The difference is that you can get a cheap shit PC for a really low price. This is unfortunatly what a lot of people buy, only to end up with a lot of problems due to lack of quality. Even so, if you wanted to spend money on a good quality computer, which wasn't going to become obsolete (since OSX only gets faster with every release), then an emac/imac might be a good choice.
Even if I build an uber PC I think I'd have a hard time reaching the price of the average desktop Mac. The only place that apple really shines is with the iBook. The iBook hands down spanks all other laptops as far as quality/price.
For a company I would think that it makes sense. Where I work we continually hire VERY bad employees. Getting them through the system, getting them acclimated, only to find something very wrong, then going through the process of getting rid of them is a huge burden on the company. Now of course this is all because of the idiots in management who hire these people, but what do I know?
Seems to me that if I contract someone and they prove that they would make a decent employee, then by all means hire them. Think of it as a sort of test drive for people. I'm not saying that you're not right, but I can see why a company would do it.
As a BSD user I'd say it's certainly better off that Linux came along. Linux is just a kernel, and as such allows a Linux distro to be a full fledged playground as far as the system goes, allowing for a lot of customization - it's also why so many distros are a total mess. I wonder if BSD would have the simplicity and elegance that it does if it had so many people constantly trying to screw with everything. RPM for BSD? I don't even want to go there.
But then again maybe someone would have just forked a BSD kernel and stuffed it in the place where the Linux kernel sits and we'd still have Linux, just not started by Linus. Guess we'll never know.
Linus: "Oh I don't know. Doesn't really matter. I just like to code."
Hmm... he's got a kid so something doesn't add up there =P
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Because we need more than one VCR. We must have at least 2-3 so we can constantly pirate EVERYTHING. I have to copy every movie I puchase 3-4 times and sell them to friends who are more than willing to pay half price for a total piece of shit copy. It's just like the MPAA says!
I can't really stand up and cheer for an engineer who doesn't even use his own stuff.
Just because your job describes that you design something, doesn't mean that you can use it. If I work for a graphics card company am I going to buy every card I work on? I replace one every 2-3 years, not every 1-2 months. How often do you replace something like a printer? Hell can you even afford to purchase the stuff you engineer? maybe not.
"Eating your own dogfood" is a good concept, but it really has to happen starting at the management level. Giving your employees stuff to test and work out the bugs is a great way to get REAL feedback on a product, but this means that management also has to be receptive of that input. If you go out and buy something that's already in production, then it's already too late, and I highly doubt that management will listen to what you have to say anyhow.
I think he's referring to the heat pipes used to transfer heat away from the cpu via a radiator on the exhaust fan. It's actually a good way to get a quiet computer since it's MUCH easier to get a quiet 80mm fan than one for a CPU heatsink. My main issue with them is the fact that I'm not really sure that one or two millimeters is enough space for the graphics card to breathe.
Most computer users are probably aware of the fact that they use windows, and are also probably familiar with Bill Gates' association with windows - so naturally I'd think he'd be a good target for people signing up bogus addresses and such. I doubt anyone else would be collectivly as high on the list as "The richest guy in the world who is responsible for all those windows errors you get".
While the whitehouse probably gets tons now, keep in mind that a president is limited to how long he is in office and has that address. Hell I've been signing billg up for stuff since 96.
I hate to see MORE of the serial and parallel ports disappearing.
I think it comes down to a question of mass production. How many people use serial or paralell port devices now days? 'Those of us that need them' isn't going to be enough. The days are already here when you need add-on cards for serial and parallel ports. It's probably going to be the same as dot matrix printers - not available or useful to most people, but will probably never go away because so many industries depend on them.
Personally I'm not happy about the (inevitable) loss of PS/2 ports. I've had more than enough problems with USB peripherals (not just keyboards/mice) that don't work. Since the late 90's I have NEVER had a problem with a PS/2 peripheral connection.
You know, you really don't even need something that complicated to get really good sound. I'd be happy if I could find a car stereo that just had a phono jack in the front - then I can use ANY player.
