So much for my mod points in this discussion...and no I'm not smoking crack, I just have rather disjointed thought processes.
Anywhoo,
I just hope LOTR is not going to turn into something like the Aliens series where: You have the original. Then the directors cut Then the Extended Edition Then the Anniv. Edition Then the Extended Special Edition.
Quite frankly, everything after the directors cut just made Aliens into an even longer movie.
The thing about the Directors Cut version it *The movie made *PERFECT* sense if you'd seen the first one.
I got LOTR as a gift --*coff*bullshit*coff*-- for my son, knowing, that this extended edition was coming a few more months down the road.
When I have extra income (/sound of coffee being snerked thru noses) I might get this set...or, heck, borrow it from a friend who does. I've got a few who were waiting for *this specific* edition.
(/Off topic whining) What was it with the flamebait mods today? I got one for *my* opinion + experience...{shrug} (/off topic whine off)
On topic: Excellent to get a JFS on OSX, finally. I let out a "whoo-hooo", but what do you want from a geek. Eh?
The only thing no one has considered/mentioned is that to gain that speed hit back, you'd probably put in a faster scsi drive, right?
Some people might recall that Adaptec has/is/was dropping mac support (boo!) and while I have an ATTO card in my Mac attached to an 18G Cheeta, well, OS9 does quite well on it...OSX does a less than thrilling job {speedwise}. So far everything seems to point to OSX or its SCSI/ATTO drivers. (bummer)
Insult to injury is: {oversimplification warning} From a storagereview.com roundup says, in effect: IDE ='s write performance (workstation/home use} SCSI ='s Read performance (server/raid) Makes sense when you think about it, so it might be a good idea to get an IDE raid card and do a raid 1+0 to minimize or cancel out the speed hit and keep some integrity.
With so many "Good Things (TM)" coming to OSX, the computing world is going to get very interesting, I think.
(/me crosses fingers for Power4 Macs...now THAT would be a PowerMac!) .
Reply or correct, please. Don't mod down what is *my* general experience...sheesh.
Funny thing is: I realize I should have added it is the same thing with SSE1/2 in the p3/4 series... it is there and used in Q3, as I recall, but Altivec is not used in the Mac version at all.
I ought to know, I waited for the optimized version to come out of beta for over a year.
IBM has resisted adding Altivec to its version of PPC, and Apple depends on it heavily.
True and kinda false: True, IBM resisted mainly because Altivec has prevented scaling of processor speed {i.e. the 18Months at less than 500Mhz G4's) until better fabrication came around.
IBM can *design* wonderful chips (hence the Power4) but can't fight the stubborness of Steve Jobs or the incompetant fabrication of Motorola.
And...
Apple *markets* Altivec heavily, but does not depend on it that much. There are *less* than a dozen programs with optimizations for Altivec, if that many.
Heck, the Quake 3 verson got mothballed because it was too damned difficult/buggy to program for. (I don't even want to attempt to mangle G Devine's first/last name).
"In Theory" Altivec was a Good Thing...In Practice...IT SUCKED ROCKS.
Recently I had to setup an ArcIMS (IMS = internet map server, or as I call it "Incomplete Masochistic Software") on a Windows 2000 Server.
You have your choice of IIS or Apache, and guess which one I chose? Yep, Apache.
After testing the box out, I cleared the logs (access/error) at about 3pm and left it running. Next day, I discover that less than an hour later a single IP address (204.xxx.xxx.xxx) hammered on it for 300+ hits with *both* codered and nimda and (the same ip or one in the range, I don't recall) hitting all of the default IIS directories looking for *anything*.
after DNUG's there will be the Palladium Users Groups, which will have many members the first meeting but few if any the second meeting after all of them are arrested for copyright violations for trying to listen to their MP3's while programming.
Really easy, instead of using Hotmails spam filter, I use thier "sorting filters" (or whatever they are called) and filter it all to your junkmail folder.
