Look, the Time Machine thing is cool. Yes, I know about MS Shadow Copy and I have used NetApps with snapshots for years. Also ZFS from Sun (The best filesystem ever) has the snapshot feature. Now, show me one of these that has made it so simple for an end user to use? Hum...thats what I thought.
Apple is about two things, innovation for new ideas and innovation with old ideas but making them work better and be accessible to the average user. Hey Slashdot - you are not an average user. Your mother, your grandmother or the users you support at your IT job are. Ever try to explain to and end user "Well just open explorer and the turn hide hidden files off, then you will see a file called.filename. Just make a copy of that and...." ????
Maybe the NSA should be outsourced to Inida or something. I think there is something there with this idea.... Google really should do some sort of SETI@Home style code that people can pay to run on their network of 100K+ machines. The NSA could outsource their cracking of your BitTorret downloads and all the stuff they are getting from ATT&T to Google. It would be great for the stock market! Buy American damn it!
Did not Sun has some GRID type project the NSA could use?
www.beastproject.org (I will be checking the logs for the IP space from the NSA - as should you all!)
I have a 2006 Honda CR-V. I bought the Honda iLink. It sucks. Stay away. It comes with a crappy software prg that goes and makes a talking name/artist for each song. It is an AppleScript (compiled I think) that does not even really work! I tried it on a library of 2000 tunes and it errors out half way thru. There are no updates and the company that wrote the code does not support it - call Honda they say. Did I say that the 2000 tunes takes about 40 mins to run? Wonder how it is going to work on my full collection of 38K.
Tried it. The sound sucked. I could hear it and I am not an audiofile.;) Trust me it sucks. The Flogging Molly CD I paid $9.99 for on iTunes I then paid another $10 on amazon. DRM is evil, no matter how cool the product is (ITMS is great for that impulse buy of something you just remember or heard on the radio).
I love iTunes. And I love the music store. Lately I have found myself buying CDs that I downloaded from the music store because I wanted non-DRM copies so I can share them on my home network that includes non-iTunes using boxes. I do not think I will be buying anything else from iTunes.
Hum. Really. Let's see. From Sun I can get a 4U 24TB RAID box with 4 or 8 x AMD64. Show me the white box I can do that with. From Sun I can get a single CPU box that had 32 core/threads on one chip at 70W. Show me....ah fuck it. Everyone that give Sun shit has never had to run a large scale production network (Large scale = 500+ boxes and many many OC-x circuts with 99.9999% uptime).
I have a working game console at home. Only one. It is an Atari 2600 with about 100 games. Last Friday I went to a friends and played on his Xbox 360. We played Ghost Recon. The graphics were good and the game was fun. There was just one issue. The Xbox kept locking up hard and had to be rebooted every 20 minuets or so. Maybe the heat issue I have read about. There was another issue he asked me to talk a look at. The Xbox could get to the internet but would not see is local network or computer (after following the MS supplies instructions) so he could not share his music with the Xbox. I looked at it as well (I am a network design guy). I could not get it to work. I can say I am not to surprised by all of this. It is what I have come to expect from MS. I am not sure why I thought their gaming systems would be any different. I was thinking about getting a 360. Now I think I will see how the PS3 is.....
1. I could careless about the OSS stuff. Binary drivers under X are fine with me. 2. They may make the best hardware however their drivers under any OS just suck. I have never had a stable system with an ATI card even when starting with a clean install. 3. Nvidia would be a better fit.
In 2001 when the.bomb was causing router companies (there were like 4 startups + the big 2) to drop like flies I proposed to a friend that we do a router company. He thought I was nuts until I told him I wanted to make a core router that could crack each and every packet and make routing/QoS choices based on what is in the packet. He ask why and I said "So INSERT TELCO HERE can charge Yahoo more to make sure that their packet is favored over Google." He said, "Naw the net is neutral. They government would never let them do that." I wish I had started that company now.
I would just install FreeBSD 6.1. The handbook is great and pretty much explains everything. Setup PF for the firewall and you can use webadmin for the GUI if need be.
With all the issues with domestic spying, the NSA, el. al. I am very happy to hear this. At this point I do not trust my government one bit and I am happy to see that the EU is taking a stand as our congress will not. I never thought I would say this but I am looking forward to the 2008 elections so we can be rid of Bush and his crew. Check out my other thoughts at http://www.beastproject.org/
The funny part is that I used to be a Republican. They have scared off all the good people in the party at this point. I want Reagan back!
