I am in the middle of building a X86 server that I intend to run OpenSolaris on. Trying to find a board that I know in advance is supported has been frustrating. However, I *think* the major problem is the lack of updates for documentation and not that new devices are not supported.
You'll know how it went if you see me trying to sell a server, cpu, RAM combo.
Having to use my email on a different machine doesn't really bother me, though I do think the current version of Outlook needs a lot of improvements (and this sort of gives me a blunt weapon to protest the policy with). In any event your suggestions would likely result in the storm troopers coming to my office and marching me out the door.
So It's far better to ignore the email situation until the policy changes. I've been at this job for decades, no policy (or technology) lasts forever.
This is more or less in line with my experience in research as well. Where I work many of the researchers have Macs, the heavy lifting is done on UNIX boxes in dark corners of the campus where no one goes, there are a fleet of old laptops running around with Windows & Labview, the developers all run some flavor of Linux and I'm pretty sure all of the outward facing servers run Solaris 8 (at least all that I've ever been forced to poke at do).
My only real complaint is that email is Microsoft Only (by decree), honestly I don't see that lasting more than a couple of years as I think of it as a throw back from we were a 'Microsoft only' company (which was doomed for failure to begin with). Honestly I can't imagine that MS homogeny truly works for most companies above a certain size.
Unless all of the websites you visit are within your local calling area your comparison is invalid... or you use your cell only on weekend nights...
I don't need equal up and down transfer speeds, nor do most people. I want a low latency / high speed connection and I'm willing to schedule my large downloads to off peak hours.
Over selling is not cool, in fact it's annoying as hell. I think the very existence of unlimited contracts demonstrates the vast majority of ISP are not to be trusted to sell or manage bandwidth honestly.
You are exactly the whiny fool I was referring to.
You're promoting (and probably signed up for) a falsely unlimited contract. Promoting such a mutually dishonest contract encourages the ISP to do traffic shaping. I do not want my ISP to care enough about my data to know enough to shape it. I don't want them to short my VOIP data because they've got their own VOIP service. I don't want them short my Video traffic because they have their own Video on Demand. And I don't want them to block data that is not to their liking... I want to decide what what bandwidth I want and when I want it... and entering into a *mutually honest* contract with an ISP is the way to do this.
This is the problem with these 'unlimited' plans, there no way all users can consume the peak bandwidth advertised and we all know it. Many 'enthusiast' users signed up for such plans thinking their providers were fools for offering such plans. Well who's the fool? The guy that oversells a product by an order of magnitude or the guy that bought into it knowing that it was?
In my opinion un-metered plans should not be offered at all, there is no such thing as a free lunch. You pay for an upload/download capability, then pay for brackets of monthly bandwidth, and you should get a break on packets transfered during off-peak hours.
Do we really want or need government regulation of ISP capacity marketing? If that's the case I guess the free market economy doesn't work as well a some folks think.
It was their "don't whine at us if you have a problem, we are only developers" disclaimer.
I don't remember it exactly but it was blunt, over the top, and probably unnecessary.
Emacs!? When I comment that OOO.org, MS Office, and NeoOffice are so feature rich that they are too complicated for kids to bother with, you come up with Emacs? Let me tell you no child of mine is using Emacs! They'll being using VI!
Wow... I wonder when the last time there has been an Emacs VI flame around here...
Seriously though my daughter puts all kinds of graphics and fonts in her schoolwork. She'd mutiny at the suggestion of Emacs, VI, or any of the other old text editors.
You say that like Microsoft Office seamlessly handles a giant shared/published spreadsheet with lots of custom macros for dozens of users across a multi-office corporate WAN.
It doesn't.
Oh... and god help you if there is a language that is not English on any computer that opens this spreadsheet of yours.
I haven't been to the NeoOffice website in a very long time, since I started to use just plain Open Office. But... the last time I was there the website had the least friendly, over the top disclaimers found any on the web, save Microsoft's "Get the Facts" FUD page.
OK so the NeoOffice developers have issues with their social skills, does this have much to do with the feature set and bugs of NeoOffice as compared with Open Office, Microsoft Office, or iWork?
Personally I think all three are way overkill for students writing papers. Hell, I don't think I've ever used more than 10 or 20% of MS Office's features and I use it work nearly every day and have for over 10 years. Is there an Open Source project like Apple's 'Pages'? This, I think, would be closer to useful and a lot more fun.
While enjoyed the Firefly series and the Serenity movie I wouldn't really call this 'New SciFi'. That was a space western (complete with horses and cows).
A ring 93 million miles in radius (on earth obit) 600 million miles long One million miles wide thickness of of about 1000 meters walls on the edge 1000 miles high
I didn't get mod points for at least three years after the Gore / Bush election. Anyway on the forth year I sent a single email and I started getting them again. I have no idea what sort of algorithm is used to decide who gets mod points and how often (and I've never looked at the code) but I think there's something hinky with it.
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I would be gratified if you could direct me to evidence that a vendor has successfully certified their hardware.
Recently!!
I am in the middle of building a X86 server that I intend to run OpenSolaris on. Trying to find a board that I know in advance is supported has been frustrating. However, I *think* the major problem is the lack of updates for documentation and not that new devices are not supported.
You'll know how it went if you see me trying to sell a server, cpu, RAM combo.
OK I don't watch US telly but if "To Entrap A Predator" is legal why isn't "To Entrap a black hat hacker"?
I understand that they violated some sort of agreement when they signed in as a normal attendee but how is this criminal and the other not?
Yep, it sucks alright.. as in being a Slashdot 'editor' sucks...
