as close to silent as makes no difference. This means you can have as mean, loud, hot computer as you like -- and you don't have to listen to it. True, gamers won't like them, but that isn't who they are sold to.
I picked the V210 because I've got essentially exclusive use of a V240 at the office right now (pilot project, don't ya know) and it runs great. But a V240 is excessive for just me, so I'd settle for a V210 fully loaded.
I picked Solaris 10 because it has some nice OS features. Desktop experiences are a dime a dozen to me, I find BlastWave provides an adequate Gnome, but olvwm works for me in a pinch.
Absolutely, I would have welcomed death after 30. But you know that after I moved out of my mom's basement, here in the real world things are much better.
Speaking of rsync mishaps... I did this once, as root, a long time ago before I knew I wasn't as smart as I thought I was:
here# rsh there 'cd/projects/team/task/results ; \
for i in * ; do \
if [ ! -h/net/here/projects/team/task/result/$i ] ; then \
echo Removing/projects/team/task/results/$i ; \
rm -rf $i & \
fi ; \
done ' &
Now I know better, and accordingly Windows has been installed on my laptop.
I realize I am being sarchastic but I am always confused by "online" backup simply because it doesn't make much sense from a practicality standpoint.
We do online backups. We have a close association with a ISP connectivity company which provides highspeed fiber links to their customers; and 1Gb link to us. Most of our backup customers connect in to us at 100Mb/s or better; and since it stays in or connectivity partner's network, the Internet is never involved. And since we stage backups to disk (and then spool them to tape later through the day), backups are faster to us than they would be to local tape. We do file servers, mail servers, and even Network Appliance filers -- you name it, we'll back it up.
If you can get the connectivity, it does make sense. (And for us, it make dollars and cents.)
And no, it isn't cheap. The service alone is priced comparably to you running your own drives and buying your own tape. What you win is built-in offsiting, no capital costs for tape drives (accountants love overhead), and we pay the backup administrators to babysit the whole process. And hey -- this is your business. What is it worth to protect that?
Just curious how all you muni-wi-fi proponents are intending to defend a wireless network from virus activity. Switched, high speed networks can be rendered useless by viral activity; a wireless network will be even more vunerable. What would make me, an end user, want to compete for wi-fi radio time with the windows virus du-jour? And why would I, as a municipal (or any other level) taxpayer want to finance bandwidth I know in advance I am not going to be able to use because of this?
You know, it is interesting that while everyone here is happilly slamming the "Linux Desktop", the two packages that most people are referring to (Gnome and KDE) are platform-agnostic -- I'm running both of them on Solaris courtesy of Blastwave. And you know, they suck just as hard on Solaris as they do on Linux.
So it isn't Linux, or even GNU/Linux -- it's Gnome and KDE.
We purchased 40 V60x servers (the 1U equivilent to your V65x) 18 months ago; we also have one V65x, which is statistically uninteresting. We also don't care about RAID.
Of the 40 V60x servers, I've had one failed mainboard and one ethernet jack that doesn't hold onto its ethernet wire properly. That's it. Oh, and Sun sent a guy to fix the mainboard for me. Regular warrantee, no extra service.
Of course, since I'm Canadian, I might be more special than you Americans.
What really annoyed me is that we bought into these computers, and then Sun goes and EOLs them for the Opterons, which are not immediately suitable for what we are doing with them. We are looking at the Opterons, but these V20z systems are rebadged computers, not Genuine Sun Things. (For the record, yes the V60x computers are also rebadged computers, but they work pretty well.)
If one of the accused was my kid, I'd have a lawyer at the courthouse Monday morning with all of his knives sharpened. School boards and principals love power and tought talk. The point where the rubber meets the road is when an equal or higher power responds with bigger guns.
What's the lesson here?
Rules only apply to the poor; the rich can effectively buy/bully 'exceptions'.
Your kid learns they can do what they want, and then daddy bails them out and just makes the problems 'go away'.
Ah yes, the OJ syndrome -- the best justice money can buy. Welcome to America.
I skimmed some of your stuff, and from what I remember two days later your quality is up to scratch, and you are a far better writer than I am.
Annonymous is correct -- it isn't enough to merely have quality writing, you must have a steady quantity of it too. The better you are, the more an audience will forgive a lower quantity of writing, and (perhaps paradoxically) will be more tollerant of occasional lower quality writing.
However, you have to ensure that you generate content at some minimum pace to end up on your reader's regular rounds, however frequently they happen to go down their list. Me, I bring up my list of around sixty weblogs etc in tabs in my browser first thing in the morning and generally go through them all at intervals through the day -- anyone who doesn't provide something stellar at least once a month ends up getting cut. Other readers will have different patterns.
