That is one damn good reason to buy Intel over AMD... CPU fans go all the time. If you haven't had one go, then you either frequently monitor/clean your box or you aren't old enough.
Where are all of the "AMD IS MUCH BETTER THAN INTEL" comments that I usually see on Slashdot?
Having a tiny little CPU fan keeping your chip from frying is pathetic design.
That's why I buy Intel instead of AMD. Heat dissipation and power. If you run your computer 24/7 for 5 years, you will save more money by using a CPU that dissipates 30 watts less (Athlon 1Ghz vs. Intel PIII 1Ghz).
My PIII 866MHz does *not* have a separate CPU fan.
The problem with using bluetooth as a complete replacement for wires is power. The keyboard, mouse, and other similar devices will have to be battery powered. That will just be annoying.
I tried StarOffice 5.2 recently. It mildly surprised me.
I was even able to open up a PowerPoint presentation, and it did it perfectly!
I'll admit, the darn thing is slow...especially to load. But I see a lot of potential in this piece of software. Too bad they implement their own widgets...
Obviously commander burrito, or whatever his/her name is, doesn't read the articles before posting them. For a number of reasons pointed out by other readers, this article is crap and doesn't deserve the slashdot-effect that it is receiving.
The only reason that IBM supports Linux is so they make more money. Its obvious that IBM wants Linux to eat away at small servers running Windows 2000. Some of those customers will eventually need a bigger, more scalable server. If they are already running Linux, they can easily migrate to AIX without much staff retraining. It also isn't difficult to port enterprise Linux software to AIX.
I could be wrong here, but if a Worm exploits a buffer over-run, then code would have to be written for that exact hardware and operating system. With Windows2000, you know exactly what hardware the server is running on (x86), and you know that exact OS of course. But with UNIX, you really don't have a good idea what hardware is running, do you? Linux could be running on PPC. Unix could be running on SPARC, MIPS, or x86.
Even if you do know and could find out easily, everything is not uniform. Having uniform hardware would seem to increase the risk for widespread infection.
They have 400 users relying on one server. I sure hope they have a backup server. Power supply failure, memory problem, motherboard goes...anything could bring down the entire office.
This is easy. There are plenty of.ps viewers. Its also easy and free to create a.ps file on Windows. Just install a postscript printer driver and print to a file.
I would guess that even the very best virus writers have just a tad bit of fear that he or she might get caught. If someone unleashed a virus like that, and got caught, he or she would see quite a bit of jail time.
IBM won't do this. Its easy to see why IBM is on the Linux bandwagon. They want Linux to succeed as much as possible on the Server end in order to take market share away from Microsoft. Then, when corporations decide to upgrade their Linux servers, they will look to more industrial grade platforms such as AIX and RS6000. Its much easier to port your applications and train your staff to use AIX when they already have a background in Linux.
IBM can care less about the desktop. They don't make money there.
This guy knows his stuff. I agree. C++ is not the silver bullet, but it is a work-horse language for serious development.
I personally think the core Java language is decent, but I don't like the idea of JVMs. The only place where a JVM is great is through the WWW, not the desktop. Why do I make such a claim?
Just last night, I attempted to run a Java Swing program on my P166/128mb machine. Granted the machine is old, but it does everything else I want it to do (Linux 2.4, WindowMaker, Python, C++ development, Perl, WWW development). I was just utterly amazed at how unusable a JAVA GUI was on this machine. I would press a menu button, and the menu would gradually appear 3 seconds later!
That is an ignorant comment. GSM was not right for the U.S. at the time. First reason was the choice of frequency. The European GSM standard uses frequencies that were already allocated by the FCC for government use. Second reason is that GSM generally has smaller cell sizes and the U.S. has a much larger geographic range to cover than Europe. I realize that you can alter the size of cells with a tradeoff on users/cell, but I'll get to that in a sec. It was too costly to roll out GSM in the U.S. Third reason is that existing carriers in the U.S. weren't about to dump their existing equipment contracts (Motorola, Lucent) to jump on some standard developed in Europe. Motorola was working on CDMA at the time (along with Qualcomm), and told their customers that they would provide a digital solution that offered better voice quality, more users per frequency, and better cost. They also said that CDMA would work very nicely with their existing AMPS systems (which it does). AT&T/Lucent was working on TDMA, which is similar to GSM. What some ignorant/.'s don't understand is customer-supplier relationships. When you are dealing with contracts worth millions of dollars, you just don't jump ship when the next best thing is offered by different companies.
MOT/Qualcomm believed that they could have the best of both worlds with CDMA. CDMA did not quite live up to its claim as to the number of users it supports, but is still a successfull technology (IS-95 that is...CDMA the technology is used for many things including Global Positioning System).
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meanwhile, an Athlon is catching on fire.
That is one damn good reason to buy Intel over AMD... CPU fans go all the time. If you haven't had one go, then you either frequently monitor/clean your box or you aren't old enough.
Where are all of the "AMD IS MUCH BETTER THAN INTEL" comments that I usually see on Slashdot?
Having a tiny little CPU fan keeping your chip from frying is pathetic design.
That's why I buy Intel instead of AMD. Heat dissipation and power. If you run your computer 24/7 for 5 years, you will save more money by using a CPU that dissipates 30 watts less (Athlon 1Ghz vs. Intel PIII 1Ghz).
My PIII 866MHz does *not* have a separate CPU fan.
The problem with using bluetooth as a complete replacement for wires is power. The keyboard, mouse, and other similar devices will have to be battery powered. That will just be annoying.
I tried StarOffice 5.2 recently. It mildly surprised me.
I was even able to open up a PowerPoint presentation, and it did it perfectly!
