If it doesn't play on my iPhone I will just DVR it, use TiVoToGo transfer and reencode. I would rather pay the $1.99 at iTunes for episodes than go through all of this trouble. I don't want another online account. I don't want yet another line on my checking account statement to keep track of. I don't want to hassle with another piece of (shit) software or whatnot. Screw this. I'll use my DVR. Other people will just get from IRC or Torrents. Good Goin'. You suck once again at television.
I recently downloaded a 80GB laptop backup image from a server at work (who has massive amounts of bandwidth) to my home Comcast... I downloaded via sftp2 and the final speed was 2.0MB/sec. Yes, two megabytes per second. This mostly copied overnight. I -do- pay for the "8mbit upgrade" and this was a continuous file (single connection to port 22 of host machine) transfer. The bandwidth limitations seem to be 'soft' whereas if the network is not busy it gives you more. I have a 10ms ping to said machine at work and have had other files (on different days) download only at 1.2MB/sec. So, my experience is somewhere between 12-20 megabit per second on my Comcast. I'm in Lynnwood, WA (just north of Seattle).
I love spotlight. It works great so far.. But why doesn't it work in OPEN dialog boxes? When I save a file, the window needs to have a Standard/Advanced option to make it oldstyle and Spotlight friendly. Biggest thing, I can't choose File:Open and use a Spotlight search to find the file. I have to use the top-right icon, which isn't really a habit and I'm not sure will ever be a total habit. Needs File:Open:Spotlight bigtime. How about having available Volumes in a Sidebar so I can copy files from Spotlight searches onto my USB Flash Device or my iPod. Can't do that unless I use the Finder. Seems it's only partially implemented.. Why bother? Getting us used to using it before fully implementing it? Why not just implement it now. I'd use it solely if I could copy files between volumes, setup 'where' files copy TO on each volume, etc.
What about when you're at work, and you all the sudden need an 'ethernet' connection in a room that doesn't have any connections? (like for the copier, which can scan/print/fax). Do you pay over $1k to get a new jack installed, run through the wall and 1-2 hundred feet to the wire room? No, you get a wireless-to-ethernet bridge and a wifi base for $300. What about when you have three people who come into a meeting and usually take notes on their laptops? Give 'em 3 ethernet cables? Of course not! What about classrooms? I use 802.11g for Database access, File server access, Web access, Email, ssh...everything. The difference between 3.2MB/sec and 10MB/sec really isn't important MOST of the time. I can plug in, if I have to copy a file thats over a gig or something. But why? Why plug in if you don't have to? Do you seriously think wireless access is a sales pitch? I'm guessing you don't have a laptop? Do you string an ethernet cable over 50 feet to your couch? Or just open your laptop and BAM, you're on the network. People don't or can't run ethernet in most homes. Most of the time if ethernet IS run in a home it's strung across a ceiling and looks like crap. Wireless gets rid of all that. Many office buildings don't have ethernet either. We just moved one of our satellites into a brand-new office building (its actually nice too, not a low-end piece-of-crap) that didn't have ethernet anywhere, just telephone jacks. Why? Probably because it woulda cost extra $$$ to install ethernet, I don't really know. But wireless FIXED this problem for very little cost. OK, that's enough for now.
Using MacOS X on a laptop works just as well as on a desktop. Perfect, beautiful user interface. It's really great. Pull up "Terminal" and you're on a semi-BSD command-line. Try it sometime. You may like it. Problems with Linux on x86 laptops. That's not surprising. How about someone makes a Dell 2004+ distribution? Support the few devices Dell has released since Jan 01, 2004. I'm sure that would be a do-able task. The problem is that there is just too much hardware to support. Too many Mainboard, NIC's, Firewire cards, USB cards, etc. Create a distro that works great on a few specific vendors and the tasks become easier. Those who don't have the supported hardware? Build your own I guess. Next time buy something that has a real name on it. The reason MacOS X works great on laptops is because Apple writes the OS and creates the hardware. How many pieces of hardware does it have to support? Not all that many. Anyhow, start making distro's that use specific vendors hardware, within the past few years. Forget all the old stuff. If someone wants to use it they'll have to buy into the correct product lines.
Sun should adopt a new OS. Adopt something like MacOS X, a proven, easy to use, powerful operating system that you don't have to be an IT geek to use. Apps could easily be ported to work with it, M$ could (would, maybe?) even port Office to it easily enough. Or, find something else. Make your SUN machines easy to use. Sell them at a store. Get CompUSA on board or something. FIGURE SOMETHING OUT OR DIE. Make your computers easily network-able. If your computers play with other computers nicely, you might be able to sell something to more than special companies that need special hardware.