Seriously -- if you update every sixty days, what is going to prompt me to check you out every sixty days? Unless you get linked by one of the people I regularly read, chances are the answer is: nothing. And those chances diminish because none of the people I regularly read know to check you out every sixty days either.
But all this is a diversion from the real point: your weblog is supposed to be for you. Don't write to be popular or influential; write for yourself. My own weblog is a case in point. I really don't care if anyone reads it, it is there for me. Now I've met some interesting people through it (especially through the Sun Ray exploration I have been having) but really if no one ever read it then it wouldn't be the end of anyone's world.
Anyone who's had access to both a PS/2 computer and a old-style sun keyboard can tell you that even though it looks like a PS/2 connector, it isn't a PS/2 connector. Thus the need for connection trickery (or the USB keyboards, which are nice).
Fortunately, methods do exist for attaching a Sun keyboard to a PC.
Did you even try the content on that page? One link has been strikethrough'd, one was in japanese, one refers to a table as a "trivial hardware project", and the other six are dead.
No, what you want is a USB keyboard and a decent mouse (sun mice are lousy compared to others).
So, would I pay to create content for a site like slashdot (or some forum site) so that others can actually make money?
I believe, sir, you have it backwards. Your position is that your content is what partially drives people to this site; while true, it is irrelevant: what the site owners are doing is selling you the opportunity to entertain yourself making witty comments, something you currently get for free. You spend some time on it, and judging from your karma you do it fairly regularly -- it is an entertainment which obviously has some value to you. The site owners are merely trying to monetize some of that value to you into their pocket (not unreasonable given that it is their site and the terms of use are entirely at their discretion).
The opportunity to view said witty comments for free is the teaser, which encourages more people to sign up.
Think of all the doomsayers who like to say "The sky is falling" around times of economic uncertainty and social change. In the end, the ones who take the risks during those times, usually come out ahead.
Sorry sir, your logic does not follow. Just because the winners were risk-takers, it does not necessarilly follow that risk-takers are winners. The risk-takers are winners because they took the right risk at the (right) time.
That said, I do not think Linux is a "risk" these days.
This is just another one of those bills we keep seeing that has absolutely no chance of ever becoming law, serving the sole purpose of allowing the senator to say "LOOK I WAS AGAINST EBAY SCAMMING!!!!"
This is because senators find it cheaper to pass new legislation than to have to come up with funds required to enforce existing legislation.
It became to much of a Star Trek clone.....(One ship travelling through space encountering weird aliens...)
This was intentional. The plan for Crusade was the same as the plan for Babylon 5 -- put the suits to sleep with a "traditional" series, then blow the doors off it in season two when they'd stopped micromanaging.
Unfortunately, the suits killed it before it got that far. I thought Crusade had promise.
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Why Windows?
- hibernate works.
- sleep works.
- laptop undock works.
- wireless automatic network connection/disconnection/hunting works.
- windows automatically searches for new network parameters when waking up on a foreign network.
- changing display resolution doesn't require a logout/login.
- my iPod works.
- I can read the unfixated CDRs that my Sony camera produces.
- I can use IE to view those few sites/use those web apps that require it and use firefox for everything else.
The only thing that really bothers me about Windows is the user interface. There isn't much in the way of software that I use on Linux/Solaris that I can't also run on Windows; but the list of stuff that works on Windows that doesn't work on Linux is much longer. Maybe not for ever, but for today anyways.
All that said, I use Solaris/Linux and SunRays at home. But for work, Windows is it.
- A basement. This is important.
- A Sun V210 packed with as much disk and RAM and CPU that I could get my grubby little hands on. These are noisy bastards, so we put it in the basement. (Told you the basement was important.)
- Solaris 10. (We aren't playing games, right?)
- Sun Ray Server Software.
- Three Sun Ray 180 units tied together as a multi-head group. These things are not silent, but they sure are quiet. Plus, you can power them off and your session stays intact on the server.
- A comfortable desk to hold said Sun Rays.
- A comfortable chair to sit on.
- I prefer a second-story (or, preferably higher) window so I can see the sky, but your mileage may vary.
- I also agree with the contributer above who recommended a cat, for many of the same reasons.
- Either good speakers to play your MP3s, or a good sound system to play your CDs or whatever.
- A different room to keep the TV, kids, and/or significant other in.
- A comfortable headset for your phone.
- A ringer-off button on your phone.
- Whatever open-source tools wet your whistle -- I'm of the vim persuasion myself.
I've got a couple of Sun Rays around the house right now, and while the hot-desking is nice and the fact that your sessions can survive the end unit being disconnected, what really sells it for me is the fact that the unit is as close to silent as makes no difference. This means you can have as mean, loud, hot computer as you like -- and you don't have to listen to it. True, gamers won't like them, but that isn't who they are sold to.I picked the V210 because I've got essentially exclusive use of a V240 at the office right now (pilot project, don't ya know) and it runs great. But a V240 is excessive for just me, so I'd settle for a V210 fully loaded.
