1.5 is a great firmware in the PSP, so keep it at that version.
If you feel the need to run software requiring a newer version (up till 2.71 ATM) 1.5 allows you to run http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devhook which lets you load firmware from the MS without touching the firmware in the PSP itself.
"I can understand the frustration when I mention things like the Broadcom wireless NIC in my laptop. Broadcom has been less than forthcoming with information about any of their chips, even their wired NICs from what I hear."
You have a chipset unsupported by ndiswrapper?
"But please also understand my frustration at all the work it takes to keep a Linux system running as a daily personal desktop."
Now who is trolling?
"I just don't have the free time anymore to try & get things to work, or to hunt down a particular model of a peripheral with a specific chipset that I know will work with my system."
So you being lazy makes Linux not ready for the desktop! This attitude makes any OS not ready for its consumers. I often have to hold the "average consumers hand" to setup/fix their system because they are even to lazy (or just don't care) to figure out how to install/upgrade drivers/programs, even when the producer is spoonfeeding them with a simple setup.exe on a CD.
"The fact is that the desktop Linux market isn't large enough for it to be worth Apple's while to create an iTunes port - and even if they made one, it almost certainly couldn't include the music store, due to DRM and GPL conflicts"
It's Linux its fault that there is no driver for $HARDWARE. The damned developers should be doing a better job writing drivers without documentation/support from scratch, the lazy bastards.
If you were really interested in Linux you would have done some homework before buying.
But they actually learned from the last big disaster. An effort to prevent it in the future only cost some 5000000000 EUR and 30 years to construct.
And the last decade there was much todo about the river dykes, much of the land near the main rivers is above sea level but below the river level. The map on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_control_in_the_ Netherlands shows a larger danger area.
If the ex-monopolist supplies broadband to any area, that means it's broadband competitors can also supply to that area. The ex-monopolist also may not sell services at a loss.
Reading your post I guess the major problem is: "Most American businesses won't invest in something unless they can expect to be profitable in 3-5 years."
HP supporting Debian will not change the installation nightmare on new machines, unless they supply an updated (and thus unofficial) installation disk for their machines. But links to those can already be found on the debian site anyway.
Welcome to the wonderful world of the X-Windowing System. There a GUI can be launched when needed.
And on typing vs. clicking: just modify the AD "challenge" to add 50 users. Are you still going to click them into existence or are you going to script it?
Knoppix has failed me many times (but worked even more times) on desktop machines. Even knoppix 5.0.1 failed to do the simple task of installing grub. Any grub related command completly froze on an opteron, something you kinda need after moving the root partition to soft RAID-1.
And the persons who made the new debian installer images should be the first ones against the wall. Please supply some utilities with the installer, a cp with recursion or a tar that can actualy create archives would be nice, even grub is missing.
You just made clear that every "output" needs its own escaping, that is why one ALWAYS should escape "output". Validating input is a nice bonus, if possible at all.
"If a second company can't even survive in a big city using leased access to lines, there's no WAY that a second company could make it with the hundreds of millions of dollars it would cost to lay down new wires."
Last year a fibre network was installed in my neighbourhood, the costs were 500EUR per household for about 6000 homes, a mere 3 million for a network that supports up to 80mbit internetconnections, both analog and digital (HD)TV and phone.
"A. unregulated (in which the consumer gets royally screwed), B. highly regulated (in which they can at least be forced to lease the lines to competitors to some degree, but in which the balance will still always strongly favor the incumbent over any competition), or C. government owned (in which line leasing can be done in a fair way that actually promotes competition). What web have now is B. We've tried A. Neither of them work, as should be clear by now to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention."
Strange but over here (NL) we have situation B. It works very well thank you very much.
There are many DSL providers, either using the ex-monopolists own DSL network, a competing one or their own. Almost everywhere cable internet is available and I'll just ignore UMTS/GPRS providers.
The only reason to watch was a decent story till the Shadows got defeated, most of S04 was a disappointment and after seeing 3 eps. of S05 I finaly gave up on it, the bad acting finaly out weighed the story (not that I can remember what S05 was about).
My guess would be that this would be the easiest way. But I would strongly recommend to first restore/etc (if possible without overwriting the new files after initial minimal install) and then install all old packages. That way the apt/dpkg will help you with conflicts in these files.
Debian/amd64 unstable is the first unstable that really IS unstable. I have some issues with python stuff (Xen refused to work, apt-proxy is running but unusable and maybe more).
But since the machine is usable I haven't taken the time to investigate and submit bugreports (shame on me).
All bittorrent clients will let you throttle down and upload speeds, good ones will let you control what to do once the download is complete.
Limit your upload to a couple of kb/s if your ISP has such silly TOS (even better switch to one that doesn't). But just remember that the faster you upload, the more interest other peers will have in exchanging blocks with you (==faster downloads).