BLah blah blah - its for harddrives and such.
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WirelessUSB isn't meant for keyboards and mice really. It's built around attaching storage and other high-speed current-USB devices without all the damned wires. Just think, that FireWire or USB2.0 harddrive you have won't need the wire anymore. You won't have to find plugs in certain areas or string wires through hoops anymore. As more wireless adds on, the mess under my computer (and some others in the office) gets smaller. Things are getting better. I just wish they'd stick with one F'in standard. Why can't this be Bluetooth 2.0 so that all my current bluetooth stuff still works? It sure would be nice. But no, I'll have bluetooth plus WUSB at some point. Oh great, another piece of hardware to buy!
Is anyone keeping track of exactly how many "critical" (and other categories?) bugs microsoft announces? If I could find a good source, I'd love to point it out in a meeting at work. We are mostly Mac but have been FORCED to buy some Windoze machines lately to access some Win2k+ and IE 5+ web tools (departmental timekeeping, purchasing, inventory, insurance, etc). Why people can't write simple web tools so they work on a "standard" web browser is beyond me, but anyways back to my question. If I had a good source maybe I could try and get my work to -not- buy a PC when someone asks for it, without a very good reason. Sure would save me a lot of time.. especially when people call for phone help. Speaking of phone help... Can anyone tell me why Windows has you click through so many options when connecting to a wireless access point? There is no reason for all those options to be there. Almost everything can be totally automatic, except for choosing -which- access point and entering the -password-. Ding ding, that's -TWO- options. Why are there like, 10+? WHY? Why are there so damn many settings? I know what they all mean, and they don't all need to be there. On my Powerbook, I just choose the AP's name from a menu and type the password. Easy as that.
Yes, that is true. BUT, it would be quite easy to write a script that sent itself messages through a relay, then when/if the message is recieved it would start spamming and sending itself a message every 10 or 50 times or so. If messages start getting lost it would mark that relay as dead and move to the next one. After a few people write this script (there are always many) it would work like clockwork and nobody would really even notice it happening. Remember, there is always a work-around.
This sounds like a pretty interesting project. One question though, what happens when the spammers themselves get word of this? They will just relay a message through each open relay they find to an account they can check, to see if the message went through. If the message doesn't go through then its a 'blackhole' relay and they will find another one. I just don't see something like this working. Maybe it should save all of the spam and use the messages to update spamassassin filters or something like that. Otherwise it'll be useless. Just my thoughts.
It's too late for ATI to win me back. I've had so many problems with their products and/or the companys tech/customer support that I'll never switch back. NVidia ALL THE WAY!! The only way I'd use ANYTHING from ATI is because as far as I can tell, they have the best setup for the CableTV input card. I have one of those, but I'm using it with a Dell GeForce2 GTS card. Digital-VCR is pretty cool on the computer. I only wish I had a TiVo or at least a TV-out to use with it. Oh well:) Oh, anyways. As I was saying... I'll never use a ATI GPU ever again.
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I looked into a TiVo once. I have the money. I like what it can do. But.. Why the hell doesn't it have Ethernet w/ IP functionality? I want to be able to plug the thing into my broadband connection and have it update..Very frequently. I also want to be able to MOUNT the harddrive thats in the TiVo. You could install the software for 'sharing' the harddrive on the network on the harddrive, over the ethernet connection. Default IP=10.0.0.5 or something, change your machine to a like address, mount the drive via SMB/NFS/AFP/FTP/SFTP or some other 'normal' protocol, install software, firewall list, etc etc. The software in some certain folder could be loaded when the TiVo is turned on (like a computer boots) and it could have a large variety of options and controls. Expert or LUser modes.. Lets say I'm on vacation and I record a bunch of TV shows.. I don't want those shows to sit on the machine for too long before I get a chance to watch them.. (Oh, Wait. TiVo wants you to buy the larger harddrive, I forgot.) Newer shows will be taping and adding to the list. Maybe I want to keep a favorite episode or something too.. Maybe make a 10/100 NIC upgrade card, that you can install to any TiVo model? I mean, they don't all have to have this piece of hardware, but it definitely should be a option. Otherwise I'm just plain not interested in the thing. I'll keep using my VCR until it has a 'functional' ethernet connection. I mean, how many VCR's can I buy for the price of one TiVo? I can record plenty of TV shows if I want. I'm one of those people that records 2-3 hours of shows per day and watches them when I get home from work. I also record a extra 3-5 hours of shows that I like, just in case I have a migraine, am very bored or something else happens and I'm sick and all I want to do is lay around and watch TV. TiVo would be GREAT for this, but I want to be able to copy recordings off of the unit. I could have full seasons of shows on my computer even. Could edit out the commercials. It'd rule. Oh, guess what else? Network attached storage is another 'feature' that would come from this. I'm sure this wouldn't be -server- quality of a machine, but it'd be network attached storage for home users. 1-3MB/sec is fast enough for anybody at home, for the most part. Especially from a device like this, where the main functionality isn't the device being a Network Attached Storage device.
