Sheesh.. I am hardly one to stand up for Microsoft, but how can you compare Microsofts history for system security by using a nearly 5 year old example of their OS!
I should imagine if you plonked an unsecured *n*x box of any distribution on the net without any patches, from around 1998, it would be comprimised just as quickly..
Hm.. thats a bit of a narrow minded view of the situation. SMS has plenty of uses! For a start, if you are on a strict budget, an SMS is a lot cheaper than a phone call - you can get 460+ letters into an SMS text, and if you get familiar with the keypad you can type messages using predicitive text pretty damn quickly.
Also, if someone isn't answering their phone (for whatever reason) you could just send them an SMS instead of making them have to phone up their voice mail retrieval.. which ususally costs them money.
Sure a 7x2 screen isnt fun, but its enough and it gets a message across. I dont need it in full colour antialiased text to get the point:)
Well they may not directly support open source, but at least they make Linux drivers! To contrast and compare.. trying to get my Radeon 7200 working under Linux - unreliable, inconsistant, doesn't work a proper speed despite following the various guides. In contrast, getting my TNT2 working - just compile kernel with DRI support, install the downloaded drivers, and bingo, works like a charm.
How about you stfu? I wasn't making a 'we are undervalued - switching off the network should make em understand' gripe - I was trying to point out that the network has become so reliable, it is rare for my college to experience any downtime - and I would be interested to see how they reacted if it was to go off for a day or something.
Though I find it amusing that you choose to use the electric supply as a reference - our local electric company is complete toss, and we end up with about 3 or 4 powercuts a year..
I think our company (I work for a college in the UK) don't quite realise the importance of IT in their establishment. I think the problem is, at least from the point of view at my place, is that people just do not realise how much computers have taken over the 'behind the scenes' aspect of things. Computers are responsible for our critical finance data, running our telephone system (Cisco IP Telephony), running staff payroll - the list is endless. Yet people still see network backbones as a few pieces of old BNC strung across the back of a wall into a small repeater under the desk.. what they dont see if the miles and miles of UTP and fiber we have linking the various blocks and departments together, not including the various switches and routers connecting networks.
Is it because IT systems have become so reliable, and so transparent to the average user that they give it any thought any more? We keep pondering flicking the power switch on the core switch one day, just to see how much people suddenly realise their IT network means to them.. I'd give it about 1 minute before we got hassle from senior management asking when the network was due back up.
Because certain hardware vendors are still not interested in releasing proper Linux drivers for their video cards, or opening up the information to their products to projects who are willing to write drivers, we as users are stuck somewhere in the middle.
I experienced this recently whilst trying to get my ATI Radeon 7200 working under Linux. ATI dont produce a Linux driver of their own for this card, so I had to use drivers from the DRI project. Trying to get this to work was confusing enough.. the main example of this came after I visted the DRI page to try and get some FAQ's to read through.. there I spotted a message that said something along the lines of "Dont use the DRI modules that ship with the kernel! Use these ones instead!" - well why bother making them a feature of the kernel at all? Seeing as you are all in one big boat together, why not get projects like this syncronized?
I am left a little unsatisfied with the end result. I appreciate that the DRI guys can only do so much, but as I said the attitudes of some companies leave them in such a situation. As a result of this, my subscription to Transgaming WineX (which I hear is really good) has been wasted.. I can't get the card working reliably enough so I might as well just boot into Windows for gaming.
In contrast, I attempted the same with my work computer which has a TNT2 card in it.. downloaded the drivers from Nvidia, ran their install script, and restarted X. I was greeted with an Nvidia splash screen and everything worked.
On a slightly related subject..
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I think Linux has got to the point now, where it is a mature and sturdy product, which easily rivals any other platform in many different fields. The problem is, free software marches, geeks proclaiming that Microsoft is evil, and cartoons of Tux & the BSD Daemon kicking Bill Gates ass don't really make people believe that Linux reliable business product that it actually is.
I think a lot of the Linux groups & distributions need to get together and plan some kind of marketing campaign, using the resources of all their people, which could really help Linux gain some real limelight - it has certainly earned it, and now it deserves the chance to shine through.
Just to answer all the AC's who posted.. I was only born in 1981, so it was pretty impossible for me to watch any of the original Star Wars releases.
When it came round to the 1997 release, I had still never seen Star Wars and wasn't particularly bothered about it. Then after the remasters had done the rounds, I watched them on video at a friends house and then realised what I had missed out on. I have done my bit and watches the prequels at the cinema since then - despite having some excellent parts in them, they just don't create the kind of magic I would have hoped to get from watching the originals on the big screen. I keep hoping a local cinema will run a marathon at some point so I can go and watch Star Wars on the big screen, but for now I will have to make do with the home video versions.
