Use a different bank? Theres plenty out there, not like MS has a monopoly on banks.. The bank i use actually lists firefox as a supported browser, but will allow unlisted browsers to access the site just without any guarantee of functionality... Any bank which forces you to use a piece of software with such a poor security track record as IE is being terribly irresponsible, increasing the risk of fraud etc.. I wouldn't be surprised to see banks explicitely denying IE based on it's poor security in a year or two.
Well, dell laptops are __CRAP__... Cheap plastic construction, corners cut at every opportunity, comparable quality but higher price than the cheapest of brandless laptops available from asia.. Theyre unreliable, the battery life is poor, the build quality is terrible, in the cheap nasty ones you cant even remove/replace the cdrom etc, virtually none of them have onboard serial ports, and linux compatibility with dell laptops has been getting worse and worse... One bios upgrade for the latitude 2500 breaks X11 completely by initializing the displaycard in a nonstandard way, doesnt provide any benefits, it was just done to break non-windows os's..
MSN is often claimed to be one of the most popular sites in the UK, but this isn't people choosing to visit it, it's mostly because ie defaults to it and a lot of people can't hit stop quick enough before its loaded...
Not to mention those of us with sparc or alpha hardware hooked up to huge fibrechannel disk arrays, which are absoloutely perfect for downloading files onto. That's exactly what i do anyway, on solaris irix and linux.
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Actually, most irc bots are based on eggdrop, which is opensource and written in C. Most addons to eggdrop are written in TCL tho, which is an interpreted language.
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Not to mention all the huge channels populated by a few thousand ddos drones and one kid who controls them all, which must also classify as illegal activity.
Actually, the 500au systems were designed to run UNIX, Linux or VMS... Mine came with the IDE cdrom and redhat preinstalled, the ones sold for/with VMS came with SCSI cdrom's.
None of the Alpha's with only AlphaBIOS (for NT) and no SRM will run vms, this is only the AlphaXL series as far as i know.. Also, the multia isn't supported with VMS but there are hacks to get it working, every other Alpha should run VMS just fine..
Well then, why dont you buy a Cray X1 for your desktop, it will cost you a fortune and your power bill will be crazy, but it will be way faster than anything else.. Also the performance/watt and performance/mhz will actually be higher than any x86 chip, just the shear size of the machine will consume huge amounts of power... It also has it's own inbuilt refrigeration units to keep the whole rig cool.
Well, hyperthreading is a hack to increase the performance of inefficient code, same as the branch prediction and other crap, well optimized code actually runs faster if you turn hyperthreading off.. All of these problems are caused by closed source binary software, if you had the sourcecode you could rebuild the code with a newer compiler to take advantage of the new cpu and not stall the pipeline etc. The original alpha chips had no branch prediction or such, they required good code otherwise you stalled the pipeline, but they were massively faster than anything else available at the time and the architecture was always very clean.
Reducing power consumption in desktops is important too, even if you don't care about the environment, electricity still costs you money.. As for servers, its even more important there... If you have a datacenter with 5000 servers and you can replace those servers with ones that use 1 watt less of power then that's 5000 watts of power you save on the servers, plus 5000 watts worth of heat that your cooling system no longer needs to get rid of.
And it's expensive, so you may aswell buy another commercial offering like checkpoint, which is far more powerfull... ISA also cannot handle the same throughput of a checkpoint or a unix firewall on the same hardware.. I was working at a site using one just last week and it was constantly causing trouble, despite there being 6 of them supposedly load balanced.. And the ISA service itself depends on so many other things such as RPC and DCOM, things that really have no place whatsoever on a firewall. And the name.. ISA is still associated with slow old isa cards.
Because MS don't have a monopoly over handheld devices, if many people have handheld devices that can't interoperate with their servers people will be pressured to use standards compliant servers instead.
That's actually very easy to do with unix, and always has been, ms is still playing catchup in this respect. And then there's thin clients, so you configure it on one or two big servers and all the clients connect in which makes it even easier. The issue is unix-targetted apps running on ms os's, which lack the facilities unix has, and instead comes up with it's own propriatory ways of doing things which aren't compatible with the open standard ways.
Actually, its binary data wrapped in XML.. it looks something like:
DOCTYPE XML BLA BLA BLA BLA
with the big chunk of binary data being the actual document. I was going to post an example, but the only version of msoffice i have here is the mac version, which doesn't support the xml format atall.
Well instead of using the closed ms formats, they should mandate the use of an already open format, such as the one output by OO.o, and if MS wants to compete in this market they would need to implement support for this format, which wouldn't be hard to do since the format is fully documented and open.
The word xml format is hardly xml atall, it just looks like a big chunk of binary data uuencoded (or encoded in a more propriatory way) inside a single xml tag.. try it sometime.
2.6.10 has been fine for me... If that is the first kernel version that supports your hardware then clearly the drivers for this hardware are very new and not thoroughly tested, which is what your doing.. Give it time and file a few bug reports and it will get fixed.. Lots of non opensource drivers are incredibly buggy the first few revisions too.
Because firefox has acquired 2% in a matter of months and is increasing all the time, Apple has been gradually slipping down for years and is now around 3%. Tho now it looks like apple will start to climb again.
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Use a different bank?
Theres plenty out there, not like MS has a monopoly on banks.. The bank i use actually lists firefox as a supported browser, but will allow unlisted browsers to access the site just without any guarantee of functionality... Any bank which forces you to use a piece of software with such a poor security track record as IE is being terribly irresponsible, increasing the risk of fraud etc.. I wouldn't be surprised to see banks explicitely denying IE based on it's poor security in a year or two.