Sure, you'll be able to afford more housing for the buck, but lifestyle items (cars, DVDs, even most food products
That really depends on what you buy. While it is true that a car will be relativly more expensive with a lower cost of living, you must also factor in that insurance rates are consideably higher, and fuel is probably more expensive than rual areas. Also parking costs are either non existant or trivial. For the rest of the stuff, they purchasing power just does not offset how much you save in cost of living - unless you have very expensive taists or buy a LOT of shit.
Probably the only thing to REALLY watch out for is debt. Moving from the big city with a lot of debt is not going to help much if you cut your pay. Suddenly college loans are the same, but you can't contribute as much money back. Unless of course you are aquiring debt because you happen to live in the city...
Folder redirection sounds okay, except for the fact that mozilla will create a randomly named profile (path). That means if for some reason mozilla is unhappy with the current profile it might just create a new profile(path).
Is there a reason for not having the cron job which operates the backup delete the browser cache files for all users before it starts the backup?
Other than simplicity not really. But the main problem is that profiles in mozilla have a randomly generated path, which means that you have to do shell script fu in order to properly delete the cache. I've been bitten by things not being where they were "supposed to be" and had it blown up in my face. Actually that's what I did for a while, but generally I just figured it wasn't worth the effort after mozilla changed directories one or two times.
Personally, I don't see any real reason for this. But there may be some.
If you have roaming profiles on a windows domain, it's a pain in the ass dragging around your entire browser cache with you (instead of having it set to a temp directory on the machine). I also have roaming profiles stored on a samba server which is backed up every night. It's really annoying working around trying not to backup something useless like the browser cache.
All of these headaches are easily avoided by something you USED to be able to set in Netscape (maybe mozilla too).
I are writing this email as I am willing to share the karma points with you, 20% for you, the account owner, 70% for us, 10% to bribe people to shut up about duplicate posts.
You know that's not Timothy, because the math on the percentages don't add up to above 100%
I think that even of you only a "few" features you run the risk of having something not work out and still missing the time schedule (as the DragonFly BSD guys said about SMP in FreeBSD). This isn't neccesarily the end of the world - it's just a schedule and they can always change it back so I'm willing to see how this all goes.
I think they want to avoid what happened to 5x stable. Many people like me have had all the features we need in 5x for a long time, but they keep pushing off 'stable' because of some new tweak. This time schedule may allow for development to continue at the same rate, while getting the userbase fresh releases with bugfixes and improvements.
Now think about this: these developers have kept up with the pace linux development dictates with 1/100 of the resources linux development has.
That sort of depends on what you mean by resources. An interesting thing was said by one of the DragonFly BSD guys, in that their development moved much more quickly because there weren't as many people involved in the project (as in FreeBSD). It's not neccesarily the size of the team, but the quality and how well they work together. Once you reach a criticle mass for a given team, you end up losing more and more productivity to human overhead as people are added.
I think Linux may start to feel unnessesary pressure due to corperate interests - which might slow things down more than advance them.
Actually I doubt MS could open source all of windows even if they wanted to. I think there's a lesson to be learned from the Netscape code. Netscape spent a LOT of time ripping out proprietary parts that belonged to other people. I can only imagine how much licensed code is stuffed into windows.
I have no idea what the problem is, but it seems to have something to do with the cable (as in cable TV) - which is hooked into my vcr which goes into my amp. You disconnect the cable and there is a HUGE reduction in the noise. Why my old Ess1868 in a P133 makes less noise than my Athlon with a Soundblaster 5.1 I'm not sure.
I'd probably be better off with digital out, but I'm too cheap. Besides which it was a lot of fun cooking up a web interface to play music on another computer.
I had been doing this with my P133 for years. Then I moved to a new area, and got a new computer. Now I have massive ammounts off background (feedback) noise so that's not an option for me anymore. I've tried every combination of grounding that I can, and it's to no avail. So it was back to crappy PC speakers for me *sigh*.
Well that's sort of true, it's actually back to the Pentium 133 (which still has slight background noise - I must have dirty power). It's a FreeBSD server that connects to my main computer via NFS and I control the music via music player daemon.
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The difference is that you can get a cheap shit PC for a really low price. This is unfortunatly what a lot of people buy, only to end up with a lot of problems due to lack of quality. Even so, if you wanted to spend money on a good quality computer, which wasn't going to become obsolete (since OSX only gets faster with every release), then an emac/imac might be a good choice.