I'll admit, the darn thing is slow...especially to load. But I see a lot of potential in this piece of software. Too bad they implement their own widgets...
Bluetooth and 802.11 can't be compared. 802.11 is meant to replace ethernet. Bluetooth is meant to replace IR, serial cables, USB, etc.
Obviously commander burrito, or whatever his/her name is, doesn't read the articles before posting them. For a number of reasons pointed out by other readers, this article is crap and doesn't deserve the slashdot-effect that it is receiving.
The only reason that IBM supports Linux is so they make more money. Its obvious that IBM wants Linux to eat away at small servers running Windows 2000. Some of those customers will eventually need a bigger, more scalable server. If they are already running Linux, they can easily migrate to AIX without much staff retraining. It also isn't difficult to port enterprise Linux software to AIX.
Enough of this "IBM is now a good company" crap.
Ha haaa!!! You have been busted! You are a Windows-user!! You should be banned from slashdot.
(begin rant)
... why doesn't Java have them? Yeah, I know you can make a class filled with "static final", but it just isn't the same, or is it?
Is it just me, or is JAVA simply too verbose to do simple things like open a file and read lines of text?
Also, I love enums
Then I tried a Swing GUI on my old P166. Completely unusable! Yet QT, GTK+, etc. worked just fine on that machine.
(disclaimer: I'm a professional C programmer who casually dabbles in Java and C++)
(end rant)
A little surfing proved my hunch correct. Buffer-overflow attacks destroy the stack return address, and place rogue code on the stack as well
So the diversity of UNIX certainly has its advantages.
I could be wrong here, but if a Worm exploits a buffer over-run, then code would have to be written for that exact hardware and operating system. With Windows2000, you know exactly what hardware the server is running on (x86), and you know that exact OS of course. But with UNIX, you really don't have a good idea what hardware is running, do you? Linux could be running on PPC. Unix could be running on SPARC, MIPS, or x86.
Even if you do know and could find out easily, everything is not uniform. Having uniform hardware would seem to increase the risk for widespread infection.
They have 400 users relying on one server. I sure hope they have a backup server. Power supply failure, memory problem, motherboard goes...anything could bring down the entire office.
Is it just me, or is Slashdot becoming a forum to discuss Microsoft conspiracy theories?
This is easy. There are plenty of .ps viewers. Its also easy and free to create a .ps file on Windows. Just install a postscript printer driver and print to a file.
>I think you miss the point. Software is >inherantly free. Bits are inherantly copyable, >1's and 0's are just 1's and 0's
No, you miss the point. Books are jot dots of ink on paper. Therefore all books should not by copyrighted, right? Wrong.
If that were the case, we wouldn't have many artists nor authors...
I would guess that even the very best virus writers have just a tad bit of fear that he or she might get caught. If someone unleashed a virus like that, and got caught, he or she would see quite a bit of jail time.
IBM won't do this. Its easy to see why IBM is on the Linux bandwagon. They want Linux to succeed as much as possible on the Server end in order to take market share away from Microsoft. Then, when corporations decide to upgrade their Linux servers, they will look to more industrial grade platforms such as AIX and RS6000. Its much easier to port your applications and train your staff to use AIX when they already have a background in Linux.
IBM can care less about the desktop. They don't make money there.
This guy knows his stuff. I agree. C++ is not the silver bullet, but it is a work-horse language for serious development. I personally think the core Java language is decent, but I don't like the idea of JVMs. The only place where a JVM is great is through the WWW, not the desktop. Why do I make such a claim? Just last night, I attempted to run a Java Swing program on my P166/128mb machine. Granted the machine is old, but it does everything else I want it to do (Linux 2.4, WindowMaker, Python, C++ development, Perl, WWW development). I was just utterly amazed at how unusable a JAVA GUI was on this machine. I would press a menu button, and the menu would gradually appear 3 seconds later!
void* is bad. use c++
Well shit, I better just pack my bags tonight and move to Australia.
That is an ignorant comment. GSM was not right for the U.S. at the time. First reason was the choice of frequency. The European GSM standard uses frequencies that were already allocated by the FCC for government use. Second reason is that GSM generally has smaller cell sizes and the U.S. has a much larger geographic range to cover than Europe. I realize that you can alter the size of cells with a tradeoff on users/cell, but I'll get to that in a sec. It was too costly to roll out GSM in the U.S. Third reason is that existing carriers in the U.S. weren't about to dump their existing equipment contracts (Motorola, Lucent) to jump on some standard developed in Europe. Motorola was working on CDMA at the time (along with Qualcomm), and told their customers that they would provide a digital solution that offered better voice quality, more users per frequency, and better cost. They also said that CDMA would work very nicely with their existing AMPS systems (which it does). AT&T/Lucent was working on TDMA, which is similar to GSM. What some ignorant /.'s don't understand is customer-supplier relationships. When you are dealing with contracts worth millions of dollars, you just don't jump ship when the next best thing is offered by different companies.
MOT/Qualcomm believed that they could have the best of both worlds with CDMA. CDMA did not quite live up to its claim as to the number of users it supports, but is still a successfull technology (IS-95 that is...CDMA the technology is used for many things including Global Positioning System).
Absolutely what I thought! The movie should have ended with suicide...
Spielberg murdered Kubrich by making it a feel good movie.
Interesting comments... From you standpoint, is there a language better than C/C++ that can meet the needs of today?
I think Graft is better.
http://www.gormand.com.au/peters/tools/
GNU Stow is also similar to encap. I installed Linux from scratch and use Graft for my package management.
I got an estimate. It would cost me $1200. If you know of anybody who does this for say, $300, then let me know.