you only have a delay in load times as the network transaction occurs.
Ummmm... With optical media access time in the 10s of milliseconds combined with their relatively low throughput, wouldn't fastethernet and a hard drive have both a faster access time and a faster throughput?:P
Well usually you shut down the PS/2 ports to save the interrupts for something else.
After all, all USB devices on a hub share an interrupt. I put my keyboard, mouse and gamepads on the one hub because they don't need very much bandwidth or power. I use a cheap $10 passive hub and run them off the same USB port.
That leaves bandwidth and power to spare on the other port for things that need it like portable hard drives or scanners.
But you can't simply stick and expansion card in a Wintel box and it just work either. You have to do the drivers install dance. What amazing expectations you have for Linux that nobody else supports either.
Thats only if you have a piece of hardware that isn't one of the billion or so things they include drivers for on the Windows XP CD.
Hell, my digicam (which was only bought in June) showed up in Windows XP as soon as I plugged it into the USB port. No drivers. Came up as "Caplio G3". Probably was using a generic USB mass storage driver with a custom device string but the point is that it worked the first time without any fuss.
Ditto for my USB mouse, my USB keyboard, my sound card and my network card. The only things I've ever needed drivers for were the video card and the chipset and even then the chipset drivers weren't that vital.
However, this isn't just limited to Windows XP. You used Knoppix recently? ACPI enabled kernel which automatically detects and installs drivers. Utterly brilliant piece of work and I commend them greatly.
Yes, the driver dance is still around but its getting less important and less frustrating by the day. Most instructions for installing a new device come with a sheet that says "don't plug the thing in, install the software that comes with it, plug the thing in and Windows does the rest" and IMHO, the only way you could make the process any better would be to download the drivers off the net automatically the first time the device is plugged in.
Dundee: Eh? You call that unix sources? I will show you unix sources. Bart Simpson: Thats not unix source... thats greek! Dundee: ahhh! I see you played greeky-sourcey before!
OTOH, what frickin' business is it of theirs to know where I've been? It's only someone else's business if I endanger someone else, dangit!
Well if you've been in brawls or done damage to other bars then I for one really wouldn't want you at my bar. I tend to think of it as one bar tender calling me and telling me "Watch out for this punk. He was in here the other day causing a ruckus and isn't worth the trouble." except that its done easily and automatically.
After all, its a private establishment in a capitalist society. If you don't like it, start your own damn bar. Its not like theres a shortage of customers or a huge barrier to entry like operating systems.
I know of a current exploit in explorer (mshta) that can be used to download and execute any application on your computer simply by loading a website. I know it works because a friend of mine used it on me to show off (and I'm up to date with current patches for winxp).
Link please. Lets leave the anecdotal evidence arguments back in the 20th century where they belong.
I am sure they will release the patch to all users however paying customers get first dibs on their download servers.
But they haven't wherein lies the problem. Trillian are only giving out the Yahoo connection code to paying customers. Therefore, for the moment at least, if you want to access Yahoo with Trillian you have to give Cerulean Studios money.
They didn't do anything to the Yahoo network besides consume resources and they're making hard currency off it. I do hope Yahoo clobber them around the head with the DMCA.
Right Click on "My Computer" Click "Properties" Go the the "Advanced" tab Click "Settings" under "Startup and Recovery" Uncheck "Automatically restart" under "System failure"
Now when you get your next BSOD do the following:
* Note down the error including any parameters * Run the error through Microsoft's Knowledge Base * Run through the articles to see if its a known condition
BSODs are normally reserved for catastrophic failures (like the boot partition being damaged or broken RAM returning random information) and usually occur for good reason.
Ever so often someone bring up the Linux as a game platform argument.
Yes its technically capable. Especially with modern nVidia drivers the way they are. But that's not the point.
The point is that you have to expend money, resources and time to make a Linux client. Why are you going to do that when 95% of your user base can/will use the Windows version anyway?
