In a linked article in the article, Charles mentions that Linux is for "dorks".
Every time I read that "Linux is behind, incapable" or whatever, I take note that they don't understand shit. First off, Linux is a small part of the Desktop setup. The other thing I note is I'm sitting here just happy on my Desktop running Gentoo. It does everything I want [which is more than WinXP can deliver anyways] and it didn't cost me a dime other than time to set it up.
It's good that people are catching MSFT in their lies and poor behaviour but for every MSFT person saying "Linux is bad" there is just another person using an OSS kernel with OSS userland tools scratching their heads. And in the end it's really just that. Some MSFT guy saying something. Sure there are people who buy it without question but there are still more that are aware of it and people taking action on it.
It's just far far far too late. I mean all the negative press in the world won't make the millions of OSS users switch. And as long as there is 1 OSS user out there, it won't die.
So go ahead MSFT, act all desperate marketting and FUD'ing against OSS. You could be better served by actually delivering stuff of value. It sucks that an OS has lost "value" [in light of Linux or BSD + OSS userland] but that's it. No clever amount of marketting will make something that has no value all of a sudden have value.
I highly doubt that. RSA does have a value over LTC. They have tons of engineers to help review and audit the code. Look at my last few release. Yes, I've added new features or improved code but some of them are bug fixes for things that shouldn't have been bugs in the first place.
Sony [specifically SCEA] chose LTC because it was cheaper to use the code and audit the parts they were using than to license BSAFE. [my code was free at that time, it wasn't public domain like it is now].
But the point is, they wanted the logo in the manual to make sure that the customer would recognize the name.
Look at the manual for the game "Champions of Norrath". See the BSAFE logo in it?
Now run strings on the binary [on the DVD] and compare it to LibTomCrypt v0.62 [if you can find a copy, heck I don't even have a copy, I do have a copy of v0.14 which has the strings].
Point is, they used LibTomCrypt to write their SSL library but they put a RSA BSAFE logo in the manual.:-)
Ok, I have a decent pair of headphones [40mm driver, 20-20Khz response, etc] and even with all that because of masking you don't really get a nice picture of the spectrum on say a loud train or plane. A nice TGV is quiet enough for it to be ok though:-)
But even with super duper headphones if you have 30-50dB masking accross the spectrum it won't matter. You'll get a few bits of resolution and that's about it.
That said though, while walking down the street it's probably best that you're not watching [continously] a 1" screen. I don't know where you live but walking around downtown Toronto is not something you do with a distraction like that.
hey hey hey there they have a 2px caption at the bottom that clearly states "simulated screen only" what more do you want from their advertisement? upfront honestly? Yeah next you'll want products engineered with the customer in mind!!!
Stupid hippies...
Personally I don't see the appeal of it. Not like you can really watch TV while walking around downtown... and expect to survive. On the bus/train it's too noisy [and honestly you don't always get a seat] and on airplanes they tell you to shut it off cuz it could "send the plane up the bomb!"
Well that and watching TV on a 1" screen is just pathetic. At least airplanes have 5" [or so] screens in the back of the head rest thingy...
If there was any sense of justice the government would just pay OSS developers to write something that at the end of the day was public domain open to scrutiny.
But of course $$$ trumps all and if Diebold can't make MILLIONS off faulty voting boxes then the commies win!!!
You do realize the 2600 came out when people DIDN'T OWN personal systems [by which I assume you mean a PC].
The point of a console though is to be an appliance. My desktop PC is a work station not a toy. Even though it can do 3D crap [has a 6600 in it] I work at it. My xbox and PS2 are toys and I use them to play games.
The 360 totally misses this point and is trying to be a desktop PC. Be a fucking appliance.
You don't see patches and upgrades for your microwave oven do ya? hehehehe
192kbps with a decent codec [like lame with q=2] produces sufficiently high quality audio as to be good on a good stereo setup [e.g. one where you can often hear distortions].
At 128kbps you could cram 133 minutes in 125MiB, though with FAT overhead you're likely limited to about 121MiB which is 129 minutes.