Even if I build an uber PC I think I'd have a hard time reaching the price of the average desktop Mac. The only place that apple really shines is with the iBook. The iBook hands down spanks all other laptops as far as quality/price.
For a company I would think that it makes sense. Where I work we continually hire VERY bad employees. Getting them through the system, getting them acclimated, only to find something very wrong, then going through the process of getting rid of them is a huge burden on the company. Now of course this is all because of the idiots in management who hire these people, but what do I know?
Seems to me that if I contract someone and they prove that they would make a decent employee, then by all means hire them. Think of it as a sort of test drive for people. I'm not saying that you're not right, but I can see why a company would do it.
As a BSD user I'd say it's certainly better off that Linux came along. Linux is just a kernel, and as such allows a Linux distro to be a full fledged playground as far as the system goes, allowing for a lot of customization - it's also why so many distros are a total mess. I wonder if BSD would have the simplicity and elegance that it does if it had so many people constantly trying to screw with everything. RPM for BSD? I don't even want to go there.
But then again maybe someone would have just forked a BSD kernel and stuffed it in the place where the Linux kernel sits and we'd still have Linux, just not started by Linus. Guess we'll never know.
Interviewer: What do you think of "your wife"?
Linus: "Oh I don't know. Doesn't really matter. I just like to code."
Hmm... he's got a kid so something doesn't add up there =P
Because we need more than one VCR. We must have at least 2-3 so we can constantly pirate EVERYTHING. I have to copy every movie I puchase 3-4 times and sell them to friends who are more than willing to pay half price for a total piece of shit copy. It's just like the MPAA says!
well we're not really emulating windows until we share the entire "C:" drive with no password on workgroup "WORKGROUP".
I can't really stand up and cheer for an engineer who doesn't even use his own stuff.
Just because your job describes that you design something, doesn't mean that you can use it. If I work for a graphics card company am I going to buy every card I work on? I replace one every 2-3 years, not every 1-2 months. How often do you replace something like a printer? Hell can you even afford to purchase the stuff you engineer? maybe not.
"Eating your own dogfood" is a good concept, but it really has to happen starting at the management level. Giving your employees stuff to test and work out the bugs is a great way to get REAL feedback on a product, but this means that management also has to be receptive of that input. If you go out and buy something that's already in production, then it's already too late, and I highly doubt that management will listen to what you have to say anyhow.
I think he's referring to the heat pipes used to transfer heat away from the cpu via a radiator on the exhaust fan. It's actually a good way to get a quiet computer since it's MUCH easier to get a quiet 80mm fan than one for a CPU heatsink. My main issue with them is the fact that I'm not really sure that one or two millimeters is enough space for the graphics card to breathe.
Most computer users are probably aware of the fact that they use windows, and are also probably familiar with Bill Gates' association with windows - so naturally I'd think he'd be a good target for people signing up bogus addresses and such. I doubt anyone else would be collectivly as high on the list as "The richest guy in the world who is responsible for all those windows errors you get".
While the whitehouse probably gets tons now, keep in mind that a president is limited to how long he is in office and has that address. Hell I've been signing billg up for stuff since 96.
I think that would be a BSD rescue disk.
child: "Help I'm drowning!"
guru: *throws cd at kid* . "RTFM"
Ever hear of kerberos?
I hate to see MORE of the serial and parallel ports disappearing.
I think it comes down to a question of mass production. How many people use serial or paralell port devices now days? 'Those of us that need them' isn't going to be enough. The days are already here when you need add-on cards for serial and parallel ports. It's probably going to be the same as dot matrix printers - not available or useful to most people, but will probably never go away because so many industries depend on them.
Personally I'm not happy about the (inevitable) loss of PS/2 ports. I've had more than enough problems with USB peripherals (not just keyboards/mice) that don't work. Since the late 90's I have NEVER had a problem with a PS/2 peripheral connection.
You know, you really don't even need something that complicated to get really good sound. I'd be happy if I could find a car stereo that just had a phono jack in the front - then I can use ANY player.
