And then those OEMs wonder why their demand dries up.
Windows 7 is pushing more and more people towards Linux[1] and Mac[2], and it looks like Windows 8 will only exacerbate that move. If people find that they can't boot Linux on one vendors offerings, they will look somewhere else. OpenBIOS, anyone?
[1] Despite the best efforts of the GNOME and KDE teams. [2] Yes, we all know that Apple are at least as evil as Microsoft but some people still look for shiny rather than functional or ethical.
With Firefox 6.x on Arch Linux, opening with the obligatory "Well, this is embarrasing" window, FF bounces between 400M and 700M every few minutes before it has loaded a single page.
That is true, and CentOS comes with the useful 389 LDAP Directory Server.
However I do worry about the future of such projects since it is maintained primarily by a single person (who has recently returned after a period AWOL). I realise this isn't 100% representative since most public RHEL support information on the web also applies to CentOS.
WP tells me that between 5% and 10% of HIV cases are though to be caused by blood transfusions. Now please consider, of those 5 to 10 percent, how many are likely to give blood for others to receive? Because without unprotected sex or needle-sharing that would be the only significant method of propagation. Do you see how this does not make for a sustainable propagation for any pathogen?
I guess you got modded to +5 for mentioning a Science Fiction author on Slashdot.
We are sexual people. We don't just "turn sex off", that is not how we work.
Nonsense. No one, except in unfortunate brutal circumstances, is ever compelled to have sex. You always have the choice, no matter what your genitals are telling you. The whole "sexual being" argument was made up to justify and in a sense create a culture of promiscuity with very few boundaries.
Only if their manufacturing industry collapses. Remember that the reason you're sending all your money over there in exchange for cheap goods is twofold:
1. Labour is cheaper since unions are effectively banned 2. Environmental laws are effectively non-existent (as in, they exist but are ignored)
If their manufacturing plants start adhering to sane environmental regulations there will be higher overheads which will translate to less incentive to send manufacturing over there.
That is, if there is any manufacturing skill left in the west by then...
I may get flamed by the Ubuntu/Fedora crowd for this, but for servers I use and recommend Debian stable.
There are two major reasons for this: great support and things don't change unexpectedly. Because of its long release cycle you rarely see the latest and greatest versions of anything in the repos, but if anything mission-critical is needed these can be installed manually. Some recent python libraries or Firefox builds come to mind. See http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ for a graphical view of recent Debian releases.
The current Stable release ("Squeeze") meets your MySQL and PHP version requirements (5.1 and 5.3.3 respectively).
In terms of technology companies, Microsoft have been pure evil since the 80's. Apple have been wanna-be evil (ie evil at heart but not big enough to flaunt it) since the 90's. Now that they have reached mega-corp status they have indeed revealed themselves to be every bit as evil as Microsoft.
The closest thing we have to that at the moment is Harmy's de-specialised editions, taken from various sources so still in SD.
For me, the definitive version of ANH is now Adywan's Star Wars: Revisited. It still has Special Edition elements so isn't a preservation effort per se (although there is a "purist" release that attempts to strip out non-original content).
Every frame, including blaster bolts and lightsabers is colour-corrected and re-touched in meticulous detail, as well as continuity fixes that only the most nit-picking will fully appreciate.
Although only ANH is finishes, he plans on doing the whole saga. ESB isn't far away. He even has a second unit filming troops and models.
Everytime I hear about efforts to preserve and/or scan historical film stock, I shed a tear for what has happened to three films in another space series released in 1977, 1980 and 1983.
1. They always find something. It only takes six lines written by the most honest man to find something on which to hang him. 2. 3. -- 4. Censorship is obscene. 5. Patriotism is bigotry. 6. Slashdot is unusable without noscript.
Why should who signed the certificate make any difference? SSL should be only for establishing a secure channel between the two parties, not identification. For that we have DNSSEC.
I'm not usually one to complain about advertising on Slashdot. Hell, I used to enjoy seeing what was new at ThinkGeek every now and then.
But this is just irresponsible. I like tinkering with 75mW lasers, but am very worried that some 13 year old is going to blind himself or his friends with one of these and our country will get similar restrictive legislation as Australia, Canada, USA, ruining it for the rest of us.
These "pop a balloon at 30 yards" lasers are extremely dangerous. As someone may have already stated here, a specular reflection from one of these will blind you quicker than your blink reflex.
Further, if this is a DPSS laser, then there will be a significant amount of undetectable-to-the-naked-eye unfocussed infra-red leakage, unless the IR filter is perfect (unlikely).
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Unfortunately, this is not unconstitutional at all, precisely because the Supreme Court has not yet declared it as such.
If you don't like it, please think carefully about the system you voted in.
The official year of NOTHING on the desktop?
(not that I believe that for a minute, but couldn't go without making that silly joke)
And then those OEMs wonder why their demand dries up.
Windows 7 is pushing more and more people towards Linux[1] and Mac[2], and it looks like Windows 8 will only exacerbate that move. If people find that they can't boot Linux on one vendors offerings, they will look somewhere else. OpenBIOS, anyone?
[1] Despite the best efforts of the GNOME and KDE teams.
[2] Yes, we all know that Apple are at least as evil as Microsoft but some people still look for shiny rather than functional or ethical.