Besides community goodwill, there is no good reason for a developer to port a game to Linux and until there is a damn good reason for developers to port games to Linux, UT2K3 will remain the exception rather than the rule.
Google Watch always verged on the "tin foil" brigade to me.
They still trumpet on about the Google Toolbar being spyware despite the fac that when you install the toolbar it spells everything out in plain english under a big red heading labelled "READ THIS CAREFULLY! IT'S NOT THE USUAL YADA YADA YADA!".
They still trumpet on about Google's immortal cookie yet fail to realise *gasp* Google does have user preferences and uses the cookie to track those preferences. Some small part of me believes that the Google reps never responded because they died laughing about... THE COOKIE.
They trumpet on about geotargeting but in reality its almost required by governments with lax freedom of speech policies who try to prevent their citizens from accesssing certain material. You can always turn it off in the prefs by telling google to go back to google.com for searching but now the legal onus is on you.
While the site does have some valid points, most of them are either overexagerations or crying sour grapes. Personally, I think the only thing that really needs to be addressed is Google's transparency. Sure it's a fairly big concern to address but Google hasn't steppped far out of line yet. If they were to say, for example, sell every user's personal search data to the highest bidder I would be incredibly pissed and be calling for their blood.
But they haven't.
So I won't. And I'll continue to use Google while they remain like they are.
Come on. If google was the only search engine in town then I might agree with the idea but they aren't.
If Google started being assholes to their users most of them will simply go and use another search engine to find things. But they don't. So people keep using Google and the wonderful features it provides.
Well, IANAL but if I was in your shoes I'd take the following road:
1) Question the RIAA's copyright on the MP3 files. This can be fought using two arguments:
a) Did the RIAA make the MP3 file? No.
b) Should they inherit the copyright on the MP3 file? This should be a dispute between the person that originally encoded the file and the RIAA.
c) Can a judge decide who owns the copyright on the MP3 file? Not really. This is where argument 2 comes in.
2) MP3s are just random bitstreams.
a) Until they are put through a specific algorithm, MP3s remain random bitstreams that could really be anything from Madonna's latest single to a recording of modem line noise.
b) Whats to stop the RIAA from taking a sample from your hard drive, putting it through any algorithm it damn well feels like and then making it out to be copyright infringment?
c) The bitstream may be a derivative of the original song and it may not. Whether this is merely co-incidence is up to the person that created the MP3 file in the first place. This is where the argument from 1c comes into play. How can the judge declare that you're violating copyright when only the person who originally created the bitstream knows how it was created.
While none of those have been tested in court, I wonder if they would work.
Now to prevention. Use the overly broad DMCA against them. Before starting a transmission for a file include this message in clear ASCII:
"This file and any contents within have been encoded. This file is intended to be received and decoded by any member of the public wishing to use these files. However, these files may not be decoded if the person's intent is litigation. Any attempt to decode this file will be in violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act."
Sure its a long shot.
Any lawyers care to comment?
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It's not really 2.0GHz Athlon64 though. Sure the megahertz may look the same but I can tell you now that extra FSB speed will be giving the core a modest speed boost over a "proper" 10x200 A64.
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m68k and PPC are both big endian systems.
New genetically engineered Seamonkeys!
Imagine a storage tank of those!
you only have a delay in load times as the network transaction occurs.
:P
Ummmm... With optical media access time in the 10s of milliseconds combined with their relatively low throughput, wouldn't fastethernet and a hard drive have both a faster access time and a faster throughput?
Well usually you shut down the PS/2 ports to save the interrupts for something else.
After all, all USB devices on a hub share an interrupt. I put my keyboard, mouse and gamepads on the one hub because they don't need very much bandwidth or power. I use a cheap $10 passive hub and run them off the same USB port.
That leaves bandwidth and power to spare on the other port for things that need it like portable hard drives or scanners.
But you can't simply stick and expansion card in a Wintel box and it just work either. You have to do the drivers install dance. What amazing expectations you have for Linux that nobody else supports either.
Thats only if you have a piece of hardware that isn't one of the billion or so things they include drivers for on the Windows XP CD.