Go back and read the comment again. It says that it maxes out the fibre channel connectivity. What more do you want? If it was ultra160 SCSI, it wouldn't matter, it would be limited by the speed of the fibre channel connection. -- Nate n h a r t @ n e t . b o n e z (reverse net & bonez) http://bonez.net/
Gee, lets see. Yes they do. I would. Apple 2.5TB RAID or no-name (or even name-brand) 2.5TB RAID. I'd go with the Apple simply because it matches my computer brand, and I know it'll work. This is all in the "brand name alone".
You really think people won't just buy a name-brand when shopping for such a product? Well, I have to say I do. I don't piece together PC's. I will never piece together a RAID array ever again. If Apple sells it, then it must work with my Apple servers. Why would someone piece together a RAID array to save $500? Or even $1000? Maybe if your not afraid of your machine not working how you would like. But I want my computers to work. I don't want to have to tear my RAID array apart and fix wiring. You see, Apple makes quality products. They don't sell you a Macintosh with 5 different kinds of networking solutions. They give you a ethernet port that works on 3 speeds. They put copper gigabit in my G4 at work. I don't use gigabit. If I was buying a Dell, or another PC I'd have the option of getting gigabit, in _a seperate card_ which I sure as heck don't wish to do. One more thing to support. One more foreign object in the system. With this RAID array, you just plug it in and go. They even sell a _service package_ (extra HD and such) with the unit if you want. You don't have to buy seperate harddrives. You can go to a Apple certified service department and have them fix this for you. Probably for many years to come. _With the same hardware it came with._ Apple is good with this. I remember a RAID array I had on a WinNT server a few years back. One of the harddrives failed. The person who bought the thing (my old boss) bought a extra drive when we bought the beast, so I put it in there. Worked alright. Then a second drive went out. What was I to do? I bought a ultra160 drive and stuck it in there, some oddball drive because they didn't build the drives that we had bought with the thing anymore. So I had 7 drives all the same and one oddball. The system never was as stable after that. I ended up just ditching the whole thing and storing data on their own seperate harddrives within the unit, and using a well built backup system. I guess I don't have all the experience in the world with RAID, but if I had to choose a RAID array for my current 2 MacOS X 10.1.x servers, I would choose the Apple one.
Think about this, Xserve's are built to be in a rack. The Apple RAID arrays are built to be in a rack (although they don't have to be). Lots of people have their server racks very far away from their offices. Like if you had your server housed at semaphore? (semaphore.net) Or Exodus, or whereever, it doesn't matter. Some businesses keep their servers maybe a floor below the computer people, this means if something breaks, you are right there to fix it. How much time does it take for you to fix it? Does it take $500 worth of your time in the life of the product? Will your savings in brand and/or quality make up for your time? Will the Apple RAID arrays work better since they are all pieced together the same? These things are made to _work_. They are not a empty box, with connectors on it, waiting for some noname, or bandname harddrives to be installed. They all have the same thing. Why? Apple tests to see if the drives they put in their/your equipment work, if the drive works well enough, Apple mass produces it.
To make sure people don't think I'm on the wrong side here, I have to say this too. Apple's bean counters (yeah, the people who think about MONEY) have created some problems with Apple hardware. I had quite a problem hooking some iMac's and G4's to a managed hub some time back. Why was this? This is because Apple had switched some Ethernet controller switch and it happened to not be compatible with the 10megabit hub we were using. How did I fix this, before the software update was available? I had gone out and bought like 20 or 30 Netgear 5-port 10/100 switches to install in between the machines and the old "POS" hub. I would have replaced the hub with a HP 10/100 switch, but the wiring in the building was not good enough for this, and the hub wasn't my responsibility, it belonged to another department (Computing and Communications). (Yes, I work for a University.)
Bottom line; No Hassle. Saves time. Maybe even saves money. You choose. Something you know works? Or something that _may_ work. I will always choose something that just plain works.