So a Dual core 2.0Ghz Intel is only 1.2-1.3 times faster then the SINGLE CORE 2.1Ghz G5? Seems to solve the issue once and for all - the PPC is a better chip as far as RAW power goes. The only reason Apple went Intel was for the laptop chips (typing this on my G4 iBook). Lets face it, the PowerBooks, et. al. were getting behind the curve as far as the CPU went. To bad seeing as how the G5 is a better CPU when it comes to RAW power.
I use Safari for 90% of my stuff, however another nice broswer is Camino. It is a Apple-i-fied version of Firefox. You can get it at mozilla.org - just make sure the get the nightly build as the release is very behind.
Let me get this right. The CEO of a very powerfull company said "but I ain't going", where the correct way would be "but I am not going"? Damn, CEO and still cannot speak proper English. Pretty scary.
Well I have had 30+ boxes because I am in the biz and needed them.
I have a nice Sun SPARC 5 under my desk as a firewall that has the uptime over a year and is now over 10 years old with the orginal equipment. Lets see you do that smart ass.
Oh, I have built an Internet backbone or two and server farms over over 1000 machines. Lets talk again when you can say the same thing;)
Apple makes well thought out hardware with a good designed and pays attention to the details about heat, etc. That is why they last. Not to mention they have some style to them. I am willing to pay for good design & engineering. It is also the reason I drive a MB.
Stuff happends. It is hard to test a life time on a product before it is released. Apple fixed the issues. That is all that matters. Also this is a small subset of the total released product line. In general Apple hardware is very reliable. Now, I worked at a company that had 50 or so Dell desktops. Each one died (differently) inside of 2 years. At another firm we had hugh clusters of Dell servers (over 100). IIRC, we lost about 2 a month (harddive, motherboard, power). Now this was a cluster and dual power, hd, etc. so it kept running but still...I will say that Dell was good about fixing the issues with the servers. The desktop support is lackluster.
On the PC hardware side the only vendor comes in at Apples level of reliability is IBM. Heck, I still have a PS2 9595 that is up and running! I do not have the links handy but for the last few years the surveys for reliablity and customer happiness and hardware reliability have had Apple and IBM at the top. Now both Apple and IBM charge more then the nearest whitle box maker (Dell, et. al.). Seems to me that there is something to it..you get what you pay for.
I have built maybe 30 or so white box intel/amd hardware computer over the years, starting back with the 386. I have also owned a Dual 500 Mac, and 2 iBooks. At the end of the day, I would pay $400 more for the Apple hardware vs. building it myself. My Apple hardware just works, never breaks (and that goes for my friends that have about 20 Macs between them). I cannot say the same thing for any of the PC hardware. Sure I have had some systems, PC, that just keep working, but in the end the quality of the PC systems (not to mention style!) was just not there.
I am so having a hard time with caring about this. Heck, there is part of me that wants to jump up and down going "yes!!!, one down, only 1000 or so more to go..."
..very well, just look at the Oil For Food program. That was very well run. No corruption there. Or the Human Rights Commission. I mean what better members are there then China, Sudan, Zimbabwe....
It is funny. After the fall of the USSR I made a bet with a friend that we would see a strong unified world governing body within the next 50-75 years. At this point I have changed my tune. The US should leave the UN and form an organization of like mined democracies.
The firewall in Solaris 8/9 is called sunscreen and is one of the 4 install CDs for the OS (CD2 in the EA dir I was just told). It was an option to install during a custom install but you can add it later with pkgadd.
I am not a Republican and I do not belive in God. I served in the Army and would recommend it to young people. (Wow, that sounds strange as I am only 33!) If you look at stats of those that are succesful in life, in business or just in general the more succesful people most likely gave service. The U.S. military does not want mindless zombies. People that cannot think on their feet tend to get killed. Smart people kill the other guy.
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Ultima 1-4 (Yes I know you can get the PC set but is sucks vs. C64 version), Law of the West, Wasteland, Neuromancer, Bard's Tail 1-3.
Look, the Time Machine thing is cool. Yes, I know about MS Shadow Copy and I have used NetApps with snapshots for years. Also ZFS from Sun (The best filesystem ever) has the snapshot feature. Now, show me one of these that has made it so simple for an end user to use? Hum...thats what I thought.
