The rover is dead. Somebody has already stripped the hub caps and key'd the side of the vehicle. Left rear axle is up on blocks. Birds have covered the front and rear windows with poop.
It doesn't look good for the little guy who's now 359 days into the extended mission.
It is unlikely that a tow truck will reach it anytime soon.
Blaming it on MS is akin to blaming Ford if you forget to lock the door on your car.
Actually the analogy is better said that Ford sells its car with an optional lock feature that can be enabled by a certified Ford technician or a person with some automotive repair experience. If you don't have the feature enabled... then it's your fault if your car gets stolen.
It slightly out of date, but the Dell Latitude D600 handles Linux really well. Mine has a Dell 1350 wifi (so you have to use the ndiswrapper stuff) and the winmodem is the conextant thing, so you have to use the linuxant stuff (14.4K max unless you pay).
What I like about the laptop is that it has good acpi handling and suspend to disk works.
I'm using the supplied radeon driver which is semi-accelerated, so you do get workable 3d... but don't expect to play doom3 on it.
We use these laptops at work and I just bought a refurb from Dell for my wife because they work with Linux so well.
I got the D600 with a 1.6Ghz P-M and then upgraded it to 1G ram myself. I have the 1024x768 screen. It's a nice small (and relatively inexpensive) laptop. It's not a powerhouse... but tons faster than our 1Ghz P-M Toshiba 3000 that it replaced.
You can use the Dell 610 (the latest model), but just remember that not everything will work out of the box with that one.. you'll have to do some extra work on it (as with most Sonoma's.. primarily because of the SATA controller).
The IP-addresses may change when Microsoft changes their DNS Architecture.
Update: Occasionally, when the IPs change, you will be temporarily using OpenBSD and ISC BIND and so the names might look like NS1.OSDL.ORG, then after awhile it will get switched back to our secure Windows infrastructure.
There may be a security reason for us to do this, but the good news is that we won't tell you if this is the case, thus preserving your corporate security status (in other words you can stay "GREEN" while the problem is worked on in secret!).
Read "I Am Not Spock" by Leonard Nimoy sometime if you want to know the answer.
Nimoy... Nimoy.. he's the author of "I Am Spock", isn't he?? Popular name, I'm probably confused.
Hey.. I hear that Baker is pitching a Dr. Who spin off detailing the life of Dr. Who as a young Time Lord. I think he's calling it "Dr. Whosie M.D." or some such. Might get Will Wheaton to play the Dr.!
Chipsets like the ICH6M supply an Intel SATA controller that is used to manage both SATA and PATA devices. However the SATA support in 2.6.11 only recognizes disks, not CDROMs. This forces you to use the ide_generic driver to gain visibility to your CD/DVD, BUT with that you will NOT have DMA (which makes having a CD/DVD rather painful). Also, I noticed that the throughput using a PATA device through a combo SATA/PATA controller is not good under Linux. It has a lot to do with PATA since not all systems (especially laptops) have independent IDE/ATA vs. SATA controllers. A lot of the new Sonoma based laptops will have a shared SATA/PATA controller. I can assure you it is not working well right now under Linux.
Actually.. I have a Dell M70, and I can assure you that using a SATA/PATA controller with a PATA CDROM and a PATA disk, that the disk works, but is SLOW and the CDROM doesn't work at all.. requires the use of ide-generic which eliminates the ability to do DMA. A LOT more work is needed on this stuff. A LOT.
I'm glad it works in your config, but I'd say it's 50/50 at best and if one day you find your data to not be coherent.. you may just feel that more work is needed on this as well.
Did you even look at the nvnews.net site for patches? If you had you would have found:
http://nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46676
This is where you need to go for patches before the next formal release is out.
That was good... probably will be let down if I go and see the movie. I wonder if we'll see a Special Edition version of the Play-By-Play in Pictures. Just hope they don't insert too much Gungan.
I just got a message letting me know that my account had been sending out a lot of spam and it came with an attachment to help clean the virus off my system.
Now that's good proactive security. Everyone will be receiving their message soon. Keep up the good work!
Saddam Hussein to talk about WMDs and the future of the United States of America? Seems about as useful.... shoot, I think I'd rather hear that than anything Martin Taylor has to say.
I was talking just a couple of weeks ago with an HP tech support person onsite. I was asking him about the Itanium mess and the fact that HP had eliminated thier Itanium workstation line and that the had shipped the Itanium chip boys back to Intel. He didn't say much about the workstation line, but did say that he thought the Itanium chip boys would be much better off at Intel. He said morale was really, really low at HP right now. I got the feeling that just about everyone he knew at HP was looking for a job OUTSIDE of HP.
I heard that special agent Lazarus was currently trapped somewhere between matter and anti-matter doing battle with his counterpart from an alternate universe.
Frankly, I think we've all been duped by this false news post.
I don't think you fully understand market competition. Often times, it is well worth the effort to get the additional percent, or even fractional percent when the market is already saturated with vendors. If you don't get that one percent, you're competition will. Granted, Intel isn't exactly a latop manufacturer, but there are chipset alternatives out there and Intel knows that there will be even more down the road. Might as well pick up every imaginable share of the market before the others attempt to steal it away from you.
You hit the nail on the head. When I remember my Amiga, I did not love the platform because the OS, it was the hardware.
Amiga as it was is indeed dead. It is sad to consider this new and completely different thing to be "Amiga" somehow. It is not. Not even close.
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The rover is dead. Somebody has already stripped the hub caps and key'd the side of the vehicle. Left rear axle is up on blocks. Birds have covered the front and rear windows with poop. It doesn't look good for the little guy who's now 359 days into the extended mission. It is unlikely that a tow truck will reach it anytime soon.