Think I'm lazy? I'm not really. Well, sometimes. But, my servers run. My servers KEEP running. I have far better uptimes than anyone else that I personally know at the University I work at. Some of the big mainframes have been up quite a bit longer, but I don't have the kind of money they spend on the UPSes. I also keep the upgrades rolling in. Some think that uptime matters more, more than updates even. I don't run updates during working hours, I stay late, I do them after hours. Does this cause short outages for a person or two every year? Sure. I do believe that out of the (hang on, checking logs......) 18 minutes my FileMaker Pro server was down last year, that nobody even tried to use it.
I bought a keychain mass storage memory thingy the other month. I chose a "256MB Lexar Media Jump Drive 2.0" for the brand and model. Why? Because I _know_ it will work. I plugged this thing into my USB 1.1 port (G4, mirrored drive doors running MacOS X 10.2.x). Guess what happened? A drive icon popped up on the desktop called "LEXAR MEDIA" or some such. I didn't have to do _anything_ except plug the thing in. So that night I came home, plugged it into my Dell Dimension XPSB866, running Windoze 2000, had to click "OK" a few times and it did the same thing, just popped up on my screen. Now this is quality. ((On another note, MacOS X didn't ask _anything_ when seeing this device, windows did. Makes me think.)) It's USB 2.0 (good for my PC anyways, the Mac doesn't seem to understand what USB 2.0 is, at least not a NEC USB 2.0 card on MacOS X 10.2.3ish.) Lexar Media is a good brand. (Lexar Media is the _only_ company that Sony has allowed to make Memory Sticks.) Of course other brands were cheaper, but I don't know for sure if they will work. I also don't know for sure that they will be supported in future versions of MacOS or Windows. I am pretty damned sure Lexar Media will be around for some time to come. I don't know this about some other companies, and I sure as hell don't have time to check every company I see a matching product for. I know this wasn't a huge purchase, but I think it's a good example.
Before I go. I wish to say something. I believe MacOS X is the best OS I have used. I have used many many OSes. Windoze 95-XP, MacOS 6-9, all sorts of *NIX command lines (which I do love still, nothing like a 80 column 25 line black terminal) and of course X11. MacOS X 10.2.x (not so much the earlier versions) is a whole lot more advanced than all of these. Things just work. I don't want to mess around configuring stuff all over the place. I plug something in, it works.
OK, I'm done ranting. Send one back eh? I love arguing. (wow, I just previewed. Longest comment I've ever sent, but a LONGSHOT.:)
Blah blah blah. I'm _finally_ done now.
-- Nate Hart - nhart at NbOoSnPeAzM dot net (ditch the caps) http://bonez.net/
If you don't read macslash and you do read apple.slashdot, then this is news. I of course load www.apple.com and store.apple.com 2 or 3 times a week, so its not news to me. Don't assume everyone reads the same websites that you do, because they don't. I emailed the link to this/. article to someone at work yesterday, and it was news to them. Before you bash people, think about it. (Don't flag me as FLAMEBAIT please!:) -- Nate Hart - (you figure it out) http://bonez.net/
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<rant> I agree with _some_ of this message. There are too many domains, and the TLDs dont describe what kind of domain it is anymore. Once upon a time, there used to be.com used for commercial companies,.net used for networking companies and.org used for non-profits. Why did these open up? Why didn't _new_ TLDs open up for general public? I mean,.edu,.gov and others are _restricted_ to certain places and such..com should be for commercial companies _only_. So, I have a.net and thats good and all, but why not have general public TLDs and block off all the others? Sometimes its hard to tell which domains do what. verizonreallysucks.com is hardly something that should be under the.com TLD. I mean, come on. Finally, I suppose it's too late to do _any_ of these changes. I just wish things weren't opened up in the first place. I know I may be wrong and they may have never been restricted, but at one point if they weren't restricted then people actually registered domains that were in the correct TLDs, instead of companies registering ALL the TLDs with their company name. We all know Pepsi is going to be under pepsi.com. We all know they are not a networking company (.net) or a non-profit (.org). </rant>
Sims was the only game that crashed my machine.
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You see, I thought The Sims was a great game, but it was the _only_ program (out of a lot that I have used) on my Win2k machine that crashed it. I ended up quitting the game all together because of this. I played a lot of other games on that machine, and still do without any crashing. Pretty weird if you ask me. So, finally.. I would not buy the Sims online game because of this. -- Nathan Hart - nhart@SPAM.bonez.BE.net.GONE http://www.bonez.net /
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I believe the free dev kit doesn't enable installations. The paid version does. Which at this time would also get you the iPhone OS 4.
