Why fanboys? This is precisely what meta-distributions like Gentoo are for, chuck. Ultra-tweakers are a (vocal) minority of Gentoo users - the rest of us value Gentoo for its flexibility.
I couldn't have said it better. I love how people think your a fanboy if you start to speak your mind about a distribution.
Trivialize any security bug in OSS as no big deal and "theoretical". Call any MS bug horrible and say "OMG everyone should switch".
Doesn't anyone else find this hilarious?
No, you're the only one. Most every MS bug has a real-life gaping security hole, and most of the time the code to exploit it is rolling through the 0-day exploit sites in no time.
Back in 2001, they offered quite a few motherboards with ISA/PCI combinations, and the riser slots for modems weren't used too frequently. (never quite understood why you'd need a special slot for a modem)
So until Linux gets to the point where the average person can just download a file, and just click to install, it's far from "ready for the desktop." To say that emerge -a 'less world' is easier than doubleclicking a setup file is a poor argument.
Mandrake has had this feature for quite some time. Gentoo has kportage, also. I think Redhat might have something like Mandrake has, I haven't used RH or Mandrake's desktop environment in years.
emerge is a commandline tool, and so is urpmi. Just use a GUI tool that works overtop of the tools, they are out there.
Or if you really want, lindows (or Linspire, or whatever else they call themselves) is always out there....
I don't know if you've actually battle-tested this, but you'll almost certainly find it won't work because/boot (or wherever your kernel and initrd are) can't be on a RAID partiition.
Sure you can, since grub will boot off a raid1 partition easily. I do it on all of my remote servers, separate raid "array" for/boot,/, and a backup OS array just in case. As long as the kernel has support for raid built in (or you have the modules in an initrd), you'll be fine with a RAID1/boot with grub.
The same goes with the IDE expansion cards they are selling. It basically adds another IRQ setup, along with 2 other IDE channels to plug into. Essentially giving you 2 more drives to put into an IDE software raid array. (just keep slapping the cards in)
Pretty much almost all non-scsi raid cards are software raid in a driver. Except for 3ware, they make a damn fine card. You pay the money, though.
I use software raid on our production field servers where the machine losing a drive would be catastrophic due to the fact that it'd take at least a day to get out there and fix. I use raid1, and it's worked flawlessly. I've had a few failures (western digital.... I'm going to maxtor) and all of those times it's just purred along nicely.
hmmm if your speculation were correct, then DVD players would be sold for profit since DVDs are being pirated by everyone.
If MPAA couldn't restrict the copy protection on DVDs, they'll have to start selling them at profit. That means $400-$500 for a DVD player instead of $100-$200.
In return for this, a tiny proportation of geeks will get a "good feeling" that their DVD player is "just like their VCR".
Only an idiot would go for that deal.
By the way, that was sarcasm meant to prove a point. We've been able to rip and burn dvds for years now, and other than a very tiny margin of pirating from people who are too cheap to purchase anyway (as in any market you have this), the world has not fallen apart and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome hasn't came to be...
Wait, wait, wait. You're from the USA and complain about bad beer? You can't be serious.
Not everyone drinks that goatpiss known as budweiser/coors.
American beer is by far not that. Yes, that is pretty sad beer.. only thing it's good for is to season crabs when your cooking them:P There are half a zillion microbreweries in America that aren't owned by budweiser or coors... not to mention what comes out of Cooperstown, NY.
You sound like my dad. Who, incidentally, despite all his sage and practical advice on life, is now dying alone in a house full of the useless junk he spent his life acquiring.
Only in todays society can a person dedicate their life to providing for their family, and have the remnants pushed into their face as they are dieing.. left alone and disposed as if they are garbage of society.
Did you complain to management or to the police? Assault with a deadly weapon isn't something the police usually take lightly.
Not to mention that at that point a keyboard makes a pretty good weapon... I know if my manager thought about doing that, there'd be blood flying. But then again I'm friends with my management, so that'd be the last thing they'd do.
Funny, I am having a hard time finding those IE DLLs on any of my Linux boxes.
As far as speed of loading and use? In a comparison of FF (Native) to IE (Wine... we are talking about Wine, here right?). Then IE is an absolute joke. FF blows IE away on EVERY speed area. App loading, page loading, etc.
Actually I think the original poster was referring to all code being ran natively on Windows. Firefox is also on Windows, so you can run it side-by-side IE. It's been my experience (P4-1.8ghz, 512Mb ram, single 7200rpm 8mb cache UDMA100 drive running Win2K) that IE is indeed faster, but only by a small margin. Just my own judgement, I think it has alot to do with the amount of disk access.