.filename. Just make a copy of that and...." ????
Apple is about two things, innovation for new ideas and innovation with old ideas but making them work better and be accessible to the average user. Hey Slashdot - you are not an average user. Your mother, your grandmother or the users you support at your IT job are. Ever try to explain to and end user "Well just open explorer and the turn hide hidden files off, then you will see a file called
http://www.beastproject.org/
Maybe the NSA should be outsourced to Inida or something. I think there is something there with this idea.... Google really should do some sort of SETI@Home style code that people can pay to run on their network of 100K+ machines. The NSA could outsource their cracking of your BitTorret downloads and all the stuff they are getting from ATT&T to Google. It would be great for the stock market! Buy American damn it!
Did not Sun has some GRID type project the NSA could use?
www.beastproject.org (I will be checking the logs for the IP space from the NSA - as should you all!)
I have a 2006 Honda CR-V. I bought the Honda iLink. It sucks. Stay away. It comes with a crappy software prg that goes and makes a talking name/artist for each song. It is an AppleScript (compiled I think) that does not even really work! I tried it on a library of 2000 tunes and it errors out half way thru. There are no updates and the company that wrote the code does not support it - call Honda they say. Did I say that the 2000 tunes takes about 40 mins to run? Wonder how it is going to work on my full collection of 38K.
www.beastproject.org
Tried it. The sound sucked. I could hear it and I am not an audiofile. ;) Trust me it sucks. The Flogging Molly CD I paid $9.99 for on iTunes I then paid another $10 on amazon. DRM is evil, no matter how cool the product is (ITMS is great for that impulse buy of something you just remember or heard on the radio).
www.beastproject.org
I love iTunes. And I love the music store. Lately I have found myself buying CDs that I downloaded from the music store because I wanted non-DRM copies so I can share them on my home network that includes non-iTunes using boxes. I do not think I will be buying anything else from iTunes.
www.beastproject.org
Hum. Really. Let's see. From Sun I can get a 4U 24TB RAID box with 4 or 8 x AMD64. Show me the white box I can do that with. From Sun I can get a single CPU box that had 32 core/threads on one chip at 70W. Show me....ah fuck it. Everyone that give Sun shit has never had to run a large scale production network (Large scale = 500+ boxes and many many OC-x circuts with 99.9999% uptime).
http://www.beastproject.org/
I have a working game console at home. Only one. It is an Atari 2600 with about 100 games. Last Friday I went to a friends and played on his Xbox 360. We played Ghost Recon. The graphics were good and the game was fun. There was just one issue. The Xbox kept locking up hard and had to be rebooted every 20 minuets or so. Maybe the heat issue I have read about. There was another issue he asked me to talk a look at. The Xbox could get to the internet but would not see is local network or computer (after following the MS supplies instructions) so he could not share his music with the Xbox. I looked at it as well (I am a network design guy). I could not get it to work. I can say I am not to surprised by all of this. It is what I have come to expect from MS. I am not sure why I thought their gaming systems would be any different. I was thinking about getting a 360. Now I think I will see how the PS3 is.....
1. I could careless about the OSS stuff. Binary drivers under X are fine with me.
2. They may make the best hardware however their drivers under any OS just suck. I have never had a stable system with an ATI card even when starting with a clean install.
3. Nvidia would be a better fit.
http://www.beastproject.org/
In 2001 when the .bomb was causing router companies (there were like 4 startups + the big 2) to drop like flies I proposed to a friend that we do a router company. He thought I was nuts until I told him I wanted to make a core router that could crack each and every packet and make routing/QoS choices based on what is in the packet. He ask why and I said "So INSERT TELCO HERE can charge Yahoo more to make sure that their packet is favored over Google." He said, "Naw the net is neutral. They government would never let them do that." I wish I had started that company now.
-Sean (http://www.beastproject.org/)
I would just install FreeBSD 6.1. The handbook is great and pretty much explains everything. Setup PF for the firewall and you can use webadmin for the GUI if need be.
-Sean (http://www.beastproject.org/)
With all the issues with domestic spying, the NSA, el. al. I am very happy to hear this. At this point I do not trust my government one bit and I am happy to see that the EU is taking a stand as our congress will not. I never thought I would say this but I am looking forward to the 2008 elections so we can be rid of Bush and his crew. Check out my other thoughts at http://www.beastproject.org/
The funny part is that I used to be a Republican. They have scared off all the good people in the party at this point. I want Reagan back!