Apparently credit card processing is now offline. This means I can't watch last nights "House"? *cry*
If it doesn't play on my iPhone I will just DVR it, use TiVoToGo transfer and reencode. I would rather pay the $1.99 at iTunes for episodes than go through all of this trouble.
I don't want another online account.
I don't want yet another line on my checking account statement to keep track of.
I don't want to hassle with another piece of (shit) software or whatnot.
Screw this.
I'll use my DVR. Other people will just get from IRC or Torrents. Good Goin'. You suck once again at television.
Need more information. Maybe I just dont understand why you can't sell a "green" vehicle anywhere?
I recently downloaded a 80GB laptop backup image from a server at work (who has massive amounts of bandwidth) to my home Comcast... I downloaded via sftp2 and the final speed was 2.0MB/sec. Yes, two megabytes per second. This mostly copied overnight. I -do- pay for the "8mbit upgrade" and this was a continuous file (single connection to port 22 of host machine) transfer. The bandwidth limitations seem to be 'soft' whereas if the network is not busy it gives you more. I have a 10ms ping to said machine at work and have had other files (on different days) download only at 1.2MB/sec. So, my experience is somewhere between 12-20 megabit per second on my Comcast. I'm in Lynnwood, WA (just north of Seattle).
This seems like a HORRIBLE idea. I plan to follow the news on this :)
Hahahaha! This will teach some people to read the information about a piece of software instead of blindly *click* and *install*. Dumbasses :)
WTF?!?! Please go away.
I love spotlight. It works great so far.. But why doesn't it work in OPEN dialog boxes? When I save a file, the window needs to have a Standard/Advanced option to make it oldstyle and Spotlight friendly. Biggest thing, I can't choose File:Open and use a Spotlight search to find the file. I have to use the top-right icon, which isn't really a habit and I'm not sure will ever be a total habit. Needs File:Open:Spotlight bigtime. How about having available Volumes in a Sidebar so I can copy files from Spotlight searches onto my USB Flash Device or my iPod. Can't do that unless I use the Finder. Seems it's only partially implemented.. Why bother? Getting us used to using it before fully implementing it? Why not just implement it now. I'd use it solely if I could copy files between volumes, setup 'where' files copy TO on each volume, etc.
What about when you're at work, and you all the sudden need an 'ethernet' connection in a room that doesn't have any connections? (like for the copier, which can scan/print/fax). Do you pay over $1k to get a new jack installed, run through the wall and 1-2 hundred feet to the wire room? No, you get a wireless-to-ethernet bridge and a wifi base for $300. What about when you have three people who come into a meeting and usually take notes on their laptops? Give 'em 3 ethernet cables? Of course not! What about classrooms? I use 802.11g for Database access, File server access, Web access, Email, ssh...everything. The difference between 3.2MB/sec and 10MB/sec really isn't important MOST of the time. I can plug in, if I have to copy a file thats over a gig or something. But why? Why plug in if you don't have to? Do you seriously think wireless access is a sales pitch? I'm guessing you don't have a laptop? Do you string an ethernet cable over 50 feet to your couch? Or just open your laptop and BAM, you're on the network. People don't or can't run ethernet in most homes. Most of the time if ethernet IS run in a home it's strung across a ceiling and looks like crap. Wireless gets rid of all that. Many office buildings don't have ethernet either. We just moved one of our satellites into a brand-new office building (its actually nice too, not a low-end piece-of-crap) that didn't have ethernet anywhere, just telephone jacks. Why? Probably because it woulda cost extra $$$ to install ethernet, I don't really know. But wireless FIXED this problem for very little cost. OK, that's enough for now.
Using MacOS X on a laptop works just as well as on a desktop. Perfect, beautiful user interface. It's really great. Pull up "Terminal" and you're on a semi-BSD command-line. Try it sometime. You may like it.
Problems with Linux on x86 laptops. That's not surprising. How about someone makes a Dell 2004+ distribution? Support the few devices Dell has released since Jan 01, 2004. I'm sure that would be a do-able task. The problem is that there is just too much hardware to support. Too many Mainboard, NIC's, Firewire cards, USB cards, etc. Create a distro that works great on a few specific vendors and the tasks become easier. Those who don't have the supported hardware? Build your own I guess. Next time buy something that has a real name on it. The reason MacOS X works great on laptops is because Apple writes the OS and creates the hardware. How many pieces of hardware does it have to support? Not all that many. Anyhow, start making distro's that use specific vendors hardware, within the past few years. Forget all the old stuff. If someone wants to use it they'll have to buy into the correct product lines.