The same system runs Gentoo (99.9% of the time) and wine pulls IE up screaming fast.. faster than Windows does. I use firefox exclusively, but there are some sites I go to that require IE, and won't work by telling it your running IE. (damn extensions)
People buy LCDs because they are crisp, don't take up much space, and don't flicker.
Well, don't flicker unless you've got half a billion different colors changing on an image that is constantly moving on your screen with a heavy saturation.
But you're absolutely right... there's no coolness factor anymore with LCD. Basically if you buy CRT now, you either have a need for something specific in CRT, or you just don't know the advantages of LCD. Even at Fry's electronics, they have relinquished CRT to a single row, almost. LCD comprises approximately 1/4-1/3 of the computer section.
More seriously, is it possible to split up a single desktop onto multiple monitors?? I mean so you could have ridiculously high effective resolution, if not as extreme as that Texas-sized monitor:)
Yep, my manager does it with his laptop onto his 2nd LCD screen. It just extends the desktop to 2 monitors. I believe you can do it with X, but I've never done it because that's not something I've tried yet.
The amount of radiation from a CRT has been known for years. It's been dismissed under the guise that it's only emitted from the back (!).
Now, it might not be a significant amount of radiation (not sure how the "green" stuff effected that) but it can be enough radiation to effect people who are particularly sensitive. Mutliple monitors only raise that amount.
I can tell you this, after I got my 21 inch CRT out of my room, and replaced it with a 19 inch ViewSonic LCD (2 actually, one for my wife also to replace her 17 inch CRT), not only was the room cooler temperature wise, but a general lathargicness that we both had while in that room either reading or doing whatever was gone.
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Why fanboys? This is precisely what meta-distributions like Gentoo are for, chuck.
Ultra-tweakers are a (vocal) minority of Gentoo users - the rest of us value Gentoo for its flexibility.
I couldn't have said it better. I love how people think your a fanboy if you start to speak your mind about a distribution.
Trivialize any security bug in OSS as no big deal and "theoretical". Call any MS bug horrible and say "OMG everyone should switch".
Doesn't anyone else find this hilarious?
No, you're the only one.
Most every MS bug has a real-life gaping security hole, and most of the time the code to exploit it is rolling through the 0-day exploit sites in no time.
So.. no, no one else finds it hilarious.
Back in 2001, they offered quite a few motherboards with ISA/PCI combinations, and the riser slots for modems weren't used too frequently.
(never quite understood why you'd need a special slot for a modem)
I believe they were talking about in regards to the atmospheric pressure. It's not the same as earth obviously.
So until Linux gets to the point where the average person can just download a file, and just click to install, it's far from "ready for the desktop." To say that emerge -a 'less world' is easier than doubleclicking a setup file is a poor argument.
Mandrake has had this feature for quite some time. Gentoo has kportage, also. I think Redhat might have something like Mandrake has, I haven't used RH or Mandrake's desktop environment in years.
emerge is a commandline tool, and so is urpmi. Just use a GUI tool that works overtop of the tools, they are out there.
Or if you really want, lindows (or Linspire, or whatever else they call themselves) is always out there....
How do you deal with /boot (or wherever your kernel and initrd are) not being able to be on the RAID device ?
It does... try it sometime. One caveat, it has to be RAID1.
I don't know if you've actually battle-tested this, but you'll almost certainly find it won't work because /boot (or wherever your kernel and initrd are) can't be on a RAID partiition.
/boot, /, and a backup OS array just in case. /boot with grub.
Sure you can, since grub will boot off a raid1 partition easily. I do it on all of my remote servers, separate raid "array" for
As long as the kernel has support for raid built in (or you have the modules in an initrd), you'll be fine with a RAID1
The same goes with the IDE expansion cards they are selling. It basically adds another IRQ setup, along with 2 other IDE channels to plug into. Essentially giving you 2 more drives to put into an IDE software raid array. (just keep slapping the cards in)
Pretty much almost all non-scsi raid cards are software raid in a driver.
Except for 3ware, they make a damn fine card. You pay the money, though.
I use software raid on our production field servers where the machine losing a drive would be catastrophic due to the fact that it'd take at least a day to get out there and fix. I use raid1, and it's worked flawlessly. I've had a few failures (western digital.... I'm going to maxtor) and all of those times it's just purred along nicely.
I guess I shoulda put this in a separate post.
Mountains don't run off of solar power...
Well, New Zealand has that luxury - secure in the knowledge that Australia will shield it, both physically and economically, from any hard decisions.
:P
Wait.. New Zealand's a country?
I always thought it was just an annex of Australia
(JOKE)
hmmm if your speculation were correct, then DVD players would be sold for profit since DVDs are being pirated by everyone.
