Good point. How can parent be modded +5 Insightful (which it most certainly wasn't) where my original post (grandparent) wasn't touched. I guess we know where the Slashdot crowd stands on the War.
Are you one of those types who think we "deserved" Sept. 11? Innocent people die in War, sure. That's a reality of War. But as others have said, do you really believe that our soldiers kill innocent people on purpose? Give me a break.
I wish that the Terrorists believed that war wasn't worth fighting. I also wish that they didn't believe that killing innocents was the best way to further their cause.
Exactly. And I can't tell you how many changes in FC and RH kernels/libraries completely break the system. You've got to back out to the "real" versions to get regular apps to build properly. The FC releases definitely need some real quality control.
Panther may have defrag on the fly, but that doesn't change the fact that HFS+ sucks. It corrupts itself under heavy use and is generally a pile of crap when compared with modern filesystems (NTFS, HPFS, ext3, etc.).
I have an HP OfficeJet 6100. Both the printing AND scanning works great under Linux.
http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/suplist.shtml
I've had a MUCH easier time installing printers, scanners, and sound cards under Linux than on any Windows machine. Just buy hardware that's well-supported and you're set. Most of the hardware that's well-supported on Linux is better-quality hardware anyway, so it's a win-win situation.
No. I've had CD-RW disks go bad after 1 year. I only buy Mitsui CD-R disks and I have some that are six years old that work great. Only buy Mitsui and you won't have any problems.
Also, use a good burner like a Plextor. Cheap burners make poor-quality disks.
I don't believe that you've been a Macintosh user for very long. Expert Macintosh users reformat their hard drives every year or so to be on the safe side. At my office, in a server environment, the filesystems on the server become corrupted regularly and for no reason. I've used Macintoshes since 1987 and I can tell you from my experience that the HFS and HFS+ filesystems are extremely vulnerable to corruption.
That's one more reason why it's foolish of Apple to build on the aweful HFS+ filesystem. This is Unix -- we no longer need to store resource and data forks separately on the filesystem!
I've had exactly the same problem. I can reproduce the problem if I have at least two SCSI devices transmitting data simultaneously at high speeds. If I'm using my SCSI scanner and compiling a few apps, or if I'm burning a CD and try to scan.
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Good point. How can parent be modded +5 Insightful (which it most certainly wasn't) where my original post (grandparent) wasn't touched. I guess we know where the Slashdot crowd stands on the War.
Are you one of those types who think we "deserved" Sept. 11? Innocent people die in War, sure. That's a reality of War. But as others have said, do you really believe that our soldiers kill innocent people on purpose? Give me a break.
I assume that you mean "moot", not "mute".
But then again, you might not mean that either:
"Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)"
Moot Moot, a.
Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided;
debatable; mooted.
Moot is an oft-misused word. It's best to avoid it entirely.
I wish that the Terrorists believed that war wasn't worth fighting. I also wish that they didn't believe that killing innocents was the best way to further their cause.
Exactly. And I can't tell you how many changes in FC and RH kernels/libraries completely break the system. You've got to back out to the "real" versions to get regular apps to build properly. The FC releases definitely need some real quality control.
Right on! Mod parent up. Now can we have some interesting articles on Slashdot for a change?
Mod parent up!
I'd mod it up myself if I wasn't already meta-moderated to hell.
Panther may have defrag on the fly, but that doesn't change the fact that HFS+ sucks. It corrupts itself under heavy use and is generally a pile of crap when compared with modern filesystems (NTFS, HPFS, ext3, etc.).
I have an HP OfficeJet 6100. Both the printing AND scanning works great under Linux.
http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/suplist.shtml
I've had a MUCH easier time installing printers, scanners, and sound cards under Linux than on any Windows machine. Just buy hardware that's well-supported and you're set. Most of the hardware that's well-supported on Linux is better-quality hardware anyway, so it's a win-win situation.
No. I've had CD-RW disks go bad after 1 year. I only buy Mitsui CD-R disks and I have some that are six years old that work great. Only buy Mitsui and you won't have any problems.
Also, use a good burner like a Plextor. Cheap burners make poor-quality disks.
I don't believe that you've been a Macintosh user for very long. Expert Macintosh users reformat their hard drives every year or so to be on the safe side. At my office, in a server environment, the filesystems on the server become corrupted regularly and for no reason. I've used Macintoshes since 1987 and I can tell you from my experience that the HFS and HFS+ filesystems are extremely vulnerable to corruption.
That's one more reason why it's foolish of Apple to build on the aweful HFS+ filesystem. This is Unix -- we no longer need to store resource and data forks separately on the filesystem!
I've had exactly the same problem. I can reproduce the problem if I have at least two SCSI devices transmitting data simultaneously at high speeds. If I'm using my SCSI scanner and compiling a few apps, or if I'm burning a CD and try to scan.