One day in December 2002 my little known website had over 30GB downloaded in a 24hr time period. This was based off of 2 mentions on BB style pr0n sites, and whatever traffic through IRC. Ended up completely saturating my friends T1 line, AT HIS WORK! oops... Needless to say, that stuff was removed. After all, free hosting does have it's shortcomings, but, I don't pay for bandwidth (thank god).
Find something secure, price it out. Take it you the decision maker, and request a meeting between yourself, the decision maker, and the current company you are using now. Demand HTTPS as a minimum, otherwise you will take your business elsewhere. They will either do what you want, or you will find someone else who will. Timeframe is important.
i was referring to having to turn off the card, eject, put back in... otherwise the system can go unstable, or the card just won't work. i have had this experience with win98/winME/win2000 on the same laptop. i was pleasantly surprised that mandrake 9.0 did not do the same.
don't assume i am trolling because i speak of a benefit of linux over windows.
Odd. I installed Mandrake 9.0 the other day on my IBM ThinkPad, and it was as easy to connect as my girlfriends iBook 800 was. Only one thing was done manually. It found the Lucent wireless card fine, and installed the correct driver. I told it to use DHCP, and that was it. I can even take the card out of my laptop, and put it back in, and it still works. No turning it off and on like I had to with Windows. Now I really understand why hot-swapping is so nice.
China sponsoring huge change to their own version of Linux.
Taiwan resents being part of the R.O.C.
Taiwan willing to do anything to silently jab mainland China.
Taiwan is the economic leader of the entire R.O.C. If they use Windows for everything, then the rest of the R.O.C. will have to too, if they want it all to work right....
Not to mention that this article we are all typing about compares SOLARIS serving up terminals versus NT serving up full fledged PC's.
Although, that is the setup I am trying to get here at my job now. To bad I am in sales, not IT. *sigh* At least the IT guy knows Novell, and understands that the NT 4.0 with Windows 98 with Office 2000 is just bad, very very bad.
How soon you forget, we are talking about religion, not science. Just because a scientist is talking/writing about religion does not make it science. It (religion/bible) is still just arbitrary. Look at how many mistakes there are in print. I am supposed to believe, or have faith, that there are none in the bible? Puhlease!
Another technique for expanding the memory capacity of current 32-bit chips is through physical memory addressing, said Dean McCarron, principal analyst of Mercury Research. This involves altering the chipset so that 32-bit chips could handle longer memory addresses. Intel has in fact already done preliminary work that would let its PC chips handle 40-bit addressing, which would let PCs hold more than 512GB of memory, according to papers published by the company.
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UPS and probably soon FedEx as well as various big shipping companies (train and semi-tractor trailers mainly) have been getting their necks rung over all of the Homeland Security stuff. HazMat is a pain in the ass. Always has been. Now it is even worse! There are various levels, 1,2,3 etc. Model rocket engines fall into Class 1. Most companies that don't specialize in HazMat just don't want to deal with it anymore. Surprise inspections, increasing costs, bonded drivers, background checks for everything. If you look at it as a matter of money in vs. moeny out, it is a waste of time for a common carrier to do this stuff.
And this is not taking into account of all the other Federal regulations involved (OSHA etc).
Reasoning declined to disclose which operating systems it compared with Linux, but said two of the three general-purpose operating systems were versions of Unix. The comparison was done with version 2.4.19 of the Linux kernel. For the comparison products, the company had access to the source code that for proprietary software is usually a closely guarded secret.
that is because the little guys buy in bulk from sony/ibm usually, reconfigure it as a "linux laptop" and sell it to you at a premium. i mean come on, a Vaoi R505 series starting at $2000? they start at $1799 from sony, with the MS tax.
this is not 1996, it is no longer hard to install linux yourself. hell i can do it.
When I had shoulder surgery in 1993, there was another Christopher J Smith there for the same basic operation, on the other shoulder. Of course the anesthesiologist switched the files! Basic idea was to put meds in one arm, operate on the other. He was rather offended when I yanked the I.V. out of my arm while asking "what are the first 3 numbers of the SSN on that chart?" Ten minutes later, after some ID checking and whatnot, I was on my way to dreamland.
Apple's "switch" ads are cute, but seem to be rather ineffective.
Look at the market share that Apple has. It is unchanged since 1999 or so.
OS X hasn't helped... switch hasn't helped... no more fruit colors hasn't helped... I am starting to think people use what they want/like/have to. Marketing doesn't seem to play much of a role.
Look at the Madonna ads that came with the intro of Windows XP. Those flopped. Big time. And they were not horrible.
As computers become more and more common place (my 80+ yr old grandparents have one!), emotional buying decisions become less prevalent. People just replace what they had used in the past with the "latest and greatest" version.
HP has the "cool" new BMW F1 ads, and there market share has slipped over 1% worldwide since the merger with Compaq.
Sony is a huge company involved in many different markets (music, computers, PS/PS2 etc) yet 60% of their entire profits come from the Playstation sector.
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One day in December 2002 my little known website had over 30GB downloaded in a 24hr time period. This was based off of 2 mentions on BB style pr0n sites, and whatever traffic through IRC. Ended up completely saturating my friends T1 line, AT HIS WORK! oops... Needless to say, that stuff was removed. After all, free hosting does have it's shortcomings, but, I don't pay for bandwidth (thank god).
