I'm testing Server 2008 Standard (32-bit) in vmware on my workstation. I'm using it to do compatibility testing for my company's software. Its Vista minus some eye candy and is a little quicker I think. I have a 3.6GHz 64-bit Xeon, and I alotted 1GB RAM to the VM, and Server 2008 ran just fine.
The bigger question is, what support problems are you having with XP64? Yes, there were major issues with it for a while (I have it on my workstation when I need Windows) but those have been fixed by now. Now I'm not sure there's anything XP64 is missing that XP32 workstations have.
And of course, since this is slashdot, I have to recommend installing Linux. Most of the time my workstation is running Suse, and runs $250,000 industrial CAD/CAM software splendidly.
You make it sound so easy, but clearly you have never tried to spot an airplane. At just a few hundred feet you will not see or hear an aircraft like this, even in a cloudless, sunny sky. I was trained in the operation of the AV Raven, and once that thing is 20 seconds away from you, you can't see or hear it.
"IDEs? They have some, but they are horribly overpriced things like Rational Apex (an ADA IDE) that cost 30,000 dollars a license and are vastly inferior to Microsoft's Visual Studio."
Military aircraft fly because of Ada, not anything written in MS Visual Studio. You have no concept of what high-end commercial software licensing costs, what it is used for, or who the target end users are. The biggest user of Rational is Lockheed Martin. Does this make sense now?
There's nothing that says these NOAA UAVs will be flying in US airspace, because right now it is still illegal. The only places in the US that UAV can fly are restricted airspaces. There's no "severe stupidity" at work here. There's only your knee-jerk, think-of-the-"happy, loving family" reaction to technologies you are clearly unfamiliar with.
If I were you, I wouldn't try to thrill the kids by inducing a stall in your 172 in a mountain range. Air currents in a mountain range are such that you could easily find yourself flipped over or finding new and exciting ways to attempt to control your aircraft.
No, the character of Americans is better expressed by saying, "I'll do whatever I want in my garage on Thursday nights, and if you have a problem with it, you can take it up with my HERF gun or my Glock."
"If someone punches you in the face, do you beat them to death with a crowbar? No, you punch them back. If someone pulls a knife on you, do you pull out your grenade launcher?"
You've obviously never seen the cinematic masterpiece that is "Deathwish 3."
"A simplistic example: they could have been running both engines off one tank - which went dry - though another was full - or both engines were being fed from a common fuel pump which failed, etc."
Possible both engines were running off one tank. You can't run one tank empty and have the other full, you would have lateral CG problems leading to uncontrollability. You also cannot run both engines from a single pump; flight critical systems (engines) are triple redundant. Thus there cannot be a single point of failure.
'In one case, a North Dakota auto lube shop owner claims that a Dell monitor he purchased caught fire and burned down his business'
An electrical device starting a fire at a place loaded with flammable materials? I loathe Dell, but this seems like it could have happened due to any number of other reasons. Unless of course the monitor was in an office far away from the shop.
I proudly use a Model M on my workstation at work, it was born in 1992. I can type faster on it than the cheap Dell keyboards that came with the rest of our workstations, and it still looks brand new, even after almost 16 years. Management knows how much I love my "clicky" keyboard and are quite aware that if it is going to be replaced they are going to have to pry it from my cold, dead hands.
The next time a person improperly uses the verb "brick" I will teach them the real meaning by bricking them. Yes, smashing someone in the noggin with a brick is in fact "bricking" a human.
Every Dell Precision workstation I have purchased over the last six years has had Firewire implemented on it, along with front and rear ports. I also have two Dell laptops that came with Firewire. If by "few computers" you mean "computers built by the largest manufacturer of computers in the world" then sure, "few computers" other than Macs have Firewire.
You should probably shop around for drive enclosures. $30 premium for Firewire? You can buy encrypting Firewire/USB2.0 enclosures for less than $50.
No, the eSATA stuff has come along and is useful for NEW equipment, but the millions of machines that corporate users have all include Firewire, and they don't all include eSATA, and thus there is definitely a strong market for Firewire equipment that still exists, and will continue to exist for several years. Capability-wise, there is far more that the 1394 spec can do than SATA; they aren't true competitors.
Computers aren't just for geeks and home users. When a company like Boeing decides to stop buying computers with Firewire, then maybe you can say Firewire is dead.
For a small company, the calendaring and scheduling abilities in Mozilla Lightning (a Thunderbird plugin) work very well. There are no problems working with Outlook users either. An Outlook user can invite a Thunderbird user to a meeting, and Lightning will schedule it in the calendar, and vice versa.
Maybe this is why I've had several multiaxis MEMS angle sensors freak out or just die on me for no apparent reason. Good power, good grounding, good data acquisition box, all operational conditions within spec, but after use, they just crap out.
You bring up a good point. While we're at it, let's see about having everyone in the Phelps family disbarred also. I don't think anyone would complain, and the Kansas Bar will be far more respectable.
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I'm testing Server 2008 Standard (32-bit) in vmware on my workstation. I'm using it to do compatibility testing for my company's software. Its Vista minus some eye candy and is a little quicker I think. I have a 3.6GHz 64-bit Xeon, and I alotted 1GB RAM to the VM, and Server 2008 ran just fine.
The bigger question is, what support problems are you having with XP64? Yes, there were major issues with it for a while (I have it on my workstation when I need Windows) but those have been fixed by now. Now I'm not sure there's anything XP64 is missing that XP32 workstations have.
And of course, since this is slashdot, I have to recommend installing Linux. Most of the time my workstation is running Suse, and runs $250,000 industrial CAD/CAM software splendidly.