Sun should adopt a new OS. Adopt something like MacOS X, a proven, easy to use, powerful operating system that you don't have to be an IT geek to use. Apps could easily be ported to work with it, M$ could (would, maybe?) even port Office to it easily enough. Or, find something else. Make your SUN machines easy to use. Sell them at a store. Get CompUSA on board or something. FIGURE SOMETHING OUT OR DIE. Make your computers easily network-able. If your computers play with other computers nicely, you might be able to sell something to more than special companies that need special hardware.
WirelessUSB isn't meant for keyboards and mice really. It's built around attaching storage and other high-speed current-USB devices without all the damned wires. Just think, that FireWire or USB2.0 harddrive you have won't need the wire anymore. You won't have to find plugs in certain areas or string wires through hoops anymore. As more wireless adds on, the mess under my computer (and some others in the office) gets smaller. Things are getting better. I just wish they'd stick with one F'in standard. Why can't this be Bluetooth 2.0 so that all my current bluetooth stuff still works? It sure would be nice. But no, I'll have bluetooth plus WUSB at some point. Oh great, another piece of hardware to buy!
Is anyone keeping track of exactly how many "critical" (and other categories?) bugs microsoft announces? If I could find a good source, I'd love to point it out in a meeting at work. We are mostly Mac but have been FORCED to buy some Windoze machines lately to access some Win2k+ and IE 5+ web tools (departmental timekeeping, purchasing, inventory, insurance, etc). Why people can't write simple web tools so they work on a "standard" web browser is beyond me, but anyways back to my question. If I had a good source maybe I could try and get my work to -not- buy a PC when someone asks for it, without a very good reason. Sure would save me a lot of time.. especially when people call for phone help.
Speaking of phone help... Can anyone tell me why Windows has you click through so many options when connecting to a wireless access point? There is no reason for all those options to be there. Almost everything can be totally automatic, except for choosing -which- access point and entering the -password-. Ding ding, that's -TWO- options. Why are there like, 10+? WHY? Why are there so damn many settings? I know what they all mean, and they don't all need to be there. On my Powerbook, I just choose the AP's name from a menu and type the password. Easy as that.
Yes, that is true. BUT, it would be quite easy to write a script that sent itself messages through a relay, then when/if the message is recieved it would start spamming and sending itself a message every 10 or 50 times or so. If messages start getting lost it would mark that relay as dead and move to the next one. After a few people write this script (there are always many) it would work like clockwork and nobody would really even notice it happening. Remember, there is always a work-around.
This sounds like a pretty interesting project. One question though, what happens when the spammers themselves get word of this? They will just relay a message through each open relay they find to an account they can check, to see if the message went through. If the message doesn't go through then its a 'blackhole' relay and they will find another one. I just don't see something like this working. Maybe it should save all of the spam and use the messages to update spamassassin filters or something like that. Otherwise it'll be useless. Just my thoughts.
It's too late for ATI to win me back. I've had so many problems with their products and/or the companys tech/customer support that I'll never switch back. NVidia ALL THE WAY!! The only way I'd use ANYTHING from ATI is because as far as I can tell, they have the best setup for the CableTV input card. I have one of those, but I'm using it with a Dell GeForce2 GTS card. Digital-VCR is pretty cool on the computer. I only wish I had a TiVo or at least a TV-out to use with it. Oh well :) Oh, anyways. As I was saying... I'll never use a ATI GPU ever again.
I looked into a TiVo once. I have the money. I like what it can do. But.. Why the hell doesn't it have Ethernet w/ IP functionality? I want to be able to plug the thing into my broadband connection and have it update..Very frequently. I also want to be able to MOUNT the harddrive thats in the TiVo. You could install the software for 'sharing' the harddrive on the network on the harddrive, over the ethernet connection. Default IP=10.0.0.5 or something, change your machine to a like address, mount the drive via SMB/NFS/AFP/FTP/SFTP or some other 'normal' protocol, install software, firewall list, etc etc. The software in some certain folder could be loaded when the TiVo is turned on (like a computer boots) and it could have a large variety of options and controls. Expert or LUser modes..
Lets say I'm on vacation and I record a bunch of TV shows.. I don't want those shows to sit on the machine for too long before I get a chance to watch them.. (Oh, Wait. TiVo wants you to buy the larger harddrive, I forgot.) Newer shows will be taping and adding to the list. Maybe I want to keep a favorite episode or something too.. Maybe make a 10/100 NIC upgrade card, that you can install to any TiVo model? I mean, they don't all have to have this piece of hardware, but it definitely should be a option. Otherwise I'm just plain not interested in the thing. I'll keep using my VCR until it has a 'functional' ethernet connection. I mean, how many VCR's can I buy for the price of one TiVo? I can record plenty of TV shows if I want.