With Firefox 6.x on Arch Linux, opening with the obligatory "Well, this is embarrasing" window, FF bounces between 400M and 700M every few minutes before it has loaded a single page.
This is stupid.
You drink, but ethanol is for cars? What do you drink, propanol?
That is true, and CentOS comes with the useful 389 LDAP Directory Server.
However I do worry about the future of such projects since it is maintained primarily by a single person (who has recently returned after a period AWOL). I realise this isn't 100% representative since most public RHEL support information on the web also applies to CentOS.
Okay. Oh wait I can't because he's dead.
WP tells me that between 5% and 10% of HIV cases are though to be caused by blood transfusions. Now please consider, of those 5 to 10 percent, how many are likely to give blood for others to receive? Because without unprotected sex or needle-sharing that would be the only significant method of propagation. Do you see how this does not make for a sustainable propagation for any pathogen?
I guess you got modded to +5 for mentioning a Science Fiction author on Slashdot.
We are sexual people. We don't just "turn sex off", that is not how we work.
Nonsense. No one, except in unfortunate brutal circumstances, is ever compelled to have sex. You always have the choice, no matter what your genitals are telling you. The whole "sexual being" argument was made up to justify and in a sense create a culture of promiscuity with very few boundaries.
Again, you can choose to do the right thing.
So fucking what? Some people will commit murder but we for some reason still teach our kids not to do it.
Only if their manufacturing industry collapses. Remember that the reason you're sending all your money over there in exchange for cheap goods is twofold:
1. Labour is cheaper since unions are effectively banned
2. Environmental laws are effectively non-existent (as in, they exist but are ignored)
If their manufacturing plants start adhering to sane environmental regulations there will be higher overheads which will translate to less incentive to send manufacturing over there.
That is, if there is any manufacturing skill left in the west by then...
I may get flamed by the Ubuntu/Fedora crowd for this, but for servers I use and recommend Debian stable.
There are two major reasons for this: great support and things don't change unexpectedly. Because of its long release cycle you rarely see the latest and greatest versions of anything in the repos, but if anything mission-critical is needed these can be installed manually. Some recent python libraries or Firefox builds come to mind. See http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ for a graphical view of recent Debian releases.
The current Stable release ("Squeeze") meets your MySQL and PHP version requirements (5.1 and 5.3.3 respectively).
Yeah, and Quake was originally about a guy running around with a big hammer.
In terms of technology companies, Microsoft have been pure evil since the 80's. Apple have been wanna-be evil (ie evil at heart but not big enough to flaunt it) since the 90's. Now that they have reached mega-corp status they have indeed revealed themselves to be every bit as evil as Microsoft.
Boycott them both.
Now that ntbackup has been deprecated, how about a decent backup tool that isn't that horrible abomination that comes bundled with Server 2008+?
Fantasy, dude, Star Wars is Space Fantasy.
Or Space Opera if you like.
This looks to me like CPU frequency scaling, which has been common on desktop PCs since 2004.
Having said that, reducing your CPU by a factor of 16 does seem much more impressive than the 2-3 which is usually employed.
The closest thing we have to that at the moment is Harmy's de-specialised editions, taken from various sources so still in SD.
For me, the definitive version of ANH is now Adywan's Star Wars: Revisited. It still has Special Edition elements so isn't a preservation effort per se (although there is a "purist" release that attempts to strip out non-original content).
Every frame, including blaster bolts and lightsabers is colour-corrected and re-touched in meticulous detail, as well as continuity fixes that only the most nit-picking will fully appreciate.
Although only ANH is finishes, he plans on doing the whole saga. ESB isn't far away. He even has a second unit filming troops and models.
Luxury. Some process-control systems are still running Windows 3.x
...or just build your own like I did. There's no shortage of decent G34 motherboards.
2-cpu (24-core) systems can be made up pretty easily provided you can afford the CPUs in the first place.
Everytime I hear about efforts to preserve and/or scan historical film stock, I shed a tear for what has happened to three films in another space series released in 1977, 1980 and 1983.
Great to see this coming back - something that my kids can play with and learn from.
Now just bring back Capsela and I will be complete.
1. They always find something. It only takes six lines written by the most honest man to find something on which to hang him.
2.
3. --
4. Censorship is obscene.
5. Patriotism is bigotry.
6. Slashdot is unusable without noscript.
Got you
Why should who signed the certificate make any difference? SSL should be only for establishing a secure channel between the two parties, not identification. For that we have DNSSEC.
I'm not usually one to complain about advertising on Slashdot. Hell, I used to enjoy seeing what was new at ThinkGeek every now and then.
But this is just irresponsible. I like tinkering with 75mW lasers, but am very worried that some 13 year old is going to blind himself or his friends with one of these and our country will get similar restrictive legislation as Australia, Canada, USA, ruining it for the rest of us.
These "pop a balloon at 30 yards" lasers are extremely dangerous. As someone may have already stated here, a specular reflection from one of these will blind you quicker than your blink reflex.
Further, if this is a DPSS laser, then there will be a significant amount of undetectable-to-the-naked-eye unfocussed infra-red leakage, unless the IR filter is perfect (unlikely).
Just one more reason to stop buying Made In China.
Right.
Now.