128kbps though wouldn't be good enough for most music on a sufficently responsive stereo. Maybe good enough for headphones in on a plane or bus:-)
It was really bad. One line in it [paraphrasing from memory]
"I'm not like that type [talking about murdering others], I'm not a gamer!"
It basically played on all the latest buzzwords and press. I know it's supposed to be fictional but they're clearly playing off recent events in the news and the least they could do is not show something as ridiculous as that.
They might as well have a story line [or a thousand] where some robe wearing muslim is planning to blow up an office complex or something:-)
You use your car everyday, you SHOULD know how it works. That lets you know when things are broken and when [and what] needs fixing.
Like being screwed by some crooked mechanic who insists you need something else fix? Want to be able to catch them in a lie? Want to know if your car is acting up and what?
Sure you can't be an expert at everything but if you use a computer everyday it won't kill you to know more about it. That way when your Dell representative tells you you need Windows and "Intel Pentium four technology with hyperthreading (tm)" you can tell him to suck cock because you know why you don't need that.
That said, we are kinda in an "information age" even air-duct repairmen use computers on a daily basis. It pays to know how to make the best use of the technology you buy.
Do you need to buy an expensive DB license or will an OSS DB work fine? Do you need to buy windows licenses for all your boxes or will a Linux distro do fine? etc, etc, etc.
I've install Gentoo on a Via C3 [about the slowest modern processor for x86 available] and it was ready in a day. That includes Gnome, mplayer, apache and all the default userland tools.
Maybe you're just an asshat griefer exagerating claims to make yourself sound so smart. Building programs isn't that hard since emerge does ALL the work of configuring, building and installing for you.
Comparing RPM to Portage is just lame. RPM doesn't handle dependencies properly, it's slow as fuck and just error prone. Portage has it's occasional ebuild screwups but it works A LOT MORE than it fails. Given that I've built laptops, desktops and servers with Gentoo I'd say it's not that hard to setup nor use.
Why don't they just use a proper format instead of opening up their crap. $10 bucks says somehow key parts of the spec will be "missing". By accident of course.
Granted, but GTA, GT, Tony Hawk and ATV are much more fun [and less insulting] games already out for the PSP.
Where are the games for the DS that aren't 13 minutes long [*I'm looking at you Episode III*] or really childish [*cough*The Urbz*cough*]. Where are the good shooters or quality driving games?
Speaking of which where is the Zelda and Final Fantasy ports? A nice 3d RPG for the DS would be a WELCOMED addition to the title lineup.
See the frustration? Good platform, crap games.
By time the good games come out I'll be going to buy a replacement DS since this one would have worn out from all the fun I'm having with Mario64!!!!
Whatever. All I'm saying is the DS has been out for nearly a year now and the best game [technically] is Nintendogs.
That says something about the platform: LOSER.
Sure AW is fun [I have a copy] and so is mario64 but big deal. AW on the DS looks like AW on the GBA with the only diff being better multiplayer and the DS battles [which are not really that fun]. Mario64 is just a "get started game" and isn't really that much fun [I bought it so I'd have something to run on my DS].
Now look at the titles for the PSP. We have GTA, Grand Tourismo, Tony Hawk, a few FPSes, a puzzle game or two, NHL2k5, etc. See the difference?
The sad thing is if Nintendo licensed out developer kits more reasonably you'd probably see a lot more titles out there from people who can't afford to start a 1,000 person company with millions in the bank [as Nintendo requires]. A port of Quake would certainly be a welcome title for instance:-)
If Dell pre-installed gentoo on your box like they do Windows why couldn't you use it?
That said installing Gentoo is not hard and knowing how EMPOWERS you to make choices. Like "do I want to pay for windows or learn to use tools that are more recent and free?"
First off, use a recent kernel [and not Fedora]. I use NFSv3 from a vanilla 2.6.x kernel with Gentoo installed userland tools. I've never had a problem mounting or accessing items over an NFS share. I have had problems in mixed gentoo/fedora networks but that's only because the fedora kernel is outdated and patched up the wazoo. Putting a vanilla kernel in there fixes most problems.