1. This would certainly lessen the workload of converting all of those Unix boxes to handle their end of time problem.
2. The U.S. gov't won't believe this until a movie comes out about it... oh... wait a minute!
Actually the analogy is better said that Ford sells its car with an optional lock feature that can be enabled by a certified Ford technician or a person with some automotive repair experience. If you don't have the feature enabled... then it's your fault if your car gets stolen.
How strange, a car-computer analogy on slashdot!
What I like about the laptop is that it has good acpi handling and suspend to disk works.
I'm using the supplied radeon driver which is semi-accelerated, so you do get workable 3d... but don't expect to play doom3 on it.
We use these laptops at work and I just bought a refurb from Dell for my wife because they work with Linux so well.
I got the D600 with a 1.6Ghz P-M and then upgraded it to 1G ram myself. I have the 1024x768 screen. It's a nice small (and relatively inexpensive) laptop. It's not a powerhouse... but tons faster than our 1Ghz P-M Toshiba 3000 that it replaced.
You can use the Dell 610 (the latest model), but just remember that not everything will work out of the box with that one.. you'll have to do some extra work on it (as with most Sonoma's.. primarily because of the SATA controller).
I'm running SUSE 9.2 on it.
DNS1.CP.MSFT.NET 207.46.138.20
DNS2.CP.MSFT.NET 207.46.138.21
DNS3.CP.MSFT.NET 207.46.138.126
DNS4.CP.MSFT.NET 207.46.245.230
DNS5.CP.MSFT.NET 64.4.25.30
DNS7.CP.MSFT.NET 207.46.138.14
The IP-addresses may change when Microsoft changes their DNS Architecture.
Update: Occasionally, when the IPs change, you will be temporarily using OpenBSD and ISC BIND and so the names might look like NS1.OSDL.ORG, then after awhile it will get switched back to our secure Windows infrastructure.
There may be a security reason for us to do this, but the good news is that we won't tell you if this is the case, thus preserving your corporate security status (in other words you can stay "GREEN" while the problem is worked on in secret!).
Nimoy... Nimoy.. he's the author of "I Am Spock", isn't he?? Popular name, I'm probably confused.
Hey.. I hear that Baker is pitching a Dr. Who spin off detailing the life of Dr. Who as a young Time Lord. I think he's calling it "Dr. Whosie M.D." or some such. Might get Will Wheaton to play the Dr.!
Chipsets like the ICH6M supply an Intel SATA controller that is used to manage both SATA and PATA devices. However the SATA support in 2.6.11 only recognizes disks, not CDROMs. This forces you to use the ide_generic driver to gain visibility to your CD/DVD, BUT with that you will NOT have DMA (which makes having a CD/DVD rather painful). Also, I noticed that the throughput using a PATA device through a combo SATA/PATA controller is not good under Linux. It has a lot to do with PATA since not all systems (especially laptops) have independent IDE/ATA vs. SATA controllers. A lot of the new Sonoma based laptops will have a shared SATA/PATA controller. I can assure you it is not working well right now under Linux.
Actually.. I have a Dell M70, and I can assure you that using a SATA/PATA controller with a PATA CDROM and a PATA disk, that the disk works, but is SLOW and the CDROM doesn't work at all.. requires the use of ide-generic which eliminates the ability to do DMA. A LOT more work is needed on this stuff. A LOT. I'm glad it works in your config, but I'd say it's 50/50 at best and if one day you find your data to not be coherent.. you may just feel that more work is needed on this as well.
Did you even look at the nvnews.net site for patches? If you had you would have found: http://nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46676
This is where you need to go for patches before the next formal release is out.
And now the Chinese! C'mon all you Chinese. "Yo eee ya goshee-ee eee ha ya eehee...
That was good... probably will be let down if I go and see the movie. I wonder if we'll see a Special Edition version of the Play-By-Play in Pictures. Just hope they don't insert too much Gungan.
Now that's good proactive security. Everyone will be receiving their message soon. Keep up the good work!
So now the RIAA has to use an ice pick to break out of their confines.... just a minor set back.
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000667030930/ Might as well slashdot them all!!
Mod this as much shock and awe as you wish.
I was talking just a couple of weeks ago with an HP tech support person onsite. I was asking him about the Itanium mess and the fact that HP had eliminated thier Itanium workstation line and that the had shipped the Itanium chip boys back to Intel. He didn't say much about the workstation line, but did say that he thought the Itanium chip boys would be much better off at Intel. He said morale was really, really low at HP right now. I got the feeling that just about everyone he knew at HP was looking for a job OUTSIDE of HP.
Frankly, I think we've all been duped by this false news post.
Seriously.. If you don't know who Russ is, you probably have never been to a Linux conference, or have never attempted qmail.
I figure the patents for 2 and 3 button mice were already taken.
I don't think you fully understand market competition. Often times, it is well worth the effort to get the additional percent, or even fractional percent when the market is already saturated with vendors. If you don't get that one percent, you're competition will. Granted, Intel isn't exactly a latop manufacturer, but there are chipset alternatives out there and Intel knows that there will be even more down the road. Might as well pick up every imaginable share of the market before the others attempt to steal it away from you.
You hit the nail on the head. When I remember my Amiga, I did not love the platform because the OS, it was the hardware. Amiga as it was is indeed dead. It is sad to consider this new and completely different thing to be "Amiga" somehow. It is not. Not even close.
Support for today's problems and the future DRM problems of tomorrow.
I saved my support log for people with potty mouths (you must work for comcast) like you.
Talking to Comcast, even if you RENT your modem from them, THEY WILL NOT upgrade your modem without CHARGING YOU for a service call. Isn't that swell!