The WD 2TB drives that NCIX were shipping on Tuesday show a manufacturing date of June 23, 2011. I find it a bit of a stretch that the almost four months supply of drives have been sold in three days time. Even if I am incorrectly estimating the size of the pipe neither of us can deny there are cargo containers with drives in them (all with pre-flood dates) still on their way to destination ports all over the world (cargo shipping takes around 25 days from Malaysia to the USA). If we haven't used up what is coming down pipe then there shouldn't be 'shortage' pricing. At pre-flood consumption rates there will be no true shortages in North America for at least three weeks. So, yes, I would agree that retailers (or whoever changed the prices) are gouging at the moment.
I've had memory issues with Firefox, however, they were caused by an interaction between one site and one plugin. I found that when using Adblock+ and started looking at maps on Google (in satellite view) and panning around the memory would steadily increase until I either navigated away from Google maps or the browser crashed (after a period of worsening sluggishnes). Even stranger was the memory use stopped increasing but didn't decrease when navigating away from the offending site. Only restarting the browser freed all the memory. After adding: @@|http://maps.google.*/ to the exceptions list in Adblock+ the problem disappeared. Here I was blaming Firefox for something it didn't do on its own..:) Plugin interactions have caused many strange things to happen...
My home desktop motherboard does AGP, and none of the AGP graphics cards I can find support 1920x1200
you can still get agp cards that will do 1920x1200 such as a Radeon X1950PRO 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 AGP 8X HDCP Ready IceQ3 Turbo Video Card. that's about as good as it gets for agp. the x1950 card is approximately twice as fast as the x850 that i'm using... and i use my x850 at 1920x1200. i am able to run some games at that res such as unreal tournament 2004. the x19xx chips were made for pci express but the cards have a bridge chip on them to make them work as agp (when the x1950 was new it was sold in both agp and pci-express flavours). full hd video playback might still be a bit iffy on a single core setup but if you're lucky enough to have dual core support on your agp board then you won't have any major issues. the only reason i'm not running one of those cards is because of a bridge chip compatibility issue with my particular board (asus a8v deluxe.. the a8v-mx variant runs it just fine).
i don't have a problem with paying for a license. i can't buy one from here in canada. the bbc won't sell access to quality streams here in north america even if you (somehow) can prove you paid for one.
i suspect it's got something to do with the security system they have. possibly ultrasonic motion detector devices. in the past i had been to a couple of museums that had ultrasonic motion detectors in them (i asked what the awful noise was). they were very loud and, i'm guessing, around 21khz.
it comes back to you... kind of like switching between a telephone and a keyboard number pad and typing phone numbers. alternating keyboards is a lot like riding different bicycles... it's just much harder to put baseball cards in the spokes.
bloat seems to be a relative term. i'd call it bloated if after a full install of however many hundreds of megs or even a couple of gigs that support for all the basic features i use and expect (and are included on other distros) still need to be manually located and installed from various sources on the net.
yeah, i know, stay with the other distros then... but if i was reviewing fc4 like in the article i'd be calling it bloated too. i'd have that feeling of "i did an 'everything' install and it still doesn't do very much"
It's unacceptable that in 2005 a Linux distribution (FC3, in my case) doesn't recognize a three-button+wheel USB mouse out-of-box or that setting up a TV card requires you to edit some config-files by hand.
FC3? It detected my mouse just fine.. It, however, didn't understand other hardware.
For example, no Linux with proper drivers installed can access drives connected to a Promise TX2+'s PATA cable but a clean DOS disk can? Something's terribly wrong with this picture! Nevermind getting a TV card to work. MP3 files and the ability to access drives with FAT32 or NTFS on them are not part of an "everything" install of FC3. Unbelieveable! I'm suspecting MP2 files (from TV captures) aren't supported as well under FC3 but wasn't able to verify that part because I couldn't access any of my existing partitions with an FC3 install!
