After a few days, I suddenly couldn't save any more. I gave up and started keeping my notes in an emacs buffer (which has infinite undo, and can stay up for days with no trouble - go figure.
(tounge firmly in cheek)
Yes, but after many arguments made on the internet, isn't Word classified as an application, and emacs as an os that runs under linux?
1) Americans speak their own brand of English that's incomprehensible to most of the rest of the world
As and American, or USian, let me just say:
Fo' shizzle!
(could not resist)
(For the rest of the world: this is slang of slang; it means "For sure", or "I agree/That's it/You got that correct". Not sure of the roots, beyond what would be 'Ebonics')
While I will profess my knowledge of fiber doesn't go much beyond "more better, more faster", you stated yourself that it depends on your "average user".
Plain users on wordprocessors, meh, they'll never be able to tell.
CAD/CAM: Helps, they might notice.
GIS: Oh, god yes, they can and do notice immediatly.
On topic tangent: Why ram isn't being used on devices is beyond me. Think about it when it comes to video cards, thier memory, GPUs and AGP speeds. The limiting factor is usually memory amount and speed (oversimp'd, I know). Why some of these fiber cards don't have DDR/SDR slots like some of the IDE RAID capable cards to help speed up when multiple copies are needed. Even pulling off a 16 channel SATA RAID5 seems to fall over after about the 3rd copy.
Back to my point: My predacessor for some reason never used the fiber link on my lab's powervault, just the 10/100 link. So I plugged in the fiber, did a few trials to compare (there is lots of 1.2G+ files available for me to choose) and when I switched over someone logged in 5 minutes later and said "Damn, what'd you do this is fast!".
It has been steps up since then, because my network (inherited) was a mish-mashed mess of: Gb Fiber into the switch, 10/100 out. Cat5 from the switch to patch panel and from the wall to the desktops. Cat5e in the ceilings. Powervault 740 would top out at 7MB/s over fiber. Snapserver topped out at 3MB/s (ugh) (10/100) Eventually got a pogolinux box ~10MB/s (Gb copper on 100Mbit {sigh})
Added a powerconnect switch (5224?) and while not the best, added an undeniable boost, and a strange loss: Cat6 on the Gb copper cabable machine's patch panel and wall connection (cat5e still in place). Added a fiber link from stacked powervault's switch to powerconnect switch. Gb fiber on pogo box to 5224(?) Snapservers = same (no suprise there) 740 dropped to 5MB/s Pogolinux box = 38MB/s average, 48MB/s sustained. (samba 3.02, 32Kb buffers seems to be the sweet spot with 2k/xp desktops)
Overkill?
Depends on you "average users" and infrastructure doesn't it?
And there's always going to be a bottleneck usually in the order of: user, desktop, sysadmin (naaah), network, server.
I agree with you, 10Gb is a solution, to a problem I don't really have, yet. The problem in need of a solution is SMRF (Storage, More, Redundant, Faster).
(Replying instead of modding...hit this wall before and HTH)
0.6, IMO, pales in comparison to.4 and.5 when it comes to stability.
I leave my work machine on all the time to filter mail, so sync support was awesome, but.6 just seemed to go into la-la land after 2 days, where.5 would be fine for 2+ weeks w/o incident.
Oh, and a bit of info for those having problems with missing messages and "upgrade blues" or general wierdness: in your profile, find and move/delete all the.msf files (index files of mailbox stores), next snyc or folder click it will regenerate them. (happend to me twice going from.3 to.5)
Another bit of info for the person asking about sig's in email: make a text file, and tools -> options, click on account, and check the "attach this sig box", and, naturally, attach the text file. While you are there, if you have several different accounts, go to smtp at the bottom and add different email servers you use, and attach them to the appropriate account...lest you get the dreaded "Relaying denied" gripe messages.
Tbird.7 just rocks, fast, sync support...and my boss, the EX-Outbreak Express user just loves the way Tb *ASKS* what app to open attachments with.
She told me that was the best thing for her, as she gets tif, shp, ppt, and various other office and gis formats and OE just drove her nuts taking that control away.
Will it consider software in directories that have a GPL license to be a virus? Will it consider the device driver i wrote for an old graphics card to be a virus? Will it consider IBM's web based office productivity suite a virus?
Am I the only one who read that with the "It puts the lotion in the basket" tone of voice?
what are the benefits of using firefox and thunderbird over using the normal mozilla?
Mainly speed, IME, due to less integration.
It is personal preference.
I like seperate apps, VS, Integrate everything to each other.
That, and thunderbird.6 has syncronization support, which is great when I leave my mail up at work, and can sync at home without clicking a dozen folders, waiting 1/2 a minute between each folder.
I've got one of pogolinux's Storageware devices, running RH AS3 (versus the RH9 it came "with"...got the disks 3 days after the device. No matter, now).
Anyway, this thing has 32 of those *BRIGHT* blue led's...16 are constatntly lit when the drives are powered, and the other 16 during access. With the drives all in raid 5, you can imagine the flashing.
Also imagine the noise of 4 (guess on my part so far) 5K to 7.2Krpm fans going off. Yikes.