Sure, you'll be able to afford more housing for the buck, but lifestyle items (cars, DVDs, even most food products
That really depends on what you buy. While it is true that a car will be relativly more expensive with a lower cost of living, you must also factor in that insurance rates are consideably higher, and fuel is probably more expensive than rual areas. Also parking costs are either non existant or trivial. For the rest of the stuff, they purchasing power just does not offset how much you save in cost of living - unless you have very expensive taists or buy a LOT of shit.
Probably the only thing to REALLY watch out for is debt. Moving from the big city with a lot of debt is not going to help much if you cut your pay. Suddenly college loans are the same, but you can't contribute as much money back. Unless of course you are aquiring debt because you happen to live in the city...
Folder redirection sounds okay, except for the fact that mozilla will create a randomly named profile (path). That means if for some reason mozilla is unhappy with the current profile it might just create a new profile(path).
Is there a reason for not having the cron job which operates the backup delete the browser cache files for all users before it starts the backup?
Other than simplicity not really. But the main problem is that profiles in mozilla have a randomly generated path, which means that you have to do shell script fu in order to properly delete the cache. I've been bitten by things not being where they were "supposed to be" and had it blown up in my face. Actually that's what I did for a while, but generally I just figured it wasn't worth the effort after mozilla changed directories one or two times.
* Changing the temporary cache path?
Personally, I don't see any real reason for this. But there may be some.
If you have roaming profiles on a windows domain, it's a pain in the ass dragging around your entire browser cache with you (instead of having it set to a temp directory on the machine). I also have roaming profiles stored on a samba server which is backed up every night. It's really annoying working around trying not to backup something useless like the browser cache.
All of these headaches are easily avoided by something you USED to be able to set in Netscape (maybe mozilla too).
I are writing this email as I am willing to share the karma points with you, 20% for you, the account owner, 70% for us, 10% to bribe people to shut up about duplicate posts.
You know that's not Timothy, because the math on the percentages don't add up to above 100%
yeah just what I need. More emails from horney housewives who need attention.
I think that even of you only a "few" features you run the risk of having something not work out and still missing the time schedule (as the DragonFly BSD guys said about SMP in FreeBSD). This isn't neccesarily the end of the world - it's just a schedule and they can always change it back so I'm willing to see how this all goes.
I think they want to avoid what happened to 5x stable. Many people like me have had all the features we need in 5x for a long time, but they keep pushing off 'stable' because of some new tweak. This time schedule may allow for development to continue at the same rate, while getting the userbase fresh releases with bugfixes and improvements.
Now think about this: these developers have kept up with the pace linux development dictates with 1/100 of the resources linux development has.
That sort of depends on what you mean by resources. An interesting thing was said by one of the DragonFly BSD guys, in that their development moved much more quickly because there weren't as many people involved in the project (as in FreeBSD). It's not neccesarily the size of the team, but the quality and how well they work together. Once you reach a criticle mass for a given team, you end up losing more and more productivity to human overhead as people are added.
I think Linux may start to feel unnessesary pressure due to corperate interests - which might slow things down more than advance them.
Actually I doubt MS could open source all of windows even if they wanted to. I think there's a lesson to be learned from the Netscape code. Netscape spent a LOT of time ripping out proprietary parts that belonged to other people. I can only imagine how much licensed code is stuffed into windows.
Well that would be a fun time wouldn't it?
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I have no idea what the problem is, but it seems to have something to do with the cable (as in cable TV) - which is hooked into my vcr which goes into my amp. You disconnect the cable and there is a HUGE reduction in the noise. Why my old Ess1868 in a P133 makes less noise than my Athlon with a Soundblaster 5.1 I'm not sure.
I'd probably be better off with digital out, but I'm too cheap. Besides which it was a lot of fun cooking up a web interface to play music on another computer.
I had been doing this with my P133 for years. Then I moved to a new area, and got a new computer. Now I have massive ammounts off background (feedback) noise so that's not an option for me anymore. I've tried every combination of grounding that I can, and it's to no avail. So it was back to crappy PC speakers for me *sigh*.
Well that's sort of true, it's actually back to the Pentium 133 (which still has slight background noise - I must have dirty power). It's a FreeBSD server that connects to my main computer via NFS and I control the music via music player daemon.
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