I have no idea if it works or not, I didn't use enough to find out
Having to use my email on a different machine doesn't really bother me, though I do think the current version of Outlook needs a lot of improvements (and this sort of gives me a blunt weapon to protest the policy with). In any event your suggestions would likely result in the storm troopers coming to my office and marching me out the door.
So It's far better to ignore the email situation until the policy changes. I've been at this job for decades, no policy (or technology) lasts forever.
This is more or less in line with my experience in research as well. Where I work many of the researchers have Macs, the heavy lifting is done on UNIX boxes in dark corners of the campus where no one goes, there are a fleet of old laptops running around with Windows & Labview, the developers all run some flavor of Linux and I'm pretty sure all of the outward facing servers run Solaris 8 (at least all that I've ever been forced to poke at do).
My only real complaint is that email is Microsoft Only (by decree), honestly I don't see that lasting more than a couple of years as I think of it as a throw back from we were a 'Microsoft only' company (which was doomed for failure to begin with). Honestly I can't imagine that MS homogeny truly works for most companies above a certain size.
It's traditional
Unless all of the websites you visit are within your local calling area your comparison is invalid... or you use your cell only on weekend nights...
I don't need equal up and down transfer speeds, nor do most people. I want a low latency / high speed connection and I'm willing to schedule my large downloads to off peak hours.
Over selling is not cool, in fact it's annoying as hell. I think the very existence of unlimited contracts demonstrates the vast majority of ISP are not to be trusted to sell or manage bandwidth honestly.
You are exactly the whiny fool I was referring to.
You're promoting (and probably signed up for) a falsely unlimited contract. Promoting such a mutually dishonest contract encourages the ISP to do traffic shaping. I do not want my ISP to care enough about my data to know enough to shape it. I don't want them to short my VOIP data because they've got their own VOIP service. I don't want them short my Video traffic because they have their own Video on Demand. And I don't want them to block data that is not to their liking... I want to decide what what bandwidth I want and when I want it... and entering into a *mutually honest* contract with an ISP is the way to do this.
This is the problem with these 'unlimited' plans, there no way all users can consume the peak bandwidth advertised and we all know it. Many 'enthusiast' users signed up for such plans thinking their providers were fools for offering such plans. Well who's the fool? The guy that oversells a product by an order of magnitude or the guy that bought into it knowing that it was?
In my opinion un-metered plans should not be offered at all, there is no such thing as a free lunch. You pay for an upload/download capability, then pay for brackets of monthly bandwidth, and you should get a break on packets transfered during off-peak hours.
Do we really want or need government regulation of ISP capacity marketing? If that's the case I guess the free market economy doesn't work as well a some folks think.
given the way the tests were setup that's more like saying you've got a 3 in 8 success rate with hookers.
Yes!
I thought time lords could only regenerate 12 times...
It was their "don't whine at us if you have a problem, we are only developers" disclaimer.
I don't remember it exactly but it was blunt, over the top, and probably unnecessary.
Emacs!? When I comment that OOO.org, MS Office, and NeoOffice are so feature rich that they are too complicated for kids to bother with, you come up with Emacs? Let me tell you no child of mine is using Emacs! They'll being using VI!
Wow... I wonder when the last time there has been an Emacs VI flame around here...
Seriously though my daughter puts all kinds of graphics and fonts in her schoolwork. She'd mutiny at the suggestion of Emacs, VI, or any of the other old text editors.
You say that like Microsoft Office seamlessly handles a giant shared/published spreadsheet with lots of custom macros for dozens of users across a multi-office corporate WAN.
It doesn't.
Oh... and god help you if there is a language that is not English on any computer that opens this spreadsheet of yours.
I haven't been to the NeoOffice website in a very long time, since I started to use just plain Open Office. But... the last time I was there the website had the least friendly, over the top disclaimers found any on the web, save Microsoft's "Get the Facts" FUD page.
OK so the NeoOffice developers have issues with their social skills, does this have much to do with the feature set and bugs of NeoOffice as compared with Open Office, Microsoft Office, or iWork?
Personally I think all three are way overkill for students writing papers. Hell, I don't think I've ever used more than 10 or 20% of MS Office's features and I use it work nearly every day and have for over 10 years. Is there an Open Source project like Apple's 'Pages'? This, I think, would be closer to useful and a lot more fun.
That should be in some sort of book like "Hatta's Famous Quotes"
While enjoyed the Firefly series and the Serenity movie I wouldn't really call this 'New SciFi'. That was a space western (complete with horses and cows).
Fuck, this is dreary. Even if it isn't that good can we have some new Sci-Fi?
Something that isn't a "franchise". Some that is not Star Wars? Or Star Trek
Or whatever it is Hollywood has already made dozens of movies of?
Fuck ANY thing without a number at the end!
I don't mind that it uses a stylus, I use one on my Waacom tablet.
But Jesus, why does it have to be this huge cancerous growth hanging off the side of the laptop?
There was a guy around here that successfully sued a junk fax marketer for a few K.
It was in his sig and journal for ages.
If I recall he bought a new top end PowerMac and Cinema Display with it.
From the back of Ringworld (1970 printing)
A ring 93 million miles in radius (on earth obit)
600 million miles long
One million miles wide
thickness of of about 1000 meters
walls on the edge 1000 miles high
Rotation on axis 770 miles per second
But I'm sure those or just generalities
"I think our time is better spent arguing whether Apple should buy out Nintendo. Or vice versa. Whichever one incites the more amusing flamewar."
I think what you are looking for would be "Sun".
I didn't get mod points for at least three years after the Gore / Bush election. Anyway on the forth year I sent a single email and I started getting them again. I have no idea what sort of algorithm is used to decide who gets mod points and how often (and I've never looked at the code) but I think there's something hinky with it.
I'm leaning towards "Corporatist", it doesn't have the historical baggage.