Why? It's incorrect. The OS for the XBOX boots' from the INSIDE LAYER on the RIM of the DVD, counter to normal DVD's being read with sector 0 bein on the OUTSIDE layer at the innermost track on the disc.
If it was the presentation _I've_ seen Blackley put on, it wasn't an accident. He demoed NFL 2k2, then pause the playback, zoomed in on the football in mid flight, and commented that the texturemap for the football ALONE was larger than the entire video memory for the Gamecube.
For all the huffing and puffing I hear about Special Interest Groups, money changing hands, corruption, and the like, occasionally something Really Important comes up that renews my faith in our Government of Checks and Balances.
For every Xbox is failing news item I've seen, I've seen one that says expectations are being met or exceeded. While it's great fun to chat about it at the watercooler, I guess we won't really know until Xbox DVD's start showing up for $.50 at garage sales. At which point I'll buy every game I can find.
(yeah, I bought an Xbox, I'm biased.:P )
How much of the sales dropping off is related to the time of year? I've notice a TON of game development still continuing: www.activexbox.com
I haven't read the article yet...
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Wireless Monitors?
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· Score: 2, Insightful
But having heard about project 'Mira' it's using 802.11b and the virst versions are meant to be an adjunct to your existing monitor. (dual headed solution)
In OEM quantity, adding the WinCE/wifi/battery only adds about $200 to the price of an LCD monitor anyway.
What's funny is, now that I've got WiFi, I'm using a laptop to do a VERY similar thing (remote control the home office computer from the kitchen) with the added benefit of having a second computer if da wife wants to surf the web while I want to do something. (AND having a real entry system...typing www.blah.com or fritz@wherever.org with any non keyboard entry system is kinda tough)
Further, With the laptop remoteing in, I have access to my email early on Sunday morning without waking up the parrots (they're in the home office) which would then wake up Wifey, makeing her cranky - and by extension - ME cranky.
In short, a good technology evolution, but it probably won't replace your monitor if you want fast games or full screen video (11 mbps is a pretty tiney pipe to run a DVD thru.)
That would have made MUCH more sence...
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Unix Isn't Dead
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· Score: 4, Informative
If the article title was 'ALPHA isn't Dead.
Unix's lifespan really isn't in jeopardy.
Another showstopper for me is: With voice recogition, if it mis-recognises It's still spelled correctly
Meaning if you're gather a LOT of stuff, it's very easy to miss something transliterated in the middle of the document. Not good if it's a legal brief.
By the time you've transcribed the text, gone back an read it and formatted it, you might as well have typed it out to begin with.
No, but you can use MMC, or Remote Desktop in an equally secure and easy fashion.
Actually, now that I think about it, you CAN use ssh to removely administer the box. A great deal of the operating system is now exposed to CLI administration. Not that I'd want to. Terminal Server/Remote Desktop is a MUCH better experience.
Excuse me? Sounds like you know Unix better than you know Microsoft. BOTH factions can scale, BOTH factions are flexible. Get deep enough into either OS and you'll find they're pretty interchangable.
"You get what you pay for and our organization (who shall remain anonymous) hired four MCSE's that ultimately cost us many times what a well-trained administrator familiar with MICROSOFT PRODUCTS would have cost us."
There really isn't anything Unix can do that Microsoft can't anymore...This is right up there with arguing Protestants vs. Catholics. (But THAT would have less religios fervor.)
A Paper MCSE is worth the same as a paper CNE or a paper whatever-the-heck-Redhat-was-calling-their-Linux-c ertification.
And that's the Rub! When you sign a check, the burden is on the bank and the vendor to verify that you signed it...and all it says is that you signed it. That's good enough for buying some very expensive things (cars, houses, small countries)
Yes, with a digital signature, you get proof of identity, and along with it, non-repudiation, date stamping, window of validity, revocation lists and a TON of 'useful' stuff that you don't get with an ink signature.
But if you CAN'T make it as EASY as an ink signature, you're not going to get much adoption.
1. Information is stored in _Jet_. Jet is not access, it's also the current datastore for Exchange, which scales rather well if you hadn't noticed. (Site server 3.0 used Access and is a horse of an entirely different color and shape)
2. Digital dashboard makes 80% of the interface easy to manage and change in a drag n drop fashion. The other 20% is XML/XSL exposed and rather easy to program for if you've got a microsoft background.
3. Office XP makes for the BEST user experience, but Portal Server works okay with a web only submission method (IE or Netscape), and fairly well with 98/2000/XP with the portal server Client installed on it. You've just gotta behave well in a check-in/check-out document management system.
Haveing 'picked base libraries' and built my own, this is MUCH better.
Having used Site Server 2.0, and the Rudimentary Content Management that sucked rocks in Site Server 3.0 I've gotta say Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server (Site Server 4.0 essentially) Rocks.
