The main reason I don't use them to replace every bulb is the delay and the size.
Main use lights in rooms at my house still use the old fashioned burn out every 6 months bulb. The delay in "on" is not acceptable to me for regular use in my house. Things like tourch lamps, always on or mostly always on lights like in the garage, laundry room, stairs from the basement, the basement are running CFL. There are a few lights I would like to replace, but due to outlet(like the little lights on a ceiling fan) or the fixture it is not possible. Most of the fixtures in my house aren't big enough to support a CFL bulb. We plan on replacing some of the ceiling fans with fixtures soon, so maybe I can put CFs in those provided they will fit. I don't do the paying on the powerbill, so I don't know if moving to them made any difference in power consumption. But the fact that I haven't had to replace the bulb in those commonly on rooms is sure nice. I'd rather buy a 2-3x expensive bulb that last many more times longer.
The old-timer - These posters, who hang around slashdot land, have forgotten to move on. They post just to show off their low slashdot id. This makes some druel, and others comment that low id does not mean more intelligent. However, they're all wrong anyway.
Thats me, and I think your wrong about being wrong.
1: Don't accept EULA, go unpatched, be a zombie. 2: Accept the EULA, patch. 3: Don't accept the EULA, run some other operating system with a noninvasive EULA.
And don't tell me he "has a business reason" to need to run windows2000. If he was wise he would have taken care of this. If he is in a position where he doesn't patch his machine for YEARS, he either needs to patch/accepteula or switch, anything else is a bad, bad decision.
I'm assuming it's been years only since he didn't mention any other service packs, this maybe shortsight on my part. Still he needs to make a responsible decision here.
Not to mention that TFA wasn't about the boat entirely, it was about this douchy writers boating event, which just happend to be done in a new fancy kayak. Very light on technical details. Mostly fluff.
I'd say he has a valid point on some things. The one major thing I have a problem with is him touting XP64. XP 64bit is the hugest piece of shit know to man. Thats why it costs less than 32bit XP. Little to no drivers for it, seperate paths for 32 and 64 executables, ontop of it just being buggy beta code level of stability. It's worse quality wise than WindowsME.
Or you could be looking into it and DHS is just saying hey, unless you want your winders turned into a mega botnet, patch your machines like your suppose to.
Novell recently started offering OpenSuSE as its "free" type offering. Most things will run under or, or be made to run under it. I know how certification works, its a bummer, but a fact of life in the IT world. Thankfully most things they are certified for RedHatAS/ES are also now certified with SLES, Including Oracle products. Once vendors opened their eyes to see that there was more than one "Enterprise" linux out there. And all the hoardes of Novell users switching from dos to linux probably helped alittle too.
I think with the advent of spam, The junk mailers realize they have to send out more of their filth to keep their market share of ripping off old people, and annoying the rest of the general population. This probably makes up and more for the loss of general letters and bills comming thru the mail system. I wish unsolicited mail(both regular and electronic) was illegal much like faxspam. While I'm ranting on junk mail, I would also like to bitch about the douche that throws the free papers in my yard twice a week, and the people that send me phonebooks every 3 months. Phonebooks should be strictly opt-in, I think a majority of people have found better ways to find the information that is normally gotten from the 10lbs of advertising ladend crap they so graciously dump on my doorstep every 90ish days.
Redhat's enterprise support is a joke, they will find any excuse to not "support your configuration". When I call Novell, I talk to actual engineers who can help me, not some dipship $5.15/hr college student who is reading from a queue card.
So does petrol diesel, It starts to congeal in temperatures commonly found in winter in many areas of the US. Thats why most people who store diesel or diesel vehics outside use tank heaters. It just happens that biodiesel gels at a higher temp than petroldiesel. Solong as you are prepared, it shouldn't be an issue.
Your looking for "improved performance" out of raid5? Never used it, or even read about it I'm guessing. Raid5 while excellent for redundancy, is quite slow when you are talking about alot of writes.
This would be really handy for rental cars, no need for them to give a map of hotels/sights/restraunts any longer. Just scroll thru the pics and select the hotel, restraunt, tourist trap, etc... of your liking, then follow the arrows/automated voice.