If MPAA couldn't restrict the copy protection on DVDs, they'll have to start selling them at profit. That means $400-$500 for a DVD player instead of $100-$200.
In return for this, a tiny proportation of geeks will get a "good feeling" that their DVD player is "just like their VCR".
Only an idiot would go for that deal.
By the way, that was sarcasm meant to prove a point. We've been able to rip and burn dvds for years now, and other than a very tiny margin of pirating from people who are too cheap to purchase anyway (as in any market you have this), the world has not fallen apart and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome hasn't came to be...
Wait, wait, wait. You're from the USA and complain about bad beer? You can't be serious.
:P There are half a zillion microbreweries in America that aren't owned by budweiser or coors... not to mention what comes out of Cooperstown, NY.
Not everyone drinks that goatpiss known as budweiser/coors.
American beer is by far not that. Yes, that is pretty sad beer.. only thing it's good for is to season crabs when your cooking them
Not to discount Belgium beer at all.. mmmmm
Keep livin' the dream, cubicle drone.
You sound like my dad. Who, incidentally, despite all his sage and practical advice on life, is now dying alone in a house full of the useless junk he spent his life acquiring.
Only in todays society can a person dedicate their life to providing for their family, and have the remnants pushed into their face as they are dieing.. left alone and disposed as if they are garbage of society.
Did you complain to management or to the police? Assault with a deadly weapon isn't something the police usually take lightly.
Not to mention that at that point a keyboard makes a pretty good weapon...
I know if my manager thought about doing that, there'd be blood flying. But then again I'm friends with my management, so that'd be the last thing they'd do.
Funny, I am having a hard time finding those IE DLLs on any of my Linux boxes.
As far as speed of loading and use? In a comparison of FF (Native) to IE (Wine... we are talking about Wine, here right?). Then IE is an absolute joke. FF blows IE away on EVERY speed area. App loading, page loading, etc.
Actually I think the original poster was referring to all code being ran natively on Windows. Firefox is also on Windows, so you can run it side-by-side IE.
It's been my experience (P4-1.8ghz, 512Mb ram, single 7200rpm 8mb cache UDMA100 drive running Win2K) that IE is indeed faster, but only by a small margin. Just my own judgement, I think it has alot to do with the amount of disk access.
The same system runs Gentoo (99.9% of the time) and wine pulls IE up screaming fast.. faster than Windows does. I use firefox exclusively, but there are some sites I go to that require IE, and won't work by telling it your running IE. (damn extensions)
Please give me a list of all those unpatched web servers. I really need some more proxies.
Who do you work for?
He didn't say that his Apache/Tomcat/whatever-webserver was left unpatched, he only said it had triple digit uptime.
Well sure, if your music comes in the bargain bin of your local Wal-Mart, then yeah, it's cheaper.
But for the rest of the world...
Someones been playing Rainbow Six :P
To quote Patton:
;)
Your job as a soldier is not to die for your country... it is to make some poor son of a bitch die for HIS country.
Not an exact quote, but it always brings things into perpective
Funny thing is that in 1945 China was a democracy.
Stay with us here, guy...
They meant China in todays world, not China in 1945.
It was a comparison of two cultures in two different time periods.
It'd be easier to get the seperate pieces to do those tasks...
People buy LCDs because they are crisp, don't take up much space, and don't flicker.
Well, don't flicker unless you've got half a billion different colors changing on an image that is constantly moving on your screen with a heavy saturation.
But you're absolutely right... there's no coolness factor anymore with LCD. Basically if you buy CRT now, you either have a need for something specific in CRT, or you just don't know the advantages of LCD. Even at Fry's electronics, they have relinquished CRT to a single row, almost. LCD comprises approximately 1/4-1/3 of the computer section.
More seriously, is it possible to split up a single desktop onto multiple monitors?? I mean so you could have ridiculously high effective resolution, if not as extreme as that Texas-sized monitor :)
Yep, my manager does it with his laptop onto his 2nd LCD screen. It just extends the desktop to 2 monitors. I believe you can do it with X, but I've never done it because that's not something I've tried yet.
The amount of radiation from a CRT has been known for years. It's been dismissed under the guise that it's only emitted from the back (!).
Now, it might not be a significant amount of radiation (not sure how the "green" stuff effected that) but it can be enough radiation to effect people who are particularly sensitive. Mutliple monitors only raise that amount.
I can tell you this, after I got my 21 inch CRT out of my room, and replaced it with a 19 inch ViewSonic LCD (2 actually, one for my wife also to replace her 17 inch CRT), not only was the room cooler temperature wise, but a general lathargicness that we both had while in that room either reading or doing whatever was gone.