Hell, my digicam (which was only bought in June) showed up in Windows XP as soon as I plugged it into the USB port. No drivers. Came up as "Caplio G3". Probably was using a generic USB mass storage driver with a custom device string but the point is that it worked the first time without any fuss.
Ditto for my USB mouse, my USB keyboard, my sound card and my network card. The only things I've ever needed drivers for were the video card and the chipset and even then the chipset drivers weren't that vital.
However, this isn't just limited to Windows XP. You used Knoppix recently? ACPI enabled kernel which automatically detects and installs drivers. Utterly brilliant piece of work and I commend them greatly.
Yes, the driver dance is still around but its getting less important and less frustrating by the day. Most instructions for installing a new device come with a sheet that says "don't plug the thing in, install the software that comes with it, plug the thing in and Windows does the rest" and IMHO, the only way you could make the process any better would be to download the drivers off the net automatically the first time the device is plugged in.
It was featured a little while ago. It's a replacement for X, the window manager and the toolkit for today's lighter, more active PDA lifestyle.
See here but it's currently down. Head on over to #picogui on irc.slashnet.org for more info until the site comes back up.
Dundee: Eh? You call that unix sources? I will show you unix sources.
Bart Simpson: Thats not unix source... thats greek!
Dundee: ahhh! I see you played greeky-sourcey before!
Seriously... Take a look!
The rendezvous enabled distributed building and predictive compiling look to be winners.
What kind of geek are you?? You're supposed to be spilling beer...
I don't drink. I come from a family of alcaholics and I don't like the idea of becoming one.
Damn straight. Once I spilt Pepsi on my keyboard and I lost access to the left control key, left start key and my tilde key.
Let's just say it was an amusing week and a half till I got my new Logitech Elite Keyboard.
Agreed. It's one thing for a private establishment to establish huge data mines on its customers.
It's another thing altogether for the government to get their hands on it and try and use it to incriminate you for something.
OTOH, what frickin' business is it of theirs to know where I've been? It's only someone else's business if I endanger someone else, dangit!
Well if you've been in brawls or done damage to other bars then I for one really wouldn't want you at my bar. I tend to think of it as one bar tender calling me and telling me "Watch out for this punk. He was in here the other day causing a ruckus and isn't worth the trouble." except that its done easily and automatically.
After all, its a private establishment in a capitalist society. If you don't like it, start your own damn bar. Its not like theres a shortage of customers or a huge barrier to entry like operating systems.
I know of a current exploit in explorer (mshta) that can be used to download and execute any application on your computer simply by loading a website. I know it works because a friend of mine used it on me to show off (and I'm up to date with current patches for winxp).
Link please. Lets leave the anecdotal evidence arguments back in the 20th century where they belong.
I am sure they will release the patch to all users however paying customers get first dibs on their download servers.
But they haven't wherein lies the problem. Trillian are only giving out the Yahoo connection code to paying customers. Therefore, for the moment at least, if you want to access Yahoo with Trillian you have to give Cerulean Studios money.
They didn't do anything to the Yahoo network besides consume resources and they're making hard currency off it. I do hope Yahoo clobber them around the head with the DMCA.
Right Click on "My Computer"
Click "Properties"
Go the the "Advanced" tab
Click "Settings" under "Startup and Recovery"
Uncheck "Automatically restart" under "System failure"
Now when you get your next BSOD do the following:
* Note down the error including any parameters
* Run the error through Microsoft's Knowledge Base
* Run through the articles to see if its a known condition
BSODs are normally reserved for catastrophic failures (like the boot partition being damaged or broken RAM returning random information) and usually occur for good reason.
That's great. It has pretty icons and widgets.
Now could I please have a rundown on all the backend stuff?
This includes but is not limited to:
What tools do Sun intend to provide me with so that I can create a Standard Operating Environment.
How effective are these tools in large scale configurations?
How well can application rollouts be managed on >100 machines?
"SUN HAS PRETTY WIDGETS!" doesn't give me any useful information whatsoever.