I'm one of those people that records 2-3 hours of shows per day and watches them when I get home from work. I also record a extra 3-5 hours of shows that I like, just in case I have a migraine, am very bored or something else happens and I'm sick and all I want to do is lay around and watch TV. TiVo would be GREAT for this, but I want to be able to copy recordings off of the unit. I could have full seasons of shows on my computer even. Could edit out the commercials. It'd rule.
Oh, guess what else? Network attached storage is another 'feature' that would come from this. I'm sure this wouldn't be -server- quality of a machine, but it'd be network attached storage for home users. 1-3MB/sec is fast enough for anybody at home, for the most part. Especially from a device like this, where the main functionality isn't the device being a Network Attached Storage device.
Go back and read the comment again. It says that it maxes out the fibre channel connectivity. What more do you want? If it was ultra160 SCSI, it wouldn't matter, it would be limited by the speed of the fibre channel connection.
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Gee, lets see. Yes they do. I would. Apple 2.5TB RAID or no-name (or even name-brand) 2.5TB RAID. I'd go with the Apple simply because it matches my computer brand, and I know it'll work. This is all in the "brand name alone".
You really think people won't just buy a name-brand when shopping for such a product? Well, I have to say I do. I don't piece together PC's. I will never piece together a RAID array ever again. If Apple sells it, then it must work with my Apple servers. Why would someone piece together a RAID array to save $500? Or even $1000? Maybe if your not afraid of your machine not working how you would like. But I want my computers to work. I don't want to have to tear my RAID array apart and fix wiring. You see, Apple makes quality products. They don't sell you a Macintosh with 5 different kinds of networking solutions. They give you a ethernet port that works on 3 speeds. They put copper gigabit in my G4 at work. I don't use gigabit. If I was buying a Dell, or another PC I'd have the option of getting gigabit, in _a seperate card_ which I sure as heck don't wish to do. One more thing to support. One more foreign object in the system. With this RAID array, you just plug it in and go. They even sell a _service package_ (extra HD and such) with the unit if you want. You don't have to buy seperate harddrives. You can go to a Apple certified service department and have them fix this for you. Probably for many years to come. _With the same hardware it came with._ Apple is good with this. I remember a RAID array I had on a WinNT server a few years back. One of the harddrives failed. The person who bought the thing (my old boss) bought a extra drive when we bought the beast, so I put it in there. Worked alright. Then a second drive went out. What was I to do? I bought a ultra160 drive and stuck it in there, some oddball drive because they didn't build the drives that we had bought with the thing anymore. So I had 7 drives all the same and one oddball. The system never was as stable after that. I ended up just ditching the whole thing and storing data on their own seperate harddrives within the unit, and using a well built backup system. I guess I don't have all the experience in the world with RAID, but if I had to choose a RAID array for my current 2 MacOS X 10.1.x servers, I would choose the Apple one.
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Think about this, Xserve's are built to be in a rack. The Apple RAID arrays are built to be in a rack (although they don't have to be). Lots of people have their server racks very far away from their offices. Like if you had your server housed at semaphore? (semaphore.net) Or Exodus, or whereever, it doesn't matter. Some businesses keep their servers maybe a floor below the computer people, this means if something breaks, you are right there to fix it. How much time does it take for you to fix it? Does it take $500 worth of your time in the life of the product? Will your savings in brand and/or quality make up for your time? Will the Apple RAID arrays work better since they are all pieced together the same? These things are made to _work_. They are not a empty box, with connectors on it, waiting for some noname, or bandname harddrives to be installed. They all have the same thing. Why? Apple tests to see if the drives they put in their/your equipment work, if the drive works well enough, Apple mass produces it.
To make sure people don't think I'm on the wrong side here, I have to say this too. Apple's bean counters (yeah, the people who think about MONEY) have created some problems with Apple hardware. I had quite a problem hooking some iMac's and G4's to a managed hub some time back. Why was this? This is because Apple had switched some Ethernet controller switch and it happened to not be compatible with the 10megabit hub we were using. How did I fix this, before the software update was available? I had gone out and bought like 20 or 30 Netgear 5-port 10/100 switches to install in between the machines and the old "POS" hub. I would have replaced the hub with a HP 10/100 switch, but the wiring in the building was not good enough for this, and the hub wasn't my responsibility, it belonged to another department (Computing and Communications). (Yes, I work for a University.)