What sort of "deficiencies" have you noticed?
As for the throughput... 28MiB/sec sustained is about the max you'll get from a RAID-5 with 7200RPM drives. Sorry to burst your bubble but it's not an NFS or gige problem [specially considering that's only 25% of the pipe bandwidth]. If you think a 7200RPM drive can sustain more than 28MiB/sec you're clearly ignorant of HD performance figures. A SCSI drive would do better but only because the RPM is beyond the 10K range.
You're just being difficult for the sake of trolling obiously because nothing you've said actually can be tested or verified for accuracy.
Good for you. The rest of us like to eat. We work for money.
With a philosophy like that you won't be doing much of that in the future. Look at how much vendor lockin we already have [re: laptops and tools written only for win32]. People like you who feed these lame business models are your own worst enemy.
Have you asked your vendor for Linux versions of your tools? I'll bet it's never crossed your mind.
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In a linked article in the article, Charles mentions that Linux is for "dorks".
Every time I read that "Linux is behind, incapable" or whatever, I take note that they don't understand shit. First off, Linux is a small part of the Desktop setup. The other thing I note is I'm sitting here just happy on my Desktop running Gentoo. It does everything I want [which is more than WinXP can deliver anyways] and it didn't cost me a dime other than time to set it up.
It's good that people are catching MSFT in their lies and poor behaviour but for every MSFT person saying "Linux is bad" there is just another person using an OSS kernel with OSS userland tools scratching their heads. And in the end it's really just that. Some MSFT guy saying something. Sure there are people who buy it without question but there are still more that are aware of it and people taking action on it.
It's just far far far too late. I mean all the negative press in the world won't make the millions of OSS users switch. And as long as there is 1 OSS user out there, it won't die.
So go ahead MSFT, act all desperate marketting and FUD'ing against OSS. You could be better served by actually delivering stuff of value. It sucks that an OS has lost "value" [in light of Linux or BSD + OSS userland] but that's it. No clever amount of marketting will make something that has no value all of a sudden have value.
Tom
I highly doubt that. RSA does have a value over LTC. They have tons of engineers to help review and audit the code. Look at my last few release. Yes, I've added new features or improved code but some of them are bug fixes for things that shouldn't have been bugs in the first place.
Sony [specifically SCEA] chose LTC because it was cheaper to use the code and audit the parts they were using than to license BSAFE. [my code was free at that time, it wasn't public domain like it is now].
But the point is, they wanted the logo in the manual to make sure that the customer would recognize the name.
Tom
Look at the manual for the game "Champions of Norrath". See the BSAFE logo in it?
:-)
Now run strings on the binary [on the DVD] and compare it to LibTomCrypt v0.62 [if you can find a copy, heck I don't even have a copy, I do have a copy of v0.14 which has the strings].
Point is, they used LibTomCrypt to write their SSL library but they put a RSA BSAFE logo in the manual.
Tom
Ok, I have a decent pair of headphones [40mm driver, 20-20Khz response, etc] and even with all that because of masking you don't really get a nice picture of the spectrum on say a loud train or plane. A nice TGV is quiet enough for it to be ok though :-)
But even with super duper headphones if you have 30-50dB masking accross the spectrum it won't matter. You'll get a few bits of resolution and that's about it.
That said though, while walking down the street it's probably best that you're not watching [continously] a 1" screen. I don't know where you live but walking around downtown Toronto is not something you do with a distraction like that.
Tom
hey hey hey there they have a 2px caption at the bottom that clearly states "simulated screen only" what more do you want from their advertisement? upfront honestly? Yeah next you'll want products engineered with the customer in mind!!!
... and expect to survive. On the bus/train it's too noisy [and honestly you don't always get a seat] and on airplanes they tell you to shut it off cuz it could "send the plane up the bomb!"
Stupid hippies...