You wouldn't be too far wrong either. While I don't have the specific numbers, Microsoft have been using these sorts of fast booting techniques for Windows XP.
What was your dog doing in the pound?
Ranger Sierra locked him up because he kept pissing on everyone's front lawn.
Ever so often someone bring up the Linux as a game platform argument.
Yes its technically capable. Especially with modern nVidia drivers the way they are. But that's not the point.
The point is that you have to expend money, resources and time to make a Linux client. Why are you going to do that when 95% of your user base can/will use the Windows version anyway?
Besides community goodwill, there is no good reason for a developer to port a game to Linux and until there is a damn good reason for developers to port games to Linux, UT2K3 will remain the exception rather than the rule.
Google Watch always verged on the "tin foil" brigade to me.
They still trumpet on about the Google Toolbar being spyware despite the fac that when you install the toolbar it spells everything out in plain english under a big red heading labelled "READ THIS CAREFULLY! IT'S NOT THE USUAL YADA YADA YADA!".
They still trumpet on about Google's immortal cookie yet fail to realise *gasp* Google does have user preferences and uses the cookie to track those preferences. Some small part of me believes that the Google reps never responded because they died laughing about... THE COOKIE.
They trumpet on about geotargeting but in reality its almost required by governments with lax freedom of speech policies who try to prevent their citizens from accesssing certain material. You can always turn it off in the prefs by telling google to go back to google.com for searching but now the legal onus is on you.
While the site does have some valid points, most of them are either overexagerations or crying sour grapes. Personally, I think the only thing that really needs to be addressed is Google's transparency. Sure it's a fairly big concern to address but Google hasn't steppped far out of line yet. If they were to say, for example, sell every user's personal search data to the highest bidder I would be incredibly pissed and be calling for their blood.
But they haven't.
So I won't. And I'll continue to use Google while they remain like they are.
Come on. If google was the only search engine in town then I might agree with the idea but they aren't.
If Google started being assholes to their users most of them will simply go and use another search engine to find things. But they don't. So people keep using Google and the wonderful features it provides.
Well, IANAL but if I was in your shoes I'd take the following road:
1) Question the RIAA's copyright on the MP3 files. This can be fought using two arguments:
a) Did the RIAA make the MP3 file? No.
b) Should they inherit the copyright on the MP3 file? This should be a dispute between the person that originally encoded the file and the RIAA.
c) Can a judge decide who owns the copyright on the MP3 file? Not really. This is where argument 2 comes in.
2) MP3s are just random bitstreams.
a) Until they are put through a specific algorithm, MP3s remain random bitstreams that could really be anything from Madonna's latest single to a recording of modem line noise.
b) Whats to stop the RIAA from taking a sample from your hard drive, putting it through any algorithm it damn well feels like and then making it out to be copyright infringment?
c) The bitstream may be a derivative of the original song and it may not. Whether this is merely co-incidence is up to the person that created the MP3 file in the first place. This is where the argument from 1c comes into play. How can the judge declare that you're violating copyright when only the person who originally created the bitstream knows how it was created.
While none of those have been tested in court, I wonder if they would work.
Now to prevention. Use the overly broad DMCA against them. Before starting a transmission for a file include this message in clear ASCII:
"This file and any contents within have been encoded. This file is intended to be received and decoded by any member of the public wishing to use these files. However, these files may not be decoded if the person's intent is litigation. Any attempt to decode this file will be in violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act."
Sure its a long shot.
Any lawyers care to comment?
It's not really 2.0GHz Athlon64 though. Sure the megahertz may look the same but I can tell you now that extra FSB speed will be giving the core a modest speed boost over a "proper" 10x200 A64.
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Please get your filthly fucking paws off XFS before I cut them off with my machete.
Yours Sincerely
Talez
I got bad news for you.
They already know. Qantas sells adapters for their funny DC power sockets on international flights so that you can plug your laptop in.
Selling fuel cells would be a natural evolution and a money makers for domestic flights..