Before people reply and say "you suck" or "try another distro" I know there are tons of other distros out there but none of them support the PATA half of my Promise controller card while DOS and Windows have always done so. Seriously, for Linux to be accepted as a real alternative to other OS's it must have proper hardware support even if i have to dig a little for it, which is more than most are willing to do.
*this is not a flame... really! if anyone cares to provide serious answers to anything below i'd be grateful*
i don't understand what it is about tabbed browsing that people *like*?
what happens in tabbed browsing when a page tries to force your browser to resize? do all your tabs resize? does it un-maximize all the windows because all mdi windows obey the maximize preference of the one you clicked on?
i've noticed on firefox that even if you disable tabbing the "open in new tab" is still taking up an option in your right-click and there's now a blank area near the toolbar where the tabs used to be and now it's just taking up space and does nothing. am i the only one who thinks this is wasted space?
how long is it going to be before we start seeing slashdot stories about cross-tab security problems in ie?:)
am i the only one who opens up multiple browsers (each in their own memory space) on purpose?
am i the only one who uses the middle-click to (gasp) smooth scroll in windows? and who doesn't care for "other applications" to hijack os-wide mouse preferences?
am i the only one here who blocks malicious or annoying web content before the browser has the chance the parse it so browser pop-up blockers etc. don't end up doing anything anyway?
will non-ie browsers ever be able to come close to ie's performance in the area of screen writes and lower cpu usage when scrolling? (i have a system with reasonable specs amd64, geforce4, 2gigs ram but this is very noticeable)
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The WD 2TB drives that NCIX were shipping on Tuesday show a manufacturing date of June 23, 2011. I find it a bit of a stretch that the almost four months supply of drives have been sold in three days time. Even if I am incorrectly estimating the size of the pipe neither of us can deny there are cargo containers with drives in them (all with pre-flood dates) still on their way to destination ports all over the world (cargo shipping takes around 25 days from Malaysia to the USA). If we haven't used up what is coming down pipe then there shouldn't be 'shortage' pricing. At pre-flood consumption rates there will be no true shortages in North America for at least three weeks. So, yes, I would agree that retailers (or whoever changed the prices) are gouging at the moment.
I've had memory issues with Firefox, however, they were caused by an interaction between one site and one plugin. I found that when using Adblock+ and started looking at maps on Google (in satellite view) and panning around the memory would steadily increase until I either navigated away from Google maps or the browser crashed (after a period of worsening sluggishnes). Even stranger was the memory use stopped increasing but didn't decrease when navigating away from the offending site. Only restarting the browser freed all the memory. After adding: @@|http://maps.google.*/ to the exceptions list in Adblock+ the problem disappeared. Here I was blaming Firefox for something it didn't do on its own.. :) Plugin interactions have caused many strange things to happen...
My home desktop motherboard does AGP, and none of the AGP graphics cards I can find support 1920x1200
you can still get agp cards that will do 1920x1200 such as a Radeon X1950PRO 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 AGP 8X HDCP Ready IceQ3 Turbo Video Card. that's about as good as it gets for agp. the x1950 card is approximately twice as fast as the x850 that i'm using... and i use my x850 at 1920x1200. i am able to run some games at that res such as unreal tournament 2004. the x19xx chips were made for pci express but the cards have a bridge chip on them to make them work as agp (when the x1950 was new it was sold in both agp and pci-express flavours). full hd video playback might still be a bit iffy on a single core setup but if you're lucky enough to have dual core support on your agp board then you won't have any major issues. the only reason i'm not running one of those cards is because of a bridge chip compatibility issue with my particular board (asus a8v deluxe.. the a8v-mx variant runs it just fine).
As a Canadian i have to take issue with the way you spelled 'oot'.
i don't have a problem with paying for a license. i can't buy one from here in canada. the bbc won't sell access to quality streams here in north america even if you (somehow) can prove you paid for one.
i have a clear conscience on this one.
sympatico to sympatico emails are taking upwards of 1-2 days or not at all sometimes... other times are just fine :/
isn't this basically the same concept as a dlp television?
at last a card with an onboard bat'leth..