The only other colors are a green led for network access, and IIRC amber for power.
What still amuses me about this box is that the power and reset buttons are the size of #2 pencil leads. I suppose it reduces accidental resets/power offs, but the buttons being smaller then all the led's is quite funny/amusing.
Slashdot Mirror
Mussstttt...destroy...mental...image.
Argh!
I read "iPod Killer" as "iPod Puller"...
Excuse me. I must go scrub my brain.
After a few days, I suddenly couldn't save any more. I gave up and started keeping my notes in an emacs buffer (which has infinite undo, and can stay up for days with no trouble - go figure.
(tounge firmly in cheek)
Yes, but after many arguments made on the internet, isn't Word classified as an application, and emacs as an os that runs under linux?
1) Americans speak their own brand of English that's incomprehensible to most of the rest of the world
As and American, or USian, let me just say:
Fo' shizzle!
(could not resist)
(For the rest of the world:
this is slang of slang; it means "For sure", or "I agree/That's it/You got that correct".
Not sure of the roots, beyond what would be 'Ebonics')
So it throttles Windows in general, thereby slowing the spread of viruses! I like it!
:P
It could be vaporware, but there are things that exist currently that do the same thing:
Seti@home, Folding@home, Slashdotting, and Windowsupdate during a scare...for instance.
Heck, even I've done it...of course the switch misconfiguration was a coincidence.
quote from TFA:
The company has now launched geography classes for its staff to avoid further bloomers which have caused embarrassment {snip}
Ummm...shouldn't the word be "bloopers"?
Isn't bloomers a word for dresses or ladies underwear (archaic word, granted)?
It just takes on new meaning when read like this:
The company has now launched geography classes for its staff to avoid further ladies underwear
which have caused embarrassment
Why not something like aquaMoose?
Hey, I like that!
Not sure why, hard to explain.
Mooses (meeses?) are vastly underrated, IMO.
"Load gun. Point at foot. Pull trigger. Repeat.", should be their motto.
It is, but the lesson lost meaning because it goes more like this:
"Load buffering gun.
buffering
Point buffering at foot.
buffering
Pull buffering trigger.
buffering
Repeat."
{unexplained pause, stutter}
CxO's brain registers extreme pa...buffering {connection reset}.
I agree with you, but I must point out a slight error:
If you're going to bullshit and scam someone go after the stupid
(tounge firmly in cheek)
I thought most Microsoft pitches were to CxO's and upper/middle management and not IT professionals.
Just RTA, again, in case you missed it.
Why not limit it to only running 1 application at any time... that way users won't get confused at all ....
[puts on flame suit]
Hi! You must be new here!
I'd like to introduce you to Mr. MacOS9.
Listen up: In Australia, "rooting" is a slang verb which means "to have sex with".
Neat...gives a whole new meaning to the shirt that says "Got Root?".
Oh, and a hearty thanks to all the cap'ers out there that bittorrent shows I've missed.
Still looking for the 2hr season finale of Enterprise. Ah, well.
Pogolinux.com.
I've got one at work, 16 drive, SATA raid 5 at 2.2TB.
You can use any OS that'll handle it (Redhat AS3 on mine).
They simply rock, and one of the dudes maintains fedoralegacy.org (IIRC).
Cool.
While I will profess my knowledge of fiber doesn't go much beyond "more better, more faster", you stated yourself that it depends on your "average user".
Plain users on wordprocessors, meh, they'll never be able to tell.
CAD/CAM: Helps, they might notice.
GIS: Oh, god yes, they can and do notice immediatly.
On topic tangent: Why ram isn't being used on devices is beyond me.
Think about it when it comes to video cards, thier memory, GPUs and AGP speeds. The limiting factor is usually memory amount and speed (oversimp'd, I know).
Why some of these fiber cards don't have DDR/SDR slots like some of the IDE RAID capable cards to help speed up when multiple copies are needed.
Even pulling off a 16 channel SATA RAID5 seems to fall over after about the 3rd copy.
Back to my point:
My predacessor for some reason never used the fiber link on my lab's powervault, just the 10/100 link. So I plugged in the fiber, did a few trials to compare (there is lots of 1.2G+ files available for me to choose) and when I switched over someone logged in 5 minutes later and said "Damn, what'd you do this is fast!".
It has been steps up since then, because my network (inherited) was a mish-mashed mess of:
Gb Fiber into the switch, 10/100 out.
Cat5 from the switch to patch panel and from the wall to the desktops.
Cat5e in the ceilings.
Powervault 740 would top out at 7MB/s over fiber.
Snapserver topped out at 3MB/s (ugh) (10/100)
Eventually got a pogolinux box ~10MB/s (Gb copper on 100Mbit {sigh})
Added a powerconnect switch (5224?) and while not the best, added an undeniable boost, and a strange loss:
Cat6 on the Gb copper cabable machine's patch panel and wall connection (cat5e still in place).
Added a fiber link from stacked powervault's switch to powerconnect switch.
Gb fiber on pogo box to 5224(?)