Personally I don't see the appeal of it. Not like you can really watch TV while walking around downtown
Well that and watching TV on a 1" screen is just pathetic. At least airplanes have 5" [or so] screens in the back of the head rest thingy...
Tom
It doesn't have to go that far. If all of the backbone peers have super uber fast connections that alone can speed things up.
100s of millions of people at 5Mbps == a heck of a lot of load.
Though yeah, Gbps to the home would be nice...
Tom
The L1 cache on a P4 has a latency of 2 [or 3] which yields one 16 byte read every 2 cycles or about 1.6Ghz * 128 = 204.8Gbps :-)
j/k
Tom
$$$
If there was any sense of justice the government would just pay OSS developers to write something that at the end of the day was public domain open to scrutiny.
But of course $$$ trumps all and if Diebold can't make MILLIONS off faulty voting boxes then the commies win!!!
Tom
Because the advertiser wouldn't get your phone number [presumably].
I can see this getting abused though...
Tom
Striped storage? I could swear there is a RAID mode for this ;-)
Tom
You do realize the 2600 came out when people DIDN'T OWN personal systems [by which I assume you mean a PC].
The point of a console though is to be an appliance. My desktop PC is a work station not a toy. Even though it can do 3D crap [has a 6600 in it] I work at it. My xbox and PS2 are toys and I use them to play games.
The 360 totally misses this point and is trying to be a desktop PC. Be a fucking appliance.
You don't see patches and upgrades for your microwave oven do ya? hehehehe
Tom
You can get PS2 games to lock up but those are game problems [e.g. state engine faults]. Similarly I have locked up xbox [original games].
But those crashes are VERY rare and most likely helped by the environment [e.g. DVD can't read a file the program needs].
Tom
But text is soooo boring.
:-)
I mean why use text emails when you can use 100s of colourful and usually non-portable fonts to liven up your communication
Tom
Yeah but how long are the songs? If the average track is like 4 minutes that's 112 minutes and would fit with 128kbps encoding.
Now they have to choose, do we want stereo or really good sound? Cuz mono 128kbps would sound decent if you don't mind it being one channel...
Tom
192kbps * 74mins == 104.06MiB
:-)
128MB == 125MiB
192kbps with a decent codec [like lame with q=2] produces sufficiently high quality audio as to be good on a good stereo setup [e.g. one where you can often hear distortions].
At 128kbps you could cram 133 minutes in 125MiB, though with FAT overhead you're likely limited to about 121MiB which is 129 minutes.
128kbps though wouldn't be good enough for most music on a sufficently responsive stereo. Maybe good enough for headphones in on a plane or bus
Tom
It was really bad. One line in it [paraphrasing from memory]
:-)
"I'm not like that type [talking about murdering others], I'm not a gamer!"
It basically played on all the latest buzzwords and press. I know it's supposed to be fictional but they're clearly playing off recent events in the news and the least they could do is not show something as ridiculous as that.
They might as well have a story line [or a thousand] where some robe wearing muslim is planning to blow up an office complex or something
Tom
You use your car everyday, you SHOULD know how it works. That lets you know when things are broken and when [and what] needs fixing.
Like being screwed by some crooked mechanic who insists you need something else fix? Want to be able to catch them in a lie? Want to know if your car is acting up and what?
Sure you can't be an expert at everything but if you use a computer everyday it won't kill you to know more about it. That way when your Dell representative tells you you need Windows and "Intel Pentium four technology with hyperthreading (tm)" you can tell him to suck cock because you know why you don't need that.
That said, we are kinda in an "information age" even air-duct repairmen use computers on a daily basis. It pays to know how to make the best use of the technology you buy.
Do you need to buy an expensive DB license or will an OSS DB work fine? Do you need to buy windows licenses for all your boxes or will a Linux distro do fine? etc, etc, etc.
Tom
Seven days?
I've install Gentoo on a Via C3 [about the slowest modern processor for x86 available] and it was ready in a day. That includes Gnome, mplayer, apache and all the default userland tools.