The way vendors work is they are very specific about what they support, not support as in will it work or not, support as in tech support, release support, management saftey blanket support. So it doesn't matter if you are running CentOS, Fedora, or HomeMadeOSBasedOffRedHat, if it's not REDHAT AS SPECIFICVERSIONNUMBER, they are gonna tell you to go pound sand. Thats not to say the the app/middleware/etc... wont run, you'll just be unsupported, and if you can fix it your self 100% of the time, more power to you, but most management will not allow you to run w/o vendor support of some way shape or form. Even some business insurance providers require that you have certain levels of support for some critical stuff, much like they require a disaster recovery plan.
Actually a distro can become an monopoly of sorts even with the GPL,
BigDatabaseVendor: I vote we exclusively support DistroX BigMiddlewareVendor: me top me too BigIntegrationVendor: Yep BigDatabaseVendor: We also have to strongarm or buy out our competition DistroX: We need exclusive OEM rights from a DudeYourgettingahardwareVendor and OverPricedBlueBoxVendor. All: $$$$$
You are always free to make whatever work on whatever platform you wish if you have the source, but $upport is required for the PHB's and you don't get that $upport safety blanket they insist upon if your not running DistroX.
I think it would be more prudent to have redundancy in this system. Maybe one in the arctic, one in antarctic, one in maybe the Sahara or Gobi, or maybe under a mountain somewhere. Thus ruling out some sort of catastrophy taking out the entire seed vault. You would also rule out one country being in charge of the system.
If you leave an item behind somewhere and someone finds it, thats not exactly stealing. It's just the person who finds it being a dick for not returning it. They didn't take it out of the persons house, pocket, hand, apartment,while the persons back was turned, etc.. that is stealing. If you are a freaking idiot and leave your items somewhere carelessly, your just a moron, and if the finder does not return it, your a moron w/o said item. Deal with it.
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I use this feature, I would like to make it persistent tho. :|
I couldn't find anything in the plist about it.
The main reason I don't use them to replace every bulb is the delay and the size.
Main use lights in rooms at my house still use the old fashioned burn out every 6 months bulb. The delay in "on" is not acceptable to me for regular use in my house. Things like tourch lamps, always on or mostly always on lights like in the garage, laundry room, stairs from the basement, the basement are running CFL. There are a few lights I would like to replace, but due to outlet(like the little lights on a ceiling fan) or the fixture it is not possible. Most of the fixtures in my house aren't big enough to support a CFL bulb. We plan on replacing some of the ceiling fans with fixtures soon, so maybe I can put CFs in those provided they will fit.
I don't do the paying on the powerbill, so I don't know if moving to them made any difference in power consumption. But the fact that I haven't had to replace the bulb in those commonly on rooms is sure nice. I'd rather buy a 2-3x expensive bulb that last many more times longer.
The old-timer - These posters, who hang around slashdot land, have forgotten to move on. They post just to show off their low slashdot id. This makes some druel, and others comment that low id does not mean more intelligent. However, they're all wrong anyway.
Thats me, and I think your wrong about being wrong.
He does have a choice.
1: Don't accept EULA, go unpatched, be a zombie.
2: Accept the EULA, patch.
3: Don't accept the EULA, run some other operating system with a noninvasive EULA.
And don't tell me he "has a business reason" to need to run windows2000. If he was wise he would have taken care of this. If he is in a position where he doesn't patch his machine for YEARS, he either needs to patch/accepteula or switch, anything else is a bad, bad decision.
I'm assuming it's been years only since he didn't mention any other service packs, this maybe shortsight on my part.
Still he needs to make a responsible decision here.
Not to mention that TFA wasn't about the boat entirely, it was about this douchy writers boating event, which just happend to be done in a new fancy kayak. Very light on technical details. Mostly fluff.
WMP for mac is nomore.
You might be referring to Flip4mac the quicktime plugin that Microsnot says you should use to replace WMP.
I'd say he has a valid point on some things.
The one major thing I have a problem with is him touting XP64.
XP 64bit is the hugest piece of shit know to man.
Thats why it costs less than 32bit XP.
Little to no drivers for it, seperate paths for 32 and 64 executables, ontop of it just being buggy beta code level of stability.
It's worse quality wise than WindowsME.
News for Nerds, Stuff that matters, and Steven Colbert news.