Well, seeing as I grew up in the wrong time period to see Star Wars when it first came out (and was not interested when it got remastered and shown at various marathons at local cinemas), I for one would love to see Star Wars get redone using this technology and then get a re-release.
I haven't personally travelled to the USA (it is something I have wanted to do for a long time) but I recently talked about this with a friend who visited Orlando on vacation. BTW - As you may have guessed from my username, I am from the UK.
He said we have nothing to compare sizes in our drinks, to what you have over in the States.. this was made even more obvious when a friend recently returned from visiting his brother in Missouri - he bought some plastic cups whilst he was over there that could pretty much hold an entire litre of drink - I have never seen anything like that over here. I guess Americans just drink (and pee) more.
Not trying to get insulting (its not intended to be) but the same seems to be true of food. The 'Orlando' guy said he went for a meal at a steak house on his holiday.. after he ordered some huge steak, the waitress gave him a plate and said he was welcome to eat some food from the buffet whilst he waited, as it was included in the price. Over here in the UK, that would normally mean some salad or pasta perhaps.. so he was pretty surprised to discover that the buffer in fact consisted of Steaks, Chicken and all that kind of stuff.. basically an entire meal in itself. Like I say, we don't really have anything like that over here.
This reminds me of a hilarious thing I once read on the Microsoft site about new features for their latest version of Media Player. It said that compared to the old version of Media Player, the new one could copy music onto CD up to 10 times faster than previous media player versions!
Then the little '*' down the bottom said 'compared to (old) media player using a 2x CD-R drive, and (new) media player using 20x CD-R drive.'
Yea.. right. I just read on another site, that it has been hinted that DNF wouldn't be seen in 2002. And the most amusing thing is, George Broussard has had to admit that the graphics won't be as good as those in Doom III.. so why the huge delay on this damn game? They must have switched engines on it at least 3 times..
As the subject says.. I took the floppy drive out some time ago, as I needed the spare molex to power my LiveDrive.. I haven't needed one since then. My Windows XP and Linux CD's are all self booting.. and its pretty rare that anything useful even fits on 1.44MB anyway these days.
I agree about the over-hype..
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I think this is a good example of why the media really need to look at what they are doing these days.
Picture the scene.. around 7:15am.. I am in my bed, and at that stage where you are not quite awake and not quite asleep - I am listening to the radio before I get up to get ready for work and then they announce quite bluntly that there is a meteor, about two miles in size, heading for the Earth. That certainly got me out of bed pretty quick.. the worst thing about this is that the radio station in question is BBC's Radio 1 - one of the main radio stations for the UK - not some tin pot local station.
During the day I headed over to Slashdot to get some more information, and it turns out that the risk is not quite as grave as the British media is reporting.
So why the hell must they persist with these scare tactics.. I wish they could just report the news as it was, without terrifying the public with unfounded, half-assedly researched stories. Sheesh..
I read quite a lot about this too.. I can't really make up my mind. There were many interesting facts suggesting why man never actually made it to the moon all those years ago - you can make up your own mind by checking out some of the sites listed below. I really cannot make up my mind on this..
And they didn't expect to get caught? I might understand if they were trying to sell a harddrive they had stolen from work, or a 2nd hand base unit they had sneaked out. But a few hundred pounds of moonrock are sure to be noticed, especially when you sell em on eBay!
I own a Sun Blade 100, which I guess is a real basic entry level Sun box in that it has an IDE harddrive, and onboard ATI graphics. I have upgraded the HDD to a 40GB IBM Deskstar and it currently has 256MB RAM. Would Debian run ok on this? I have wanted to try out debian for ages but never really got around to downloading it - seeing as they do it for Sparc, my Sun Blade would be an ideal donor as Solaris drives me up the wall;)
Slashdot Mirror
I believe a petabyte is 1,000 GigaBytes, or 1,000,000 MegaBytes...
Sheesh.. well I managed to download the compiled binaries in a 3.16MB zip file but the site is already struggling.
Sheesh.. I am hardly one to stand up for Microsoft, but how can you compare Microsofts history for system security by using a nearly 5 year old example of their OS!
I should imagine if you plonked an unsecured *n*x box of any distribution on the net without any patches, from around 1998, it would be comprimised just as quickly..