Snapservers = same (no suprise there)
740 dropped to 5MB/s
Pogolinux box = 38MB/s average, 48MB/s sustained.
(samba 3.02, 32Kb buffers seems to be the sweet spot with 2k/xp desktops)
Overkill?
Depends on you "average users" and infrastructure doesn't it?
And there's always going to be a bottleneck usually in the order of: user, desktop, sysadmin (naaah), network, server.
I agree with you, 10Gb is a solution, to a problem I don't really have, yet. The problem in need of a solution is SMRF (Storage, More, Redundant, Faster).
Sigh.
maybe even Gentoo's porthole.
Gah, I had this image of Beavis/Butthead in a thinkgeek type shirt screaming: "I am PORTHOLIO".
Uh-huh-huh...huhuhuh.
As the sys admin for a GIS lab, I was curious and clicked the link, only to be amused to see:
2004-05-OSS-Briefing.doc
Heh, funny.
(Replying instead of modding...hit this wall before and HTH)
.4 and .5 when it comes to stability.
.6 just seemed to go into la-la land after 2 days, where .5 would be fine for 2+ weeks w/o incident.
.msf files (index files of mailbox stores), next snyc or folder click it will regenerate them. .3 to .5)
.7 just rocks, fast, sync support...and my boss, the EX-Outbreak Express user just loves the way Tb *ASKS* what app to open attachments with.
0.6, IMO, pales in comparison to
I leave my work machine on all the time to filter mail, so sync support was awesome, but
Oh, and a bit of info for those having problems with missing messages and "upgrade blues" or general wierdness:
in your profile, find and move/delete all the
(happend to me twice going from
Another bit of info for the person asking about sig's in email: make a text file, and tools -> options, click on account, and check the "attach this sig box", and, naturally, attach the text file.
While you are there, if you have several different accounts, go to smtp at the bottom and add different email servers you use, and attach them to the appropriate account...lest you get the dreaded "Relaying denied" gripe messages.
Tbird
She told me that was the best thing for her, as she gets tif, shp, ppt, and various other office and gis formats and OE just drove her nuts taking that control away.
No more OE...YAY!!
Oh, but one outlook user...grrr.
Will it consider software in directories that have a GPL license to be a virus?
Will it consider the device driver i wrote for an old graphics card to be a virus?
Will it consider IBM's web based office productivity suite a virus?
Am I the only one who read that with the "It puts the lotion in the basket" tone of voice?
Took me a second to realize "it" was the MSAV.
Yeah, I'm tired...sorry.
what are the benefits of using firefox and thunderbird over using the normal mozilla?
.6 has syncronization support, which is great when I leave my mail up at work, and can sync at home without clicking a dozen folders, waiting 1/2 a minute between each folder.
Mainly speed, IME, due to less integration.
It is personal preference.
I like seperate apps, VS, Integrate everything to each other.
That, and thunderbird
Tho, I'd like a "sync now" button.
Not sure about mozilla, but firefox:
in the address bar do "about:config"
Filter out for the word "turbo"
Should be only one thing. Set to true.
Problem solved, sadly this was not announced nor spread around...I spent hours digging for this gem.
I've left FF minimized for 2+ hours and it is back up in about 3 seconds on an Xp 1800.
Hope this helps.
You are taking away money from the competition, and putting ads on a page that most people ignore anyway.
Exactly, and *IF* he were smart he'd be using Mozilla/Firefox and (*gasp*) blocking ads.
And is linking to a site on
Sheesh.
old farts who spread outdated information.
Good thing I just used my mod points, so I can reply for a good number of "old farts".
STFU, noob.
Or, Byte me.
*G*
Out in the professional world we do pay for everything.
/me is kicked in the shins under the table.
We do?
OW....errr, yeah, we DO.
Really.
After all we are professionals.
Yup, that "b" us...pro-fess-see-O-nals.
(note: my campus has a CLA. Similar to CYA... nope, no coincidence there)
What is PD linux, you ask?
It is Paper Disk linux.
Why is it so special...
It is a roll your own distro.
Bah-dum ching!!
But do they run linux?
Technically, Yes...or is it the other way around?
I've got one of pogolinux's Storageware devices, running RH AS3 (versus the RH9 it came "with"...got the disks 3 days after the device. No matter, now).
Anyway, this thing has 32 of those *BRIGHT* blue led's...16 are constatntly lit when the drives are powered, and the other 16 during access. With the drives all in raid 5, you can imagine the flashing.
Also imagine the noise of 4 (guess on my part so far) 5K to 7.2Krpm fans going off. Yikes.
The only other colors are a green led for network access, and IIRC amber for power.
What still amuses me about this box is that the power and reset buttons are the size of #2 pencil leads. I suppose it reduces accidental resets/power offs, but the buttons being smaller then all the led's is quite funny/amusing.
In hindsight, everything is preventable and clear. ....pause....
Why, even this comment could be prevented.
(clicks submit, instead of preview)
Whoops.
Would you rather have a half-finished OS be released?
Hummm...Judging by your user #, I'd say "You're new here, aren't you", isn't quite the response I should use.
So, in its stead I'll ask:
And the difference would be?