I just want a phone on which I control the software. In their lust to sell 5 second MIDI clips for $1.95, companies like Nokia have so far refused to release a phone with a general purpose OS. Give me a phone with a good screen and input device, IP over the phone network and Bluetooth, slap Linux on it, and very quickly it will have a set of applications which will bury anything else out there. I'm using a Treo 600 now, and the hardware is almost there, but I'd prefer to have an OS. You know, with a filesystem, multitasking, and a toolset which doesn't cost $50 for every dinky little component.
An example of what I'd like to be able to do: highlight graphics or text on my desktop machine, send it through ssh over IP over Bluetooth type application over bluetooth to the phone.
Or, simple voice recording on the phone, which could then be simply uploaded to the PC. I know that there's an app for this on the Treo now, but it would have been available 6 months sooner on an equivalent Linux device.
So tell me, would having a superior, vastly cheaper software environment, in which the applications and data can easily be replicated to newer equipment down the road... would this sell hardware or not?
We have about ten HP ZT1175 laptops. These don't appear to be affected by this RAM issue, but we have had to RMA six or seven of them in the first year due to catastrophic hardware failures. Linux support was terrible, as well, and if you tell HP you're using Linux, even in dual boot, good luck getting an RMA.
It took a long time for me to convince my boss to switch to another vendor. The reason? We're such experts with HP's RMA procedures now. That's right, they're so unreliable that we'll give them all our business!
By issuing this form of a fix, Netgear is stating that they are not just incompetent, they are deliberately so, and they think everybody else is as stupid as they are. I've rarely seen such negligence and contempt for customers.
Well, not that rarely:
The Winnuke Patch
You're right, it's the delta-vee that gets ya. Everybody on planet earth is moving at over 100,000 kilometers per hour. As long as none of us stops, nobody gets hurt.
As long as everybody's going nearly the same speed, which is typically near the "natural" speed limit (official speed limit + ~5-10mph), you're fine. A 65 mph road becomes much more dangerous when people see a cop and decide to drive 50 instead of 70, which causes cars to bunch up close together, at a speed significantly slower than cars approaching from behind would expect. Cops are a traffic harard, I tell ya.
I've stayed at a hotel (C??rty?rd) which, on top of $10/day for Internet access, has proxies configured to hijack requests for Amazon. If you try to buy something through their connection, they rewrite the headers to get the referral credit. This should be illegal... I noticed because at the time I stayed, their code was a little broken, at least with Moz/Linux, but it was clear from the error message what they were attempting. I just used an SSH tunnel through one of my systems for the rest of my browsing... but I'm sure they made some nice bucks from the victim class (MS/IE users).
So you're telling me that the blue, color shifting, overly bright headlights apparently designed with the specific purpose of blinding oncoming drivers and ruining night vision... cost $3k to replace.
I was surprised by this too. As far back as 1990, every time I saw Leahy's name he was on the side of individual freedom and privacy. Until the PATRIOT act came out, actually. I was severely disappointed to see him vote for the abolition of everything he's always stood for. It looks like he's sold out completely, now. I guess it pays a lot better than representing the people.
It seems to be a problem with everybody who's been in a high level office for 20+ years or so. By the time you've made it that far you've signed so many deals with the devil that when you cut yourself shaving, only air comes out.
It sounds good. On the other hand, to date HP's Linux support has been execrable, at least for their laptops and printers. Most of the features can be made to work, if you're patient or willing to buy proper 3d drivers from xig, but you will not find much help or remotely current drivers on their horrible, horrible web site.
Also, will the machines cost as much as equivalent hardware with Windows licenses?
Eh, I'll give them a few months. I'll be very happy if they prove me wrong.
The only simple, honest answer to this is: it depends.
If your jobs stay completely inside the CPU cache, and nothing else is happening in the system, and the scheduler is smart enough not to swap the tasks between CPUs without good reason, you should see very nearly 100% scalability. The larger the cache, the more likely this is, so at this point smaller jobs favor Xeon CPUs over Athlon/Opterons.
Most jobs do need to access memory and disk, though. In these cases, the Opteron architecture does well, as the Hypertransport bus gives each CPU "dedicated" access to RAM.
Another data point: I recently bought a Ahanix Silenx 400W PSU from Ahanix. Fabulous PSU, very nearly silent (they claim 14db). I already had a decent CPU fan from Zalman, so after installing the PSU the loudest part of the system turned out to be the Western Digital 120GB drive. It was far louder than I'd suspected; so loud and high-pitched that I think it must have been getting gradually louder over time, which is a little scary. I'd just installed a 200GB Seagate, so I copied my data over and unplugged the WD. The system is very tolerable now. To the point that I won't mess with it anymore until I can get a completely passively cooled CPU/video SFF system.
So I highly recommend the SilenX PSUs and the Seagate 200G drives.
Hmm, I haven't seen a popup on my machines in months. Not that there aren't techniques which would fool Mozilla (and Konqueror, et al), but they don't seem to be widely deployed. Now if only the Flash blockers worked on both OBJECT and EMBED tags...
If "freedom of speech" means that I have to let people call me to offer products I don't want, then "freedom of assembly" must mean that I can't prevent random groups of bastards from meeting at my house to shoot smack and whistle.
Just as reliable as theatre ticket systems?
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Many movie theatres in Denver have touch-screen systems running Windows. They're very convenient, when they work; I've used them about a dozen times at several theatres. I would have used them twice that often if they hadn't been crashed.
Of course, I'm stupid for using ATMs as often as I do, so maybe this is a good thing. It will encourage us to carry more cash or use less, because there will be a significant chance that nearby ATMs will not be working.