Hm.. thats a bit of a narrow minded view of the situation. SMS has plenty of uses! For a start, if you are on a strict budget, an SMS is a lot cheaper than a phone call - you can get 460+ letters into an SMS text, and if you get familiar with the keypad you can type messages using predicitive text pretty damn quickly.
:)
Also, if someone isn't answering their phone (for whatever reason) you could just send them an SMS instead of making them have to phone up their voice mail retrieval.. which ususally costs them money.
Sure a 7x2 screen isnt fun, but its enough and it gets a message across. I dont need it in full colour antialiased text to get the point
Well they may not directly support open source, but at least they make Linux drivers! To contrast and compare.. trying to get my Radeon 7200 working under Linux - unreliable, inconsistant, doesn't work a proper speed despite following the various guides. In contrast, getting my TNT2 working - just compile kernel with DRI support, install the downloaded drivers, and bingo, works like a charm.
'Dude' builds himself a new webserver, as the Slashdot crowd help him melt his after only a few minutes! :)
How about you stfu? I wasn't making a 'we are undervalued - switching off the network should make em understand' gripe - I was trying to point out that the network has become so reliable, it is rare for my college to experience any downtime - and I would be interested to see how they reacted if it was to go off for a day or something.
Though I find it amusing that you choose to use the electric supply as a reference - our local electric company is complete toss, and we end up with about 3 or 4 powercuts a year..
I think our company (I work for a college in the UK) don't quite realise the importance of IT in their establishment. I think the problem is, at least from the point of view at my place, is that people just do not realise how much computers have taken over the 'behind the scenes' aspect of things. Computers are responsible for our critical finance data, running our telephone system (Cisco IP Telephony), running staff payroll - the list is endless. Yet people still see network backbones as a few pieces of old BNC strung across the back of a wall into a small repeater under the desk.. what they dont see if the miles and miles of UTP and fiber we have linking the various blocks and departments together, not including the various switches and routers connecting networks.
Is it because IT systems have become so reliable, and so transparent to the average user that they give it any thought any more? We keep pondering flicking the power switch on the core switch one day, just to see how much people suddenly realise their IT network means to them.. I'd give it about 1 minute before we got hassle from senior management asking when the network was due back up.
Because certain hardware vendors are still not interested in releasing proper Linux drivers for their video cards, or opening up the information to their products to projects who are willing to write drivers, we as users are stuck somewhere in the middle.
I experienced this recently whilst trying to get my ATI Radeon 7200 working under Linux. ATI dont produce a Linux driver of their own for this card, so I had to use drivers from the DRI project. Trying to get this to work was confusing enough.. the main example of this came after I visted the DRI page to try and get some FAQ's to read through.. there I spotted a message that said something along the lines of "Dont use the DRI modules that ship with the kernel! Use these ones instead!" - well why bother making them a feature of the kernel at all? Seeing as you are all in one big boat together, why not get projects like this syncronized?
I am left a little unsatisfied with the end result. I appreciate that the DRI guys can only do so much, but as I said the attitudes of some companies leave them in such a situation. As a result of this, my subscription to Transgaming WineX (which I hear is really good) has been wasted.. I can't get the card working reliably enough so I might as well just boot into Windows for gaming.
In contrast, I attempted the same with my work computer which has a TNT2 card in it.. downloaded the drivers from Nvidia, ran their install script, and restarted X. I was greeted with an Nvidia splash screen and everything worked.
I think Linux has got to the point now, where it is a mature and sturdy product, which easily rivals any other platform in many different fields. The problem is, free software marches, geeks proclaiming that Microsoft is evil, and cartoons of Tux & the BSD Daemon kicking Bill Gates ass don't really make people believe that Linux reliable business product that it actually is.
I think a lot of the Linux groups & distributions need to get together and plan some kind of marketing campaign, using the resources of all their people, which could really help Linux gain some real limelight - it has certainly earned it, and now it deserves the chance to shine through.
Just to answer all the AC's who posted.. I was only born in 1981, so it was pretty impossible for me to watch any of the original Star Wars releases.
When it came round to the 1997 release, I had still never seen Star Wars and wasn't particularly bothered about it. Then after the remasters had done the rounds, I watched them on video at a friends house and then realised what I had missed out on. I have done my bit and watches the prequels at the cinema since then - despite having some excellent parts in them, they just don't create the kind of magic I would have hoped to get from watching the originals on the big screen. I keep hoping a local cinema will run a marathon at some point so I can go and watch Star Wars on the big screen, but for now I will have to make do with the home video versions.