Bottom line;
No Hassle. Saves time. Maybe even saves money.
You choose. Something you know works? Or something that _may_ work. I will always choose something that just plain works.
Think I'm lazy? I'm not really. Well, sometimes. But, my servers run. My servers KEEP running. I have far better uptimes than anyone else that I personally know at the University I work at. Some of the big mainframes have been up quite a bit longer, but I don't have the kind of money they spend on the UPSes. I also keep the upgrades rolling in. Some think that uptime matters more, more than updates even. I don't run updates during working hours, I stay late, I do them after hours. Does this cause short outages for a person or two every year? Sure. I do believe that out of the (hang on, checking logs......) 18 minutes my FileMaker Pro server was down last year, that nobody even tried to use it.
I bought a keychain mass storage memory thingy the other month. I chose a "256MB Lexar Media Jump Drive 2.0" for the brand and model. Why? Because I _know_ it will work. I plugged this thing into my USB 1.1 port (G4, mirrored drive doors running MacOS X 10.2.x). Guess what happened? A drive icon popped up on the desktop called "LEXAR MEDIA" or some such. I didn't have to do _anything_ except plug the thing in. So that night I came home, plugged it into my Dell Dimension XPSB866, running Windoze 2000, had to click "OK" a few times and it did the same thing, just popped up on my screen. Now this is quality. ((On another note, MacOS X didn't ask _anything_ when seeing this device, windows did. Makes me think.)) It's USB 2.0 (good for my PC anyways, the Mac doesn't seem to understand what USB 2.0 is, at least not a NEC USB 2.0 card on MacOS X 10.2.3ish.) Lexar Media is a good brand. (Lexar Media is the _only_ company that Sony has allowed to make Memory Sticks.) Of course other brands were cheaper, but I don't know for sure if they will work. I also don't know for sure that they will be supported in future versions of MacOS or Windows. I am pretty damned sure Lexar Media will be around for some time to come. I don't know this about some other companies, and I sure as hell don't have time to check every company I see a matching product for. I know this wasn't a huge purchase, but I think it's a good example.
Before I go. I wish to say something. I believe MacOS X is the best OS I have used. I have used many many OSes. Windoze 95-XP, MacOS 6-9, all sorts of *NIX command lines (which I do love still, nothing like a 80 column 25 line black terminal) and of course X11. MacOS X 10.2.x (not so much the earlier versions) is a whole lot more advanced than all of these. Things just work. I don't want to mess around configuring stuff all over the place. I plug something in, it works.
OK, I'm done ranting. Send one back eh? I love arguing.
(wow, I just previewed. Longest comment I've ever sent, but a LONGSHOT.
Blah blah blah. I'm _finally_ done now.
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If you don't read macslash and you do read apple.slashdot, then this is news. I of course load www.apple.com and store.apple.com 2 or 3 times a week, so its not news to me. Don't assume everyone reads the same websites that you do, because they don't. I emailed the link to this /. article to someone at work yesterday, and it was news to them. Before you bash people, think about it. :)
(Don't flag me as FLAMEBAIT please!
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<rant> .com used for commercial companies, .net used for networking companies and .org used for non-profits. Why did these open up? Why didn't _new_ TLDs open up for general public? I mean, .edu, .gov and others are _restricted_ to certain places and such. .com should be for commercial companies _only_. So, I have a .net and thats good and all, but why not have general public TLDs and block off all the others? Sometimes its hard to tell which domains do what. verizonreallysucks.com is hardly something that should be under the .com TLD. I mean, come on. Finally, I suppose it's too late to do _any_ of these changes. I just wish things weren't opened up in the first place. I know I may be wrong and they may have never been restricted, but at one point if they weren't restricted then people actually registered domains that were in the correct TLDs, instead of companies registering ALL the TLDs with their company name.
I agree with _some_ of this message. There are too many domains, and the TLDs dont describe what kind of domain it is anymore. Once upon a time, there used to be
We all know Pepsi is going to be under pepsi.com. We all know they are not a networking company (.net) or a non-profit (.org).
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You see, I thought The Sims was a great game, but it was the _only_ program (out of a lot that I have used) on my Win2k machine that crashed it. I ended up quitting the game all together because of this. I played a lot of other games on that machine, and still do without any crashing. Pretty weird if you ask me. So, finally.. I would not buy the Sims online game because of this.t /
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That's not true. You can compile kernels that don't allow the booting of single user mode, and there are many other ways to lock down *NIX OSes.