Find something secure, price it out. Take it you the decision maker, and request a meeting between yourself, the decision maker, and the current company you are using now. Demand HTTPS as a minimum, otherwise you will take your business elsewhere. They will either do what you want, or you will find someone else who will. Timeframe is important.
where did i say about rebooting windows?
i was referring to having to turn off the card, eject, put back in... otherwise the system can go unstable, or the card just won't work. i have had this experience with win98/winME/win2000 on the same laptop. i was pleasantly surprised that mandrake 9.0 did not do the same.
don't assume i am trolling because i speak of a benefit of linux over windows.
Odd. I installed Mandrake 9.0 the other day on my IBM ThinkPad, and it was as easy to connect as my girlfriends iBook 800 was. Only one thing was done manually. It found the Lucent wireless card fine, and installed the correct driver. I told it to use DHCP, and that was it. I can even take the card out of my laptop, and put it back in, and it still works. No turning it off and on like I had to with Windows. Now I really understand why hot-swapping is so nice.
Political Scenario's 101:
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China sponsoring huge change to their own version of Linux.
Taiwan resents being part of the R.O.C.
Taiwan willing to do anything to silently jab mainland China.
Taiwan is the economic leader of the entire R.O.C. If they use Windows for everything, then the rest of the R.O.C. will have to too, if they want it all to work right.
VERY TRUE.
Not to mention that this article we are all typing about compares SOLARIS serving up terminals versus NT serving up full fledged PC's.
Although, that is the setup I am trying to get here at my job now. To bad I am in sales, not IT. *sigh* At least the IT guy knows Novell, and understands that the NT 4.0 with Windows 98 with Office 2000 is just bad, very very bad.
here for starters.
/. of course
www.cnn.com
www.foxnews.com
www.msnbc.com
www.usatoday.com
boxofficemojo.com
www.fark.com
starnix.org
news.google.com
aard.org
nicoal.org
www.yzedf.com/links.html
www.ninenine.com
www.sexkey.com
www.speedtv.com
:-D
So were my parents! I lived there for less than 5 years.
*phew*
I was born there! No clue that any /. types would be there ;-)
Linus being opinionated and brash? Never!
They'll do anything to screw the establishment!
How soon you forget, we are talking about religion, not science. Just because a scientist is talking/writing about religion does not make it science. It (religion/bible) is still just arbitrary. Look at how many mistakes there are in print. I am supposed to believe, or have faith, that there are none in the bible? Puhlease!
No need for the move from 32 to 64 yet:
Another technique for expanding the memory capacity of current 32-bit chips is through physical memory addressing, said Dean McCarron, principal analyst of Mercury Research. This involves altering the chipset so that 32-bit chips could handle longer memory addresses. Intel has in fact already done preliminary work that would let its PC chips handle 40-bit addressing, which would let PCs hold more than 512GB of memory, according to papers published by the company.
don't forget the Corvette ZR-1 with "valet mode"
what a turd that was.
UPS and probably soon FedEx as well as various big shipping companies (train and semi-tractor trailers mainly) have been getting their necks rung over all of the Homeland Security stuff. HazMat is a pain in the ass. Always has been. Now it is even worse! There are various levels, 1,2,3 etc. Model rocket engines fall into Class 1. Most companies that don't specialize in HazMat just don't want to deal with it anymore. Surprise inspections, increasing costs, bonded drivers, background checks for everything. If you look at it as a matter of money in vs. moeny out, it is a waste of time for a common carrier to do this stuff.
And this is not taking into account of all the other Federal regulations involved (OSHA etc).
Why not institute a 5% flat tax? Winners would learn to advertise prices "including tax" as they do in other parts of the world.
Of course, sales tax should be a flat rate nation wide also...
But that would make sense to the general public. And we all know legislators don't like that (think USA tax codes).
mine was a copyright based comment.
using 9.1 beta3 and it is junk. somehow the pcmcia lucent wireless card that worked fine in 9.0 doesn't in 9.1b3 :(
i was also very underwhelmed by kde 3.1
if i had the ca$h, i would just get a 12" powerbook or ibook.
my Aunt that forwards me every damn joke she gets. Yes, of course she uses AOL.
*sigh*
that is because the little guys buy in bulk from sony/ibm usually, reconfigure it as a "linux laptop" and sell it to you at a premium. i mean come on, a Vaoi R505 series starting at $2000? they start at $1799 from sony, with the MS tax.
this is not 1996, it is no longer hard to install linux yourself. hell i can do it.
are these guys Chevrolet fans?
aside from /. i have not heard a thing about this company. i guess we know why it failed.
Christopher Jason Smith
When I had shoulder surgery in 1993, there was another Christopher J Smith there for the same basic operation, on the other shoulder. Of course the anesthesiologist switched the files! Basic idea was to put meds in one arm, operate on the other. He was rather offended when I yanked the I.V. out of my arm while asking "what are the first 3 numbers of the SSN on that chart?" Ten minutes later, after some ID checking and whatnot, I was on my way to dreamland.
Apple's "switch" ads are cute, but seem to be rather ineffective.
Look at the market share that Apple has. It is unchanged since 1999 or so.
OS X hasn't helped... switch hasn't helped... no more fruit colors hasn't helped... I am starting to think people use what they want/like/have to. Marketing doesn't seem to play much of a role.
Look at the Madonna ads that came with the intro of Windows XP. Those flopped. Big time. And they were not horrible.
As computers become more and more common place (my 80+ yr old grandparents have one!), emotional buying decisions become less prevalent. People just replace what they had used in the past with the "latest and greatest" version.
HP has the "cool" new BMW F1 ads, and there market share has slipped over 1% worldwide since the merger with Compaq.
Sony is a huge company involved in many different markets (music, computers, PS/PS2 etc) yet 60% of their entire profits come from the Playstation sector.