Just like Microsoft leaking plans for the XBox2, like _three_ months after the Xbox debut. (link: http://www.theinquirer.net/21030211.htm and http://www.theinquirer.net/18030204.htm)
You're just seeing the market in action. Calculated pre-release information helps keep people talking, and in some cases can't be helped.
While I'm not defending the practice, I'm reminded what I felt when two of the three big chain grocery stores went to a frequent user card.
I went defiantly to the third. NOBODY needs to know when I buy my Milk and Eggs!
When somebody pointed out that Costco, the Chain I love and frequent, and am frankly a cult member of, does the SAME THING, and has done so for YEARS before the Grocery Stores did it really brought me up short.
This is unfortunately a sign of the times. And without turning unibomber and living in a shack in Wyoming, there's not really much you can do about it. It's similar to the emissions and seat belt laws in the 70's. TONS of people didn't like it, but now it's commonplace.
I doubt it's going to turn into the 1984 that the alarmists paint it as, but It's also going to make more than a few people more than a little upset when it's abused. (IT WILL BE ABUSED. And when it does, the public outcry will make it financially unadvisable to abuse it further.)
The more servers you get, the more it's helpful to have a name that helps you FIND the server.
At my old office, where we had regional servers, we had DHQNTA, DHQ19V, etc, that is Denver HQ, NT server A, 19 Vax, etc.
Currently, our 'rabbit farm' of NT servers (because the numbers keep growing by leaps and bounds) are named by service: SDevWeb01, SWeb, SMail, STestSQL01, etc.
S means it's a server, then Test Dev or Prod, plus a number if it's an actual server, or not if it's a cluster. Thus SWeb is the internal web cluster, but SWeb04 is one of the servers.
This works well if you've got two dozen servers or less...if you were Rackspace, I'd imagine naming the server after it's location on the rack, then pointing a DNS alias to it would be more helpful...pinging JoesBait&ISP is less helpful than pinging Rack014U14 when a NIC dies.
LABEL YOUR SERVERS! Nothing quite like using a console switch, pressing a reset button on the server underneath the console to reboot a dev box, only to realize you REALLY nuked a SIGNIFICANT portion of your enterprise File services!
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This computer's sooo fast I can reboot TWICE as often in half the time!
(Yeah, yeah, there'll be a glib Windows sux reply to this one, I'm sure.)
MOD THAT UP. It's accurate.
If it was the presentation _I've_ seen Blackley put on, it wasn't an accident. He demoed NFL 2k2, then pause the playback, zoomed in on the football in mid flight, and commented that the texturemap for the football ALONE was larger than the entire video memory for the Gamecube.
Would you prefer 'The Brain' in a Cow suit? (The same guy does the voices for Pinky and The Brain)
For all the huffing and puffing I hear about Special Interest Groups, money changing hands, corruption, and the like, occasionally something Really Important comes up that renews my faith in our Government of Checks and Balances.
The stuff that passes for classical fiction these days... Sheesh! Ulysses ain't got NOTHING on Harry Potter.
For every Xbox is failing news item I've seen, I've seen one that says expectations are being met or exceeded. While it's great fun to chat about it at the watercooler, I guess we won't really know until Xbox DVD's start showing up for $.50 at garage sales. At which point I'll buy every game I can find.
:P )
(yeah, I bought an Xbox, I'm biased.
How much of the sales dropping off is related to the time of year? I've notice a TON of game development still continuing: www.activexbox.com
But having heard about project 'Mira' it's using 802.11b and the virst versions are meant to be an adjunct to your existing monitor. (dual headed solution)
In OEM quantity, adding the WinCE/wifi/battery only adds about $200 to the price of an LCD monitor anyway.
What's funny is, now that I've got WiFi, I'm using a laptop to do a VERY similar thing (remote control the home office computer from the kitchen) with the added benefit of having a second computer if da wife wants to surf the web while I want to do something. (AND having a real entry system...typing www.blah.com or fritz@wherever.org with any non keyboard entry system is kinda tough)
Further, With the laptop remoteing in, I have access to my email early on Sunday morning without waking up the parrots (they're in the home office) which would then wake up Wifey, makeing her cranky - and by extension - ME cranky.
In short, a good technology evolution, but it probably won't replace your monitor if you want fast games or full screen video (11 mbps is a pretty tiney pipe to run a DVD thru.)
If the article title was 'ALPHA isn't Dead. Unix's lifespan really isn't in jeopardy.
Another showstopper for me is: With voice recogition, if it mis-recognises It's still spelled correctly
Meaning if you're gather a LOT of stuff, it's very easy to miss something transliterated in the middle of the document. Not good if it's a legal brief.
By the time you've transcribed the text, gone back an read it and formatted it, you might as well have typed it out to begin with.
"Publish documents to the web?"
Certainly...my cellphone will be the gateway FOR MY LAPTOP!
And remote access tools work pretty good on the 128kb capped Cable modem I've got at home...
"Linux 'Weblications' with SlashXP"
:P
I had a hard time picturing CmdrTaco et al. Embracing porting slashcode to XP.