Qapla'!
i've had things like that happen as well ... usually it was traced back to the trident video drivers :)
i suspect it's got something to do with the security system they have. possibly ultrasonic motion detector devices. in the past i had been to a couple of museums that had ultrasonic motion detectors in them (i asked what the awful noise was). they were very loud and, i'm guessing, around 21khz.
Many people are completely uninterested. They think it's nonsense, a waste of time
i'm sure he could figure out exactly how much time he wasted..
In which case the extra cost to replace your socket 754 board & cpu with a similarly performing socket 939 cpu plus matching pci-e board
My board has socket 939 but does not come with pci-e. It has AGP.
..on the internets!
Same way they backed up 40MB drives 15 years ago...
on 360KB floppies??
1.25 (Canadian dollars per litre) = 3.99136659 U.S. dollars per US gallon
it comes back to you... kind of like switching between a telephone and a keyboard number pad and typing phone numbers. alternating keyboards is a lot like riding different bicycles... it's just much harder to put baseball cards in the spokes.
bloat seems to be a relative term. i'd call it bloated if after a full install of however many hundreds of megs or even a couple of gigs that support for all the basic features i use and expect (and are included on other distros) still need to be manually located and installed from various sources on the net.
yeah, i know, stay with the other distros then... but if i was reviewing fc4 like in the article i'd be calling it bloated too. i'd have that feeling of "i did an 'everything' install and it still doesn't do very much"
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that's all i've ever seen from google earth
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It's unacceptable that in 2005 a Linux distribution (FC3, in my case) doesn't recognize a three-button+wheel USB mouse out-of-box or that setting up a TV card requires you to edit some config-files by hand.
FC3? It detected my mouse just fine.. It, however, didn't understand other hardware.
For example, no Linux with proper drivers installed can access drives connected to a Promise TX2+'s PATA cable but a clean DOS disk can? Something's terribly wrong with this picture! Nevermind getting a TV card to work. MP3 files and the ability to access drives with FAT32 or NTFS on them are not part of an "everything" install of FC3. Unbelieveable! I'm suspecting MP2 files (from TV captures) aren't supported as well under FC3 but wasn't able to verify that part because I couldn't access any of my existing partitions with an FC3 install!
Before people reply and say "you suck" or "try another distro" I know there are tons of other distros out there but none of them support the PATA half of my Promise controller card while DOS and Windows have always done so. Seriously, for Linux to be accepted as a real alternative to other OS's it must have proper hardware support even if i have to dig a little for it, which is more than most are willing to do.
smeprini
store it in a shielded sleeve until you use it?
*this is not a flame... really! if anyone cares to provide serious answers to anything below i'd be grateful*
:)
i don't understand what it is about tabbed browsing that people *like*?
what happens in tabbed browsing when a page tries to force your browser to resize? do all your tabs resize? does it un-maximize all the windows because all mdi windows obey the maximize preference of the one you clicked on?
i've noticed on firefox that even if you disable tabbing the "open in new tab" is still taking up an option in your right-click and there's now a blank area near the toolbar where the tabs used to be and now it's just taking up space and does nothing. am i the only one who thinks this is wasted space?
how long is it going to be before we start seeing slashdot stories about cross-tab security problems in ie?
am i the only one who opens up multiple browsers (each in their own memory space) on purpose?
am i the only one who uses the middle-click to (gasp) smooth scroll in windows? and who doesn't care for "other applications" to hijack os-wide mouse preferences?
am i the only one here who blocks malicious or annoying web content before the browser has the chance the parse it so browser pop-up blockers etc. don't end up doing anything anyway?
will non-ie browsers ever be able to come close to ie's performance in the area of screen writes and lower cpu usage when scrolling? (i have a system with reasonable specs amd64, geforce4, 2gigs ram but this is very noticeable)
also showing the bridge construction on carling at the transitway
...and call it the NABU Network?