So a Dual core 2.0Ghz Intel is only 1.2-1.3 times faster then the SINGLE CORE 2.1Ghz G5? Seems to solve the issue once and for all - the PPC is a better chip as far as RAW power goes. The only reason Apple went Intel was for the laptop chips (typing this on my G4 iBook). Lets face it, the PowerBooks, et. al. were getting behind the curve as far as the CPU went. To bad seeing as how the G5 is a better CPU when it comes to RAW power.
Still, I plan on getting a new Mac Book Pro.
I use Safari for 90% of my stuff, however another nice broswer is Camino. It is a Apple-i-fied version of Firefox. You can get it at mozilla.org - just make sure the get the nightly build as the release is very behind.
Let me get this right. The CEO of a very powerfull company said "but I ain't going", where the correct way would be "but I am not going"? Damn, CEO and still cannot speak proper English. Pretty scary.
Well I have had 30+ boxes because I am in the biz and needed them.
;)
I have a nice Sun SPARC 5 under my desk as a firewall that has the uptime over a year and is now over 10 years old with the orginal equipment. Lets see you do that smart ass.
Oh, I have built an Internet backbone or two and server farms over over 1000 machines. Lets talk again when you can say the same thing
Apple makes well thought out hardware with a good designed and pays attention to the details about heat, etc. That is why they last. Not to mention they have some style to them. I am willing to pay for good design & engineering. It is also the reason I drive a MB.
To each his own...
Stuff happends. It is hard to test a life time on a product before it is released. Apple fixed the issues. That is all that matters. Also this is a small subset of the total released product line. In general Apple hardware is very reliable. Now, I worked at a company that had 50 or so Dell desktops. Each one died (differently) inside of 2 years. At another firm we had hugh clusters of Dell servers (over 100). IIRC, we lost about 2 a month (harddive, motherboard, power). Now this was a cluster and dual power, hd, etc. so it kept running but still...I will say that Dell was good about fixing the issues with the servers. The desktop support is lackluster.
On the PC hardware side the only vendor comes in at Apples level of reliability is IBM. Heck, I still have a PS2 9595 that is up and running! I do not have the links handy but for the last few years the surveys for reliablity and customer happiness and hardware reliability have had Apple and IBM at the top. Now both Apple and IBM charge more then the nearest whitle box maker (Dell, et. al.). Seems to me that there is something to it..you get what you pay for.
I have built maybe 30 or so white box intel/amd hardware computer over the years, starting back with the 386. I have also owned a Dual 500 Mac, and 2 iBooks. At the end of the day, I would pay $400 more for the Apple hardware vs. building it myself. My Apple hardware just works, never breaks (and that goes for my friends that have about 20 Macs between them). I cannot say the same thing for any of the PC hardware. Sure I have had some systems, PC, that just keep working, but in the end the quality of the PC systems (not to mention style!) was just not there.
Di551 and Bizhub C350...
We will see if I am returning these to Minolta..
I am so having a hard time with caring about this. Heck, there is part of me that wants to jump up and down going "yes!!!, one down, only 1000 or so more to go..."
..very well, just look at the Oil For Food program. That was very well run. No corruption there. Or the Human Rights Commission. I mean what better members are there then China, Sudan, Zimbabwe....
It is funny. After the fall of the USSR I made a bet with a friend that we would see a strong unified world governing body within the next 50-75 years. At this point I have changed my tune. The US should leave the UN and form an organization of like mined democracies.
Ah, no, never SPARC. x86, PPC, MIPS, Alpha.
The firewall in Solaris 8/9 is called sunscreen and is one of the 4 install CDs for the OS (CD2 in the EA dir I was just told). It was an option to install during a custom install but you can add it later with pkgadd.
Ah, no.
IPF ships with Solaris 10 and Solaris 8/9 had the Sun Firewall on one of the CDs.
IPtables is very convoluted, powerfull but screwy. PF (OpenBSD/FreeBSD) is the best IMNSHO.
Your a dumbass.
I am not a Republican and I do not belive in God. I served in the Army and would recommend it to young people. (Wow, that sounds strange as I am only 33!) If you look at stats of those that are succesful in life, in business or just in general the more succesful people most likely gave service. The U.S. military does not want mindless zombies. People that cannot think on their feet tend to get killed. Smart people kill the other guy.