Add these: user of your username in the subject, because if the address is not blocked, the subject with your login name is a dead giveaway) Do the same with anything from these addresses: @msn.com @bigfoot.com @yahoo.com in fo@
Interesting that filtering mail from yahoo on hotmail gets the majority of the spam, but does it work the other way around?
Slashdot Mirror
Fenix :) )
Penix
Foenix
Pfoenix (as in price pfister the pfaucet maker)
PfuckUPhoenix (just remember, as above, the F is silent
And there are the old standbys from the browser wars:
Internet Exploiter,
Internet Exploder
(and one of my fav's)
Nutscrape.
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Why didn't they name it the GeForce5?
...errr...hey wait a minute...
Remember that company called 3DFX whose "last" card was the Voodoo5? Then a powerhouse called Nvidia took over as highend "King of the Hill".
Funny how that works, eh?
I mean it is not like Nvidia has anything to worry about with ATI taking the performance cro
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Reading from a prepared statement, a Disney spokeswoman said...
:)
I saw:
Reading from a prepaid statement, a Disney spokeswoman said...
Well, I guess it is *accurate* either way.
And I'm suprised no one brought up the charater Orbb from Quake3.
And you call yourselves geeks? {Error. Error.}
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I will concider an Apple next time I buy a computer!
And the first thougt I had was:
Hey! Apple (con) Cider
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that Word will finally get back "Reveal Codes" in some form or another?
.
Sould it be:
Please Hammer, don't hurt 'em
or
Imagine a Beowolf Cluster of these?
Nah, how about:
Please Hammer, don't imagine a Beowolf cluster of these.
(I gave up mod points for this comment? Sheesh, I must be smoking crac....errr...oops)
So much for my mod points in this discussion...and no I'm not smoking crack, I just have rather disjointed thought processes.
Anywhoo,
I just hope LOTR is not going to turn into something like the Aliens series where:
You have the original.
Then the directors cut
Then the Extended Edition
Then the Anniv. Edition
Then the Extended Special Edition.
Quite frankly, everything after the directors cut just made Aliens into an even longer movie.
The thing about the Directors Cut version it *The movie made *PERFECT* sense if you'd seen the first one.
I got LOTR as a gift --*coff*bullshit*coff*-- for my son, knowing, that this extended edition was coming a few more months down the road.
When I have extra income (/sound of coffee being snerked thru noses) I might get this set...or, heck, borrow it from a friend who does. I've got a few who were waiting for *this specific* edition.
Errr...decisions, decisions....
Perhaps Steve Jobs is afraid of Radeon Leaks?
Or was that Radon?
Oh, Wait...
(/Off topic whining)
What was it with the flamebait mods today? I got one for *my* opinion + experience...{shrug}
(/off topic whine off)
On topic:
Excellent to get a JFS on OSX, finally. I let out a "whoo-hooo", but what do you want from a geek. Eh?
The only thing no one has considered/mentioned is that to gain that speed hit back, you'd probably put in a faster scsi drive, right?
Some people might recall that Adaptec has/is/was dropping mac support (boo!) and while I have an ATTO card in my Mac attached to an 18G Cheeta, well, OS9 does quite well on it...OSX does a less than thrilling job {speedwise}.
So far everything seems to point to OSX or its SCSI/ATTO drivers. (bummer)
Insult to injury is:
{oversimplification warning}
From a storagereview.com roundup says, in effect:
IDE ='s write performance (workstation/home use}
SCSI ='s Read performance (server/raid)
Makes sense when you think about it, so it might be a good idea to get an IDE raid card and do a raid 1+0 to minimize or cancel out the speed hit and keep some integrity.
With so many "Good Things (TM)" coming to OSX, the computing world is going to get very interesting, I think.
(/me crosses fingers for Power4 Macs...now THAT would be a PowerMac!)
.
Flamebait?
Reply or correct, please.
Don't mod down what is *my* general experience...sheesh.
Funny thing is: I realize I should have added it is the same thing with SSE1/2 in the p3/4 series... it is there and used in Q3, as I recall, but Altivec is not used in the Mac version at all.