Well, dell laptops are __CRAP__...
Cheap plastic construction, corners cut at every opportunity, comparable quality but higher price than the cheapest of brandless laptops available from asia..
Theyre unreliable, the battery life is poor, the build quality is terrible, in the cheap nasty ones you cant even remove/replace the cdrom etc, virtually none of them have onboard serial ports, and linux compatibility with dell laptops has been getting worse and worse... One bios upgrade for the latitude 2500 breaks X11 completely by initializing the displaycard in a nonstandard way, doesnt provide any benefits, it was just done to break non-windows os's..
MSN is often claimed to be one of the most popular sites in the UK, but this isn't people choosing to visit it, it's mostly because ie defaults to it and a lot of people can't hit stop quick enough before its loaded...
Not to mention those of us with sparc or alpha hardware hooked up to huge fibrechannel disk arrays, which are absoloutely perfect for downloading files onto. That's exactly what i do anyway, on solaris irix and linux.
Actually, most irc bots are based on eggdrop, which is opensource and written in C. Most addons to eggdrop are written in TCL tho, which is an interpreted language.
Not to mention all the huge channels populated by a few thousand ddos drones and one kid who controls them all, which must also classify as illegal activity.
Actually, the 500au systems were designed to run UNIX, Linux or VMS... Mine came with the IDE cdrom and redhat preinstalled, the ones sold for/with VMS came with SCSI cdrom's.
None of the Alpha's with only AlphaBIOS (for NT) and no SRM will run vms, this is only the AlphaXL series as far as i know..
Also, the multia isn't supported with VMS but there are hacks to get it working, every other Alpha should run VMS just fine..
Intel did release drivers for linux, but not specifications.. This still doesnt help users of FreeBSD or such tho..
Well then, why dont you buy a Cray X1 for your desktop, it will cost you a fortune and your power bill will be crazy, but it will be way faster than anything else.. Also the performance/watt and performance/mhz will actually be higher than any x86 chip, just the shear size of the machine will consume huge amounts of power... It also has it's own inbuilt refrigeration units to keep the whole rig cool.
Nodoubt they have the best power/performance ratio of any x86 cpu, but they are still quite a way behind other architectures.
Well, hyperthreading is a hack to increase the performance of inefficient code, same as the branch prediction and other crap, well optimized code actually runs faster if you turn hyperthreading off..
All of these problems are caused by closed source binary software, if you had the sourcecode you could rebuild the code with a newer compiler to take advantage of the new cpu and not stall the pipeline etc. The original alpha chips had no branch prediction or such, they required good code otherwise you stalled the pipeline, but they were massively faster than anything else available at the time and the architecture was always very clean.
Reducing power consumption in desktops is important too, even if you don't care about the environment, electricity still costs you money..
As for servers, its even more important there... If you have a datacenter with 5000 servers and you can replace those servers with ones that use 1 watt less of power then that's 5000 watts of power you save on the servers, plus 5000 watts worth of heat that your cooling system no longer needs to get rid of.
The newer a/b/g cisco cards work nicely too, also with the madwifi drivers... I don't know if there's any other a/g cards which work for sniffing
And it's expensive, so you may aswell buy another commercial offering like checkpoint, which is far more powerfull...
ISA also cannot handle the same throughput of a checkpoint or a unix firewall on the same hardware.. I was working at a site using one just last week and it was constantly causing trouble, despite there being 6 of them supposedly load balanced.. And the ISA service itself depends on so many other things such as RPC and DCOM, things that really have no place whatsoever on a firewall.
And the name.. ISA is still associated with slow old isa cards.
It's a lot more fun to make every file setuid root aswell, not just world writeable.
Because MS don't have a monopoly over handheld devices, if many people have handheld devices that can't interoperate with their servers people will be pressured to use standards compliant servers instead.
That's actually very easy to do with unix, and always has been, ms is still playing catchup in this respect. And then there's thin clients, so you configure it on one or two big servers and all the clients connect in which makes it even easier. The issue is unix-targetted apps running on ms os's, which lack the facilities unix has, and instead comes up with it's own propriatory ways of doing things which aren't compatible with the open standard ways.
Actually, its binary data wrapped in XML.. it looks something like:
DOCTYPE XML BLA BLA BLA BLA
with the big chunk of binary data being the actual document. I was going to post an example, but the only version of msoffice i have here is the mac version, which doesn't support the xml format atall.
Well instead of using the closed ms formats, they should mandate the use of an already open format, such as the one output by OO.o, and if MS wants to compete in this market they would need to implement support for this format, which wouldn't be hard to do since the format is fully documented and open.
The word xml format is hardly xml atall, it just looks like a big chunk of binary data uuencoded (or encoded in a more propriatory way) inside a single xml tag.. try it sometime.
2.6.10 has been fine for me... If that is the first kernel version that supports your hardware then clearly the drivers for this hardware are very new and not thoroughly tested, which is what your doing.. Give it time and file a few bug reports and it will get fixed.. Lots of non opensource drivers are incredibly buggy the first few revisions too.
Because firefox has acquired 2% in a matter of months and is increasing all the time, Apple has been gradually slipping down for years and is now around 3%. Tho now it looks like apple will start to climb again.
It's called DOS.
But the gui component runs on the headless machines still,a total waste... And you have to use the admin tools via a remote gui like rdp or vnc.