But this idea is just plain silly for a desktop: added complexity with a diminishing speed gain the more disks you add.
What the article says is not important since it's about expensive hardware where as a desktop raid is cheap disks + some software glue.
To flood a SATA150 bus you only need 2 high performance disks. So you suggestion would most likely be 2 raptors raid0 and 2 lowends raid1/0 (on a 4 port controller). When the cheap storage is idle one will get max read/write, less when active (hard to guess how much). Also the system needs some LVM layer which migrates data between physical disks when idle. On a busy system that may mean write speeds degrade when no space is left on the fast section during long continious writes.
With 4 lowend disks one always gets about the max SATA150 reads and 3/4 that in write speeds (resp. the approx 180 and 130 MB/s I mentioned), the software for this is already being included in popular OSes for years.
So a RAID5 is not only cheaper per MB storage, it's more reliable. Downside is writes take more CPU time and one loses 1/#drives max speed. On the upside again the technology is already here for many years vs. vapourware.
Why? For the price of a 36Gb Raptor you can get 300Gb el cheapo drives. I put 4 of those in a RAID5 on my SATA1 controller and get write speeds of 130MBytes/s (reads at 180MBytes/s according to dd). More diskspace with a higher reliability compared to RAID0 without the need to move suff around.
Sure the drives are more likely to fail, but then again so is that single 250Gb "for everything else" drive.
Does anyone know where we can find the pictures for $LATEST_ATROCITIES by $WESTERN_COUNTRY in $THIRDWORLD_COUNTRY? Or has that government still not released them in fear of outrage about them?
There are already such services on the internet. Since local telcos and internet providers with a voip product want to see monthly subscription fees, I simply switched to prepaid SIP providers reducing the 10 EUR/month bill to 25 EUR/year
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Yeah, due to all that stealing she had to trade in her Gulfstream IV for a III, its DVD player doesn't even have a remote controll. The poor child.
1.5 is a great firmware in the PSP, so keep it at that version.
If you feel the need to run software requiring a newer version (up till 2.71 ATM) 1.5 allows you to run http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devhook which lets you load firmware from the MS without touching the firmware in the PSP itself.
It also lets you run UMD images from MS.
"I can understand the frustration when I mention things like the Broadcom wireless NIC in my laptop. Broadcom has been less than forthcoming with information about any of their chips, even their wired NICs from what I hear."
You have a chipset unsupported by ndiswrapper?
"But please also understand my frustration at all the work it takes to keep a Linux system running as a daily personal desktop."
Now who is trolling?
"I just don't have the free time anymore to try & get things to work, or to hunt down a particular model of a peripheral with a specific chipset that I know will work with my system."
So you being lazy makes Linux not ready for the desktop! This attitude makes any OS not ready for its consumers. I often have to hold the "average consumers hand" to setup/fix their system because they are even to lazy (or just don't care) to figure out how to install/upgrade drivers/programs, even when the producer is spoonfeeding them with a simple setup.exe on a CD.
"The fact is that the desktop Linux market isn't large enough for it to be worth Apple's while to create an iTunes port - and even if they made one, it almost certainly couldn't include the music store, due to DRM and GPL conflicts"
Care to explain this conflict you are imagining?
Yawn.
It's Linux its fault that there is no driver for $HARDWARE. The damned developers should be doing a better job writing drivers without documentation/support from scratch, the lazy bastards.
If you were really interested in Linux you would have done some homework before buying.
But they actually learned from the last big disaster. An effort to prevent it in the future only cost some 5000000000 EUR and 30 years to construct.
_ Netherlands shows a larger danger area.
And the last decade there was much todo about the river dykes, much of the land near the main rivers is above sea level but below the river level.
The map on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_control_in_the
It was even covered on /. (:0 7/13/0834241
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/
That reminds me of Settlers (2) that could make use of 2 pointers (never tried it myself)
I personally can't think of any use for it but a Multi-Pointer X Server already exists:
http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/mpx/
My main point was the fibreoptics network in metropolitan areas not costing hundreds of millions of dollars.
And the population density has not effect on a regulation agency like http://www.opta.nl/asp/en/
If the ex-monopolist supplies broadband to any area, that means it's broadband competitors can also supply to that area. The ex-monopolist also may not sell services at a loss.
Reading your post I guess the major problem is:
"Most American businesses won't invest in something unless they can expect to be profitable in 3-5 years."
You normally don't run Debian I guess?
HP supporting Debian will not change the installation nightmare on new machines, unless they supply an updated (and thus unofficial) installation disk for their machines. But links to those can already be found on the debian site anyway.
Welcome to the wonderful world of the X-Windowing System. There a GUI can be launched when needed.