If $username reply = true and sid=02/04/01/1452256
Then set $rtbl= true
D'oh!
No, but you can use MMC, or Remote Desktop in an equally secure and easy fashion.
Actually, now that I think about it, you CAN use ssh to removely administer the box. A great deal of the operating system is now exposed to CLI administration. Not that I'd want to. Terminal Server/Remote Desktop is a MUCH better experience.
Excuse me? Sounds like you know Unix better than you know Microsoft. BOTH factions can scale, BOTH factions are flexible. Get deep enough into either OS and you'll find they're pretty interchangable.
Holdon a minit. You could also say:
c ertification.
"You get what you pay for and our organization (who shall remain anonymous) hired four MCSE's that ultimately cost us many times what a well-trained administrator familiar with MICROSOFT PRODUCTS would have cost us."
There really isn't anything Unix can do that Microsoft can't anymore...This is right up there with arguing Protestants vs. Catholics. (But THAT would have less religios fervor.)
A Paper MCSE is worth the same as a paper CNE or a paper whatever-the-heck-Redhat-was-calling-their-Linux-
And that's the Rub! When you sign a check, the burden is on the bank and the vendor to verify that you signed it...and all it says is that you signed it. That's good enough for buying some very expensive things (cars, houses, small countries)
Yes, with a digital signature, you get proof of identity, and along with it, non-repudiation, date stamping, window of validity, revocation lists and a TON of 'useful' stuff that you don't get with an ink signature.
But if you CAN'T make it as EASY as an ink signature, you're not going to get much adoption.
When your opponent devolves into personal attacks...and ignores 3 of the 4 refuted points...you've already won.
What you've said is grossly innacurate.
1. Information is stored in _Jet_. Jet is not access, it's also the current datastore for Exchange, which scales rather well if you hadn't noticed. (Site server 3.0 used Access and is a horse of an entirely different color and shape)
2. Digital dashboard makes 80% of the interface easy to manage and change in a drag n drop fashion. The other 20% is XML/XSL exposed and rather easy to program for if you've got a microsoft background.
3. Office XP makes for the BEST user experience, but Portal Server works okay with a web only submission method (IE or Netscape), and fairly well with 98/2000/XP with the portal server Client installed on it. You've just gotta behave well in a check-in/check-out document management system.
Haveing 'picked base libraries' and built my own, this is MUCH better.
Having used Site Server 2.0, and the Rudimentary Content Management that sucked rocks in Site Server 3.0 I've gotta say Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server (Site Server 4.0 essentially) Rocks.
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It's improved tremendously in this iteration, although there's still room for improvement. see http://www.zdnet.com/supercenter/stories/review/0
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[ducks...runs out]
Just like Microsoft leaking plans for the XBox2, like _three_ months after the Xbox debut. (link: http://www.theinquirer.net/21030211.htm and http://www.theinquirer.net/18030204.htm)
You're just seeing the market in action. Calculated pre-release information helps keep people talking, and in some cases can't be helped.
While I'm not defending the practice, I'm reminded what I felt when two of the three big chain grocery stores went to a frequent user card.
I went defiantly to the third. NOBODY needs to know when I buy my Milk and Eggs!
When somebody pointed out that Costco, the Chain I love and frequent, and am frankly a cult member of, does the SAME THING, and has done so for YEARS before the Grocery Stores did it really brought me up short.
This is unfortunately a sign of the times. And without turning unibomber and living in a shack in Wyoming, there's not really much you can do about it. It's similar to the emissions and seat belt laws in the 70's. TONS of people didn't like it, but now it's commonplace.
I doubt it's going to turn into the 1984 that the alarmists paint it as, but It's also going to make more than a few people more than a little upset when it's abused. (IT WILL BE ABUSED. And when it does, the public outcry will make it financially unadvisable to abuse it further.)
Now if they'd just get Phil back.
The more servers you get, the more it's helpful to have a name that helps you FIND the server.
At my old office, where we had regional servers, we had DHQNTA, DHQ19V, etc, that is Denver HQ, NT server A, 19 Vax, etc.
Currently, our 'rabbit farm' of NT servers (because the numbers keep growing by leaps and bounds) are named by service: SDevWeb01, SWeb, SMail, STestSQL01, etc.
S means it's a server, then Test Dev or Prod, plus a number if it's an actual server, or not if it's a cluster. Thus SWeb is the internal web cluster, but SWeb04 is one of the servers.
This works well if you've got two dozen servers or less...if you were Rackspace, I'd imagine naming the server after it's location on the rack, then pointing a DNS alias to it would be more helpful...pinging JoesBait&ISP is less helpful than pinging Rack014U14 when a NIC dies.
LABEL YOUR SERVERS! Nothing quite like using a console switch, pressing a reset button on the server underneath the console to reboot a dev box, only to realize you REALLY nuked a SIGNIFICANT portion of your enterprise File services!