Maybe you're just an asshat griefer exagerating claims to make yourself sound so smart. Building programs isn't that hard since emerge does ALL the work of configuring, building and installing for you.
Comparing RPM to Portage is just lame. RPM doesn't handle dependencies properly, it's slow as fuck and just error prone. Portage has it's occasional ebuild screwups but it works A LOT MORE than it fails. Given that I've built laptops, desktops and servers with Gentoo I'd say it's not that hard to setup nor use.
Tom
Say who?
Gentoo: boot => X11 => KDE
Ubuntu: boot => X11 => KDE
What the fuck is a command line?
You realize when I said "pre-installed" I meant setup for the user. [setup once and ghost it]
And fuck this apathy. Learn how computers work. Empower yourself. Stop being a sheep. Beheheheheh!
Tom
0WN3D!
Nice comment.
Why don't they just use a proper format instead of opening up their crap. $10 bucks says somehow key parts of the spec will be "missing". By accident of course.
Tom
Granted, but GTA, GT, Tony Hawk and ATV are much more fun [and less insulting] games already out for the PSP.
Where are the games for the DS that aren't 13 minutes long [*I'm looking at you Episode III*] or really childish [*cough*The Urbz*cough*]. Where are the good shooters or quality driving games?
Speaking of which where is the Zelda and Final Fantasy ports? A nice 3d RPG for the DS would be a WELCOMED addition to the title lineup.
See the frustration? Good platform, crap games.
By time the good games come out I'll be going to buy a replacement DS since this one would have worn out from all the fun I'm having with Mario64!!!!
Tom
Whatever. All I'm saying is the DS has been out for nearly a year now and the best game [technically] is Nintendogs.
:-)
That says something about the platform: LOSER.
Sure AW is fun [I have a copy] and so is mario64 but big deal. AW on the DS looks like AW on the GBA with the only diff being better multiplayer and the DS battles [which are not really that fun]. Mario64 is just a "get started game" and isn't really that much fun [I bought it so I'd have something to run on my DS].
Now look at the titles for the PSP. We have GTA, Grand Tourismo, Tony Hawk, a few FPSes, a puzzle game or two, NHL2k5, etc. See the difference?
The sad thing is if Nintendo licensed out developer kits more reasonably you'd probably see a lot more titles out there from people who can't afford to start a 1,000 person company with millions in the bank [as Nintendo requires]. A port of Quake would certainly be a welcome title for instance
Tom
How is it unusable?
If Dell pre-installed gentoo on your box like they do Windows why couldn't you use it?
That said installing Gentoo is not hard and knowing how EMPOWERS you to make choices. Like "do I want to pay for windows or learn to use tools that are more recent and free?"
Tom
Troll much?
... 28MiB/sec sustained is about the max you'll get from a RAID-5 with 7200RPM drives. Sorry to burst your bubble but it's not an NFS or gige problem [specially considering that's only 25% of the pipe bandwidth]. If you think a 7200RPM drive can sustain more than 28MiB/sec you're clearly ignorant of HD performance figures. A SCSI drive would do better but only because the RPM is beyond the 10K range.
First off, use a recent kernel [and not Fedora]. I use NFSv3 from a vanilla 2.6.x kernel with Gentoo installed userland tools. I've never had a problem mounting or accessing items over an NFS share. I have had problems in mixed gentoo/fedora networks but that's only because the fedora kernel is outdated and patched up the wazoo. Putting a vanilla kernel in there fixes most problems.
What sort of "deficiencies" have you noticed?
As for the throughput
You're just being difficult for the sake of trolling obiously because nothing you've said actually can be tested or verified for accuracy.
Tom
Make your tools portable or I walk
Good for you. The rest of us like to eat. We work for money.
With a philosophy like that you won't be doing much of that in the future. Look at how much vendor lockin we already have [re: laptops and tools written only for win32]. People like you who feed these lame business models are your own worst enemy.
Have you asked your vendor for Linux versions of your tools? I'll bet it's never crossed your mind.
Tom