I ought to know, I waited for the optimized version to come out of beta for over a year.
Oh, well, whatever.
IBM has resisted adding Altivec to its version of PPC, and Apple depends on it heavily.
True and kinda false:
True, IBM resisted mainly because Altivec has prevented scaling of processor speed {i.e. the 18Months at less than 500Mhz G4's) until better fabrication came around.
IBM can *design* wonderful chips (hence the Power4) but can't fight the stubborness of Steve Jobs or the incompetant fabrication of Motorola.
And...
Apple *markets* Altivec heavily, but does not depend on it that much. There are *less* than a dozen programs with optimizations for Altivec, if that many.
Heck, the Quake 3 verson got mothballed because it was too damned difficult/buggy to program for. (I don't even want to attempt to mangle G Devine's first/last name).
"In Theory" Altivec was a Good Thing...In Practice...IT SUCKED ROCKS.
IMO, IME, YMMV
I'm sure Mick would be the first to say "Nothing in life is 'FreeJack', you gotta work for it".
(Heh, could not resist the movie ref, I just got the DVD a few weeks ago for $6 )
I can see it now:
Note on a students assignment:
"Learn to FSCKING spell!!!1!11!".
Oh, the irony.
Recently I had to setup an ArcIMS (IMS = internet map server, or as I call it "Incomplete Masochistic Software") on a Windows 2000 Server.
You have your choice of IIS or Apache, and guess which one I chose? Yep, Apache.
After testing the box out, I cleared the logs (access/error) at about 3pm and left it running.
Next day, I discover that less than an hour later a single IP address (204.xxx.xxx.xxx) hammered on it for 300+ hits with *both* codered and nimda and (the same ip or one in the range, I don't recall) hitting all of the default IIS directories looking for *anything*.
I chuckled for a good half hour after that.
Beware of greeks bearing .gifts.
I suppose I should have qualified that with IWT as the SGT/Officer = IWT and the Agent as the RIAA.
Sheesh, mod, whatever happened to "Concentrate on *promoting* not *demoting*.
Read my sig.
.
(I'll go put myself away now ;)
Heh, yeah, now *that's* something you can be arrested for in some states...and elected in others.
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All I could think was: /obigatory Matrix ref
"If you give me any of that juris-my-diction crap, you can cram it up your ass".
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This is now on the point of being abandoned because so many DVD manufacturers have deliberately undermined the system.
Any systerm that can't be overpowered can be undermined.
If it can't be undermined, it can be circumvented.
If it can't be circumvented you can overpower or undermine it.
When all else fails, cheat the system.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Sun Tzu would be proud, I think.
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after DNUG's there will be the Palladium Users Groups, which will have many members the first meeting but few if any the second meeting after all of them are arrested for copyright violations for trying to listen to their MP3's while programming.
D'OH!!!
New Orleans is known for booze, sex and debauchery.
:)
You think they would have chosen BSD.
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Today's MacHall
Agreed, part of the reason I got into Sys Admin'ing was a natural talent for it and enjoyment.
Money came secondary. {insert: "gasps"}
quote:
if you take a job you don't like just because you're promised big bucks, then you're a whore.
Agreed, but face it: We all whore ourselves, the question is; when to change pimps.
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how long will it take for the mount jokes to get old (assuming they keep a simple structures)?
Ok, mount the pilots...
(snicker)
Now the passengers...
(giggle)
Now mount the stewardesses!!!
(uh-huh-huh-huuhhh...heh, he said "mount").
Really easy, instead of using Hotmails spam filter, I use thier "sorting filters" (or whatever they are called) and filter it all to your junkmail folder.
n fo@
Add these:
user of your username in the subject, because if the address is not blocked, the subject with your login name is a dead giveaway)
Do the same with anything from these addresses:
@msn.com
@bigfoot.com
@yahoo.com
i
Interesting that filtering mail from yahoo on hotmail gets the majority of the spam, but does it work the other way around?