All these multiverse ideas lead to a remarkable synthesis between cosmology and physics, giving substance to ideas that some of us had ten or 20 years ago. But they also lead to the extraordinary consequence that we may not be the deepest reality, we may be a simulation. All these multiverse ideas lead to a remarkable synthesis between cosmology and physics, giving substance to ideas that some of us had ten or 20 years ago. But they also lead to the extraordinary consequence that we may not be the deepest reality, we may be a simulation.
Whoa, deja vu!
What?
I just read a sentence, then a second later I read a sentence just like it.
How much like it? Was it the same sentence?
It might have been. I'm not sure. What is it?
A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.
You mean, when will compiling a Linux kernel, which most users will never need to do, become as straightforward as recompiling your Windows kernel, which you can't do?
make xconfig && make dep && make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install && make install
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How can you be richer than yourself? That doesn't make sense.
...that was the best thing I had going for me. It's what got me through the day. What do I have to look forward to now? Nothing, that's what!
An example of what I'd like to be able to do: highlight graphics or text on my desktop machine, send it through ssh over IP over Bluetooth type application over bluetooth to the phone.
Or, simple voice recording on the phone, which could then be simply uploaded to the PC. I know that there's an app for this on the Treo now, but it would have been available 6 months sooner on an equivalent Linux device.
So tell me, would having a superior, vastly cheaper software environment, in which the applications and data can easily be replicated to newer equipment down the road... would this sell hardware or not?
It took a long time for me to convince my boss to switch to another vendor. The reason? We're such experts with HP's RMA procedures now. That's right, they're so unreliable that we'll give them all our business!
By issuing this form of a fix, Netgear is stating that they are not just incompetent, they are deliberately so, and they think everybody else is as stupid as they are. I've rarely seen such negligence and contempt for customers. Well, not that rarely: The Winnuke Patch
As long as everybody's going nearly the same speed, which is typically near the "natural" speed limit (official speed limit + ~5-10mph), you're fine. A 65 mph road becomes much more dangerous when people see a cop and decide to drive 50 instead of 70, which causes cars to bunch up close together, at a speed significantly slower than cars approaching from behind would expect. Cops are a traffic harard, I tell ya.
I've stayed at a hotel (C??rty?rd) which, on top of $10/day for Internet access, has proxies configured to hijack requests for Amazon. If you try to buy something through their connection, they rewrite the headers to get the referral credit. This should be illegal... I noticed because at the time I stayed, their code was a little broken, at least with Moz/Linux, but it was clear from the error message what they were attempting. I just used an SSH tunnel through one of my systems for the rest of my browsing... but I'm sure they made some nice bucks from the victim class (MS/IE users).
Not bad, I'm thinking about switching. The only question is, what's the license on pi? If it's not GNU/pi, no thanks!
Suit: But you ain't bona fide!
Interesting.
Three years and this is the first thing he's done I can agree with.
It seems to be a problem with everybody who's been in a high level office for 20+ years or so. By the time you've made it that far you've signed so many deals with the devil that when you cut yourself shaving, only air comes out.
It sounds good. On the other hand, to date HP's Linux support has been execrable, at least for their laptops and printers. Most of the features can be made to work, if you're patient or willing to buy proper 3d drivers from xig, but you will not find much help or remotely current drivers on their horrible, horrible web site.
Also, will the machines cost as much as equivalent hardware with Windows licenses?
Eh, I'll give them a few months. I'll be very happy if they prove me wrong.
...sorry.
The only simple, honest answer to this is: it depends. If your jobs stay completely inside the CPU cache, and nothing else is happening in the system, and the scheduler is smart enough not to swap the tasks between CPUs without good reason, you should see very nearly 100% scalability. The larger the cache, the more likely this is, so at this point smaller jobs favor Xeon CPUs over Athlon/Opterons. Most jobs do need to access memory and disk, though. In these cases, the Opteron architecture does well, as the Hypertransport bus gives each CPU "dedicated" access to RAM.
Um, before the election GWB promised that if elected he would kill the case. Publically. And he did.
Another data point: I recently bought a Ahanix Silenx 400W PSU from Ahanix. Fabulous PSU, very nearly silent (they claim 14db). I already had a decent CPU fan from Zalman, so after installing the PSU the loudest part of the system turned out to be the Western Digital 120GB drive. It was far louder than I'd suspected; so loud and high-pitched that I think it must have been getting gradually louder over time, which is a little scary. I'd just installed a 200GB Seagate, so I copied my data over and unplugged the WD. The system is very tolerable now. To the point that I won't mess with it anymore until I can get a completely passively cooled CPU/video SFF system. So I highly recommend the SilenX PSUs and the Seagate 200G drives.
Hmm, I haven't seen a popup on my machines in months. Not that there aren't techniques which would fool Mozilla (and Konqueror, et al), but they don't seem to be widely deployed. Now if only the Flash blockers worked on both OBJECT and EMBED tags...
Yeah, they should hold off on releasing the distribution until the final releases of all the packages are out!
If "freedom of speech" means that I have to let people call me to offer products I don't want, then "freedom of assembly" must mean that I can't prevent random groups of bastards from meeting at my house to shoot smack and whistle.
Of course, I'm stupid for using ATMs as often as I do, so maybe this is a good thing. It will encourage us to carry more cash or use less, because there will be a significant chance that nearby ATMs will not be working.
Whoa, deja vu!
What?
I just read a sentence, then a second later I read a sentence just like it.
How much like it? Was it the same sentence?
It might have been. I'm not sure. What is it?
A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.
make xconfig && make dep && make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install && make install
HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!
Hmm, a full limp bizkit track or alternating 20 second cuts of britney spears and n'sync.
Tough call, actually.