I picked Solaris 10 because it has some nice OS features. Desktop experiences are a dime a dozen to me, I find BlastWave provides an adequate Gnome, but olvwm works for me in a pinch.
Anyways, that was fun.
Go on, try it.
Life sucks. Get a helmet.
here# rsh there 'cd /projects/team/task/results ; \ /net/here/projects/team/task/result/$i ] ; then \ /projects/team/task/results/$i ; \
for i in * ; do \
if [ ! -h
echo Removing
rm -rf $i & \
fi ; \
done ' &
Now I know better, and accordingly Windows has been installed on my laptop.
Dude, we can't get 100 people to agree on a no-risk proposition like what OS to run on their computers.
If you can get the connectivity, it does make sense. (And for us, it make dollars and cents.)
And no, it isn't cheap. The service alone is priced comparably to you running your own drives and buying your own tape. What you win is built-in offsiting, no capital costs for tape drives (accountants love overhead), and we pay the backup administrators to babysit the whole process. And hey -- this is your business. What is it worth to protect that?
Fascinating news from 2002. Got anything more recent?
From a municipal taxpayer standpoing: there is a huge difference between the funding models and their impact on my tax bill.
Just curious how all you muni-wi-fi proponents are intending to defend a wireless network from virus activity. Switched, high speed networks can be rendered useless by viral activity; a wireless network will be even more vunerable. What would make me, an end user, want to compete for wi-fi radio time with the windows virus du-jour? And why would I, as a municipal (or any other level) taxpayer want to finance bandwidth I know in advance I am not going to be able to use because of this?
So it isn't Linux, or even GNU/Linux -- it's Gnome and KDE.
We purchased 40 V60x servers (the 1U equivilent to your V65x) 18 months ago; we also have one V65x, which is statistically uninteresting. We also don't care about RAID.
Of the 40 V60x servers, I've had one failed mainboard and one ethernet jack that doesn't hold onto its ethernet wire properly. That's it. Oh, and Sun sent a guy to fix the mainboard for me. Regular warrantee, no extra service.
Of course, since I'm Canadian, I might be more special than you Americans.
What really annoyed me is that we bought into these computers, and then Sun goes and EOLs them for the Opterons, which are not immediately suitable for what we are doing with them. We are looking at the Opterons, but these V20z systems are rebadged computers, not Genuine Sun Things. (For the record, yes the V60x computers are also rebadged computers, but they work pretty well.)
What's the lesson here?
- Rules only apply to the poor; the rich can effectively buy/bully 'exceptions'.
- Your kid learns they can do what they want, and then daddy bails them out and just makes the problems 'go away'.
Ah yes, the OJ syndrome -- the best justice money can buy. Welcome to America.Annonymous is correct -- it isn't enough to merely have quality writing, you must have a steady quantity of it too. The better you are, the more an audience will forgive a lower quantity of writing, and (perhaps paradoxically) will be more tollerant of occasional lower quality writing.
However, you have to ensure that you generate content at some minimum pace to end up on your reader's regular rounds, however frequently they happen to go down their list. Me, I bring up my list of around sixty weblogs etc in tabs in my browser first thing in the morning and generally go through them all at intervals through the day -- anyone who doesn't provide something stellar at least once a month ends up getting cut. Other readers will have different patterns.
Seriously -- if you update every sixty days, what is going to prompt me to check you out every sixty days? Unless you get linked by one of the people I regularly read, chances are the answer is: nothing. And those chances diminish because none of the people I regularly read know to check you out every sixty days either.
But all this is a diversion from the real point: your weblog is supposed to be for you. Don't write to be popular or influential; write for yourself. My own weblog is a case in point. I really don't care if anyone reads it, it is there for me. Now I've met some interesting people through it (especially through the Sun Ray exploration I have been having) but really if no one ever read it then it wouldn't be the end of anyone's world.
Cost, price, and value are all separate things.
The reason why you don't get readers is because you don't write anything for them to read.
The opportunity to view said witty comments for free is the teaser, which encourages more people to sign up.
Welcome to capitalism, here's your kick in the nuts.
Really? Bespin not interesting enough for Mr. Calrissian?
I wonder what Emperor Molari will make of this development.
This was intentional. The plan for Crusade was the same as the plan for Babylon 5 -- put the suits to sleep with a "traditional" series, then blow the doors off it in season two when they'd stopped micromanaging.
Unfortunately, the suits killed it before it got that far. I thought Crusade had promise.
Yeah -- Bush forgot the "go home" part of the strategy.