And on typing vs. clicking: just modify the AD "challenge" to add 50 users.
Are you still going to click them into existence or are you going to script it?
You are little to enthusiastic.
Knoppix has failed me many times (but worked even more times) on desktop machines. Even knoppix 5.0.1 failed to do the simple task of installing grub. Any grub related command completly froze on an opteron, something you kinda need after moving the root partition to soft RAID-1.
And the persons who made the new debian installer images should be the first ones against the wall. Please supply some utilities with the installer, a cp with recursion or a tar that can actualy create archives would be nice, even grub is missing.
You just made clear that every "output" needs its own escaping, that is why one ALWAYS should escape "output". Validating input is a nice bonus, if possible at all.
"If a second company can't even survive in a big city using leased access to lines, there's no WAY that a second company could make it with the hundreds of millions of dollars it would cost to lay down new wires."
Last year a fibre network was installed in my neighbourhood, the costs were 500EUR per household for about 6000 homes, a mere 3 million for a network that supports up to 80mbit internetconnections, both analog and digital (HD)TV and phone.
"A. unregulated (in which the consumer gets royally screwed), B. highly regulated (in which they can at least be forced to lease the lines to competitors to some degree, but in which the balance will still always strongly favor the incumbent over any competition), or C. government owned (in which line leasing can be done in a fair way that actually promotes competition). What web have now is B. We've tried A. Neither of them work, as should be clear by now to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention."
Strange but over here (NL) we have situation B. It works very well thank you very much.
There are many DSL providers, either using the ex-monopolists own DSL network, a competing one or their own. Almost everywhere cable internet is available and I'll just ignore UMTS/GPRS providers.
Actually Debian has been signing packages for some time now.
Hear, hear.
The only reason to watch was a decent story till the Shadows got defeated, most of S04 was a disappointment and after seeing 3 eps. of S05 I finaly gave up on it, the bad acting finaly out weighed the story (not that I can remember what S05 was about).
My guess would be that this would be the easiest way. But I would strongly recommend to first restore /etc (if possible without overwriting the new files after initial minimal install) and then install all old packages. That way the apt/dpkg will help you with conflicts in these files.
Debian/amd64 unstable is the first unstable that really IS unstable.
I have some issues with python stuff (Xen refused to work, apt-proxy is running but unusable and maybe more).
But since the machine is usable I haven't taken the time to investigate and submit bugreports (shame on me).
"Why can't MySpace screen it's advertisers?"
s /2100-7349_3-5463323.html
I don't know about myspace but a company I worked for years ago got hit by a similar problem. At that time they were letting Falk serve ads, a machine there got compromised and was used to spread images using some IE exploit:
http://news.com.com/Attackers+strike+using+Web+ad
All bittorrent clients will let you throttle down and upload speeds, good ones will let you control what to do once the download is complete.
Limit your upload to a couple of kb/s if your ISP has such silly TOS (even better switch to one that doesn't). But just remember that the faster you upload, the more interest other peers will have in exchanging blocks with you (==faster downloads).
But this idea is just plain silly for a desktop: added complexity with a diminishing speed gain the more disks you add.
What the article says is not important since it's about expensive hardware where as a desktop raid is cheap disks + some software glue.
To flood a SATA150 bus you only need 2 high performance disks. So you suggestion would most likely be 2 raptors raid0 and 2 lowends raid1/0 (on a 4 port controller). When the cheap storage is idle one will get max read/write, less when active (hard to guess how much). Also the system needs some LVM layer which migrates data between physical disks when idle. On a busy system that may mean write speeds degrade when no space is left on the fast section during long continious writes.
With 4 lowend disks one always gets about the max SATA150 reads and 3/4 that in write speeds (resp. the approx 180 and 130 MB/s I mentioned), the software for this is already being included in popular OSes for years.
So a RAID5 is not only cheaper per MB storage, it's more reliable. Downside is writes take more CPU time and one loses 1/#drives max speed. On the upside again the technology is already here for many years vs. vapourware.
Why? For the price of a 36Gb Raptor you can get 300Gb el cheapo drives. I put 4 of those in a RAID5 on my SATA1 controller and get write speeds of 130MBytes/s (reads at 180MBytes/s according to dd). More diskspace with a higher reliability compared to RAID0 without the need to move suff around.
Sure the drives are more likely to fail, but then again so is that single 250Gb "for everything else" drive.
Does anyone know where we can find the pictures for $LATEST_ATROCITIES by $WESTERN_COUNTRY in $THIRDWORLD_COUNTRY? Or has that government still not released them in fear of outrage about them?
There are already such services on the internet. Since local telcos and internet providers with a voip product want to see monthly subscription fees, I simply switched to prepaid SIP providers reducing the 10 EUR/month bill to 25 EUR/year