Well, seeing as I grew up in the wrong time period to see Star Wars when it first came out (and was not interested when it got remastered and shown at various marathons at local cinemas), I for one would love to see Star Wars get redone using this technology and then get a re-release.
:)
I wouldn't imagine I am the only one either
I asked him this morning, and yes it was Sizzler. Well done Sherlock :-)
I haven't personally travelled to the USA (it is something I have wanted to do for a long time) but I recently talked about this with a friend who visited Orlando on vacation. BTW - As you may have guessed from my username, I am from the UK.
:)
He said we have nothing to compare sizes in our drinks, to what you have over in the States.. this was made even more obvious when a friend recently returned from visiting his brother in Missouri - he bought some plastic cups whilst he was over there that could pretty much hold an entire litre of drink - I have never seen anything like that over here. I guess Americans just drink (and pee) more.
Not trying to get insulting (its not intended to be) but the same seems to be true of food. The 'Orlando' guy said he went for a meal at a steak house on his holiday.. after he ordered some huge steak, the waitress gave him a plate and said he was welcome to eat some food from the buffet whilst he waited, as it was included in the price. Over here in the UK, that would normally mean some salad or pasta perhaps.. so he was pretty surprised to discover that the buffer in fact consisted of Steaks, Chicken and all that kind of stuff.. basically an entire meal in itself. Like I say, we don't really have anything like that over here.
Anyway.. enough talk of food
Man.. all they need is Steve Jobs working for them, and you would have the ultimate hype machine.
This reminds me of a hilarious thing I once read on the Microsoft site about new features for their latest version of Media Player. It said that compared to the old version of Media Player, the new one could copy music onto CD up to 10 times faster than previous media player versions!
:)
Then the little '*' down the bottom said 'compared to (old) media player using a 2x CD-R drive, and (new) media player using 20x CD-R drive.'
Well, I found it funny
Yea.. right. I just read on another site, that it has been hinted that DNF wouldn't be seen in 2002. And the most amusing thing is, George Broussard has had to admit that the graphics won't be as good as those in Doom III.. so why the huge delay on this damn game? They must have switched engines on it at least 3 times..
As the subject says.. I took the floppy drive out some time ago, as I needed the spare molex to power my LiveDrive.. I haven't needed one since then. My Windows XP and Linux CD's are all self booting.. and its pretty rare that anything useful even fits on 1.44MB anyway these days.
I think this is a good example of why the media really need to look at what they are doing these days.
Picture the scene.. around 7:15am.. I am in my bed, and at that stage where you are not quite awake and not quite asleep - I am listening to the radio before I get up to get ready for work and then they announce quite bluntly that there is a meteor, about two miles in size, heading for the Earth. That certainly got me out of bed pretty quick.. the worst thing about this is that the radio station in question is BBC's Radio 1 - one of the main radio stations for the UK - not some tin pot local station.
During the day I headed over to Slashdot to get some more information, and it turns out that the risk is not quite as grave as the British media is reporting.
So why the hell must they persist with these scare tactics.. I wish they could just report the news as it was, without terrifying the public with unfounded, half-assedly researched stories. Sheesh..
Putting a PC into an Xbox case! Oh, wait..
I read quite a lot about this too.. I can't really make up my mind. There were many interesting facts suggesting why man never actually made it to the moon all those years ago - you can make up your own mind by checking out some of the sites listed below. I really cannot make up my mind on this..
http://www.apollohoax.com/
http://www.redzero.demon.co.uk/moonhoax/
http://a1.nu/moon-landing-hoax/
By professionals, I assume you mean the AC's who normally get in there and post :
a) An article explaining why Linux is dying..
b) A goatse.cx link..
c) THE OFFICIAL TACO-SNOTTING FAQ by poopbot.
d) Whatever else you can think of.
So I misread it.. now stop drinking caffineated coffee - it obviously affects you.
And they didn't expect to get caught? I might understand if they were trying to sell a harddrive they had stolen from work, or a 2nd hand base unit they had sneaked out. But a few hundred pounds of moonrock are sure to be noticed, especially when you sell em on eBay!
They deserve to get caught..
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I own a Sun Blade 100, which I guess is a real basic entry level Sun box in that it has an IDE harddrive, and onboard ATI graphics. I have upgraded the HDD to a 40GB IBM Deskstar and it currently has 256MB RAM. Would Debian run ok on this? I have wanted to try out debian for ages but never really got around to downloading it - seeing as they do it for Sparc, my Sun Blade would be an ideal donor as Solaris drives me up the wall