Or you could be looking into it and DHS is just saying hey, unless you want your winders turned into a mega botnet, patch your machines like your suppose to.
Novell recently started offering OpenSuSE as its "free" type offering.
Most things will run under or, or be made to run under it.
I know how certification works, its a bummer, but a fact of life in the IT world.
Thankfully most things they are certified for RedHatAS/ES are also now certified with SLES, Including Oracle products.
Once vendors opened their eyes to see that there was more than one "Enterprise" linux out there.
And all the hoardes of Novell users switching from dos to linux probably helped alittle too.
I think with the advent of spam, The junk mailers realize they have to send out more of their filth to keep their market share of ripping off old people, and annoying the rest of the general population. This probably makes up and more for the loss of general letters and bills comming thru the mail system. I wish unsolicited mail(both regular and electronic) was illegal much like faxspam.
While I'm ranting on junk mail, I would also like to bitch about the douche that throws the free papers in my yard twice a week, and the people that send me phonebooks every 3 months. Phonebooks should be strictly opt-in, I think a majority of people have found better ways to find the information that is normally gotten from the 10lbs of advertising ladend crap they so graciously dump on my doorstep every 90ish days.
Redhat's enterprise support is a joke, they will find any excuse to not "support your configuration".
When I call Novell, I talk to actual engineers who can help me, not some dipship $5.15/hr college student who is reading from a queue card.
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So does petrol diesel, It starts to congeal in temperatures commonly found in winter in many areas of the US.
Thats why most people who store diesel or diesel vehics outside use tank heaters. It just happens that biodiesel gels at a higher temp than petroldiesel. Solong as you are prepared, it shouldn't be an issue.
taco needs to create windersvistabeta.slashdot.org for all this shit.
Seriously why does a friggin beta need so much coverage here.
I win...
Your looking for "improved performance" out of raid5?
Never used it, or even read about it I'm guessing.
Raid5 while excellent for redundancy, is quite slow when you are talking about alot of writes.
This would be really handy for rental cars, no need for them to give a map of hotels/sights/restraunts any longer.
Just scroll thru the pics and select the hotel, restraunt, tourist trap, etc... of your liking, then follow the arrows/automated voice.
The way vendors work is they are very specific about what they support, not support as in will it work or not, support as in tech support, release support, management saftey blanket support.
So it doesn't matter if you are running CentOS, Fedora, or HomeMadeOSBasedOffRedHat, if it's not REDHAT AS SPECIFICVERSIONNUMBER, they are gonna tell you to go pound sand. Thats not to say the the app/middleware/etc... wont run, you'll just be unsupported, and if you can fix it your self 100% of the time, more power to you, but most management will not allow you to run w/o vendor support of some way shape or form. Even some business insurance providers require that you have certain levels of support for some critical stuff, much like they require a disaster recovery plan.
Actually a distro can become an monopoly of sorts even with the GPL,
BigDatabaseVendor: I vote we exclusively support DistroX
BigMiddlewareVendor: me top me too
BigIntegrationVendor: Yep
BigDatabaseVendor: We also have to strongarm or buy out our competition
DistroX: We need exclusive OEM rights from a DudeYourgettingahardwareVendor and OverPricedBlueBoxVendor.
All: $$$$$
You are always free to make whatever work on whatever platform you wish if you have the source, but $upport is required for the PHB's and you don't get that $upport safety blanket they insist upon if your not running DistroX.
I think it would be more prudent to have redundancy in this system.
Maybe one in the arctic, one in antarctic, one in maybe the Sahara or Gobi, or maybe under a mountain somewhere.
Thus ruling out some sort of catastrophy taking out the entire seed vault.
You would also rule out one country being in charge of the system.
Yea they need Kudzu, Grass Carp, Zebra Mussles, and fireants to fix the toad problem.
If there are 1800 known, why is 3 additional ones being found all the important?
VirtualPC is doing what it's designed to do, run peecee os's.
This is not news.
If you leave an item behind somewhere and someone finds it, thats not exactly stealing. It's just the person who finds it being a dick for not returning it. They didn't take it out of the persons house, pocket, hand, apartment,while the persons back was turned, etc.. that is stealing.
If you are a freaking idiot and leave your items somewhere carelessly, your just a moron, and if the finder does not return it, your a moron w/o said item. Deal with it.