You make it sound so easy, but clearly you have never tried to spot an airplane. At just a few hundred feet you will not see or hear an aircraft like this, even in a cloudless, sunny sky. I was trained in the operation of the AV Raven, and once that thing is 20 seconds away from you, you can't see or hear it.
"IDEs? They have some, but they are horribly overpriced things like Rational Apex (an ADA IDE) that cost 30,000 dollars a license and are vastly inferior to Microsoft's Visual Studio."
Military aircraft fly because of Ada, not anything written in MS Visual Studio. You have no concept of what high-end commercial software licensing costs, what it is used for, or who the target end users are. The biggest user of Rational is Lockheed Martin. Does this make sense now?
There's nothing that says these NOAA UAVs will be flying in US airspace, because right now it is still illegal. The only places in the US that UAV can fly are restricted airspaces. There's no "severe stupidity" at work here. There's only your knee-jerk, think-of-the-"happy, loving family" reaction to technologies you are clearly unfamiliar with.
If I were you, I wouldn't try to thrill the kids by inducing a stall in your 172 in a mountain range. Air currents in a mountain range are such that you could easily find yourself flipped over or finding new and exciting ways to attempt to control your aircraft.
No, the character of Americans is better expressed by saying, "I'll do whatever I want in my garage on Thursday nights, and if you have a problem with it, you can take it up with my HERF gun or my Glock."
Yes, I am an American.
On my site for January:
Browser\Hits\Total traffic percentage
MSIE 75533 63.2 %
Msie 7.0 35980 30.1 %
Msie 6.0 39247 32.8 %
Msie 5.5 91 0 %
Msie 5.17 14 0 %
Msie 5.01 67 0 %
Msie 5.00 32 0 %
Msie 5.0 48 0 %
Msie 4.01 4 0 %
Msie 4.00 12 0 %
IE6 is still winning.
"If someone punches you in the face, do you beat them to death with a crowbar? No, you punch them back. If someone pulls a knife on you, do you pull out your grenade launcher?"
You've obviously never seen the cinematic masterpiece that is "Deathwish 3."
"A simplistic example: they could have been running both engines off one tank - which went dry - though another was full - or both engines were being fed from a common fuel pump which failed, etc."
Possible both engines were running off one tank. You can't run one tank empty and have the other full, you would have lateral CG problems leading to uncontrollability. You also cannot run both engines from a single pump; flight critical systems (engines) are triple redundant. Thus there cannot be a single point of failure.
'In one case, a North Dakota auto lube shop owner claims that a Dell monitor he purchased caught fire and burned down his business'
An electrical device starting a fire at a place loaded with flammable materials? I loathe Dell, but this seems like it could have happened due to any number of other reasons. Unless of course the monitor was in an office far away from the shop.
I proudly use a Model M on my workstation at work, it was born in 1992. I can type faster on it than the cheap Dell keyboards that came with the rest of our workstations, and it still looks brand new, even after almost 16 years. Management knows how much I love my "clicky" keyboard and are quite aware that if it is going to be replaced they are going to have to pry it from my cold, dead hands.
I shall name mine Erwin.
Interestingly, all the "OMG GMAIL LOLZ PINE IS FOR LOOSERS" posts are all from people with UIDs greater than 850000. Coincidence?
The kids these days...
The next time a person improperly uses the verb "brick" I will teach them the real meaning by bricking them. Yes, smashing someone in the noggin with a brick is in fact "bricking" a human.
I don't know, but instead of playing Rock Band, maybe people could learn to play real instruments.
Get off my lawn.
Every Dell Precision workstation I have purchased over the last six years has had Firewire implemented on it, along with front and rear ports. I also have two Dell laptops that came with Firewire. If by "few computers" you mean "computers built by the largest manufacturer of computers in the world" then sure, "few computers" other than Macs have Firewire.
You should probably shop around for drive enclosures. $30 premium for Firewire? You can buy encrypting Firewire/USB2.0 enclosures for less than $50.
No, the eSATA stuff has come along and is useful for NEW equipment, but the millions of machines that corporate users have all include Firewire, and they don't all include eSATA, and thus there is definitely a strong market for Firewire equipment that still exists, and will continue to exist for several years. Capability-wise, there is far more that the 1394 spec can do than SATA; they aren't true competitors.
Computers aren't just for geeks and home users. When a company like Boeing decides to stop buying computers with Firewire, then maybe you can say Firewire is dead.
is not an intelligence agency.
Right around 61st and South LSD would actually probably be a really great place to leave a spacecraft. It could join with a few of its friends. :)
Its not the water that is a problem, its the salt in that water. You run into accelerated corrosion problems with exposure to ocean water.
Windows bricks YOU!!!
For a small company, the calendaring and scheduling abilities in Mozilla Lightning (a Thunderbird plugin) work very well. There are no problems working with Outlook users either. An Outlook user can invite a Thunderbird user to a meeting, and Lightning will schedule it in the calendar, and vice versa.
Maybe this is why I've had several multiaxis MEMS angle sensors freak out or just die on me for no apparent reason. Good power, good grounding, good data acquisition box, all operational conditions within spec, but after use, they just crap out.
You bring up a good point. While we're at it, let's see about having everyone in the Phelps family disbarred also. I don't think anyone would complain, and the Kansas Bar will be far more respectable.
Ah. That would be my cue to get another cup of coffee.
If the camera is called Dodeca, why does it only have 11 lenses?
So why don't you all take a flying fsck at a rolling donut.
:)
All of you.
Now.
You're all stupid.
You're wrong, and I'm smarter than you.
Your imaginary girlfriends all like me better.
NERDS.
Oh, and your Mac sucks, too.
Sigh...the things I have to do to avoid the temptation of using mod points on this thread.