And the best thing about the Google ads is that unlike 99+% of advertising they are actually usefull and something that I can use to find a product I want.
Some problems with that: 1)Linux is not preinstalled on 99% of desktop pc's 2)KDE is not the only desktop environment 3)The KDE team is not a monopoly illegally using that status to force their way into another market.
Are you on crack!!! I am furious with Apple for not adding on the go playlist support to the 1.3 firmware and I am far from alone on the subject. Since 58% or iPods sold have been windows versions and the bundled software sucks (musicmatch is trash, the freeware ephpod is much better) it is really a feature we have been asking for since the iPod came out. Besides my music collection is very eclectic and what goes into my playlist varies with my mood, one day I might want Jazz and trance, the next rock and house, still another maybe all classical. Trust me Apple will have some very bad will with a lot of users if they don't backport the feature.
winterminals are nothing new, and thanks to the Citrix created rdp protocol they do it better than everyone else. I have used every remote desktop product out there (X, PcAnywhere, VNC (several versions), etc) and none of them come close to the experience of rdp. It is much lower latency for interactive use and is fully usable over a 28.8 dialup connection (just need to use 16bit or lower and keep resolution at 1024*768 or lower). Plus it can map your local resources like drives and printers automatically so that the remote app can print to your local printer.
You can cp files all day long but it won't get you playback on the iPod, to do that you need to update the database. Of course the DB format for the iPod has been known since just months after initial launch so its not that big a deal, but you do need an app that groks the iPods DB format to update it.
Don't bother with such high rates, use LAME with -extreme (or equivilant) VBR settings, averages about 200-220Kbps and sounds identical to the source material. Just make sure your player supports VBR and 320Kbps max rate (these are the largest frames LAME uses, iPod's are golden with this setup.
The problem isn't their firewire implementation, it's the fact that Creative plays fast and loose with the PCI 2.1 spec and so does Via. If you bring the two together they don't work well at ALL. I had to install a ton of patches just to get audio playback to work well on my KT133a based mobo. I finally gave up on trying to get my iPod to sync via the Audigy and got a 3 port Belkin card barebones online. Haven't had a single problem since =)
You remember wrong, AAC came in second to LAST in the C't reviews at 128kbps. It doesn't even really matter though because if you are worried about quality and have an iPod you will rip with lame at -extreme VBR settings, averages around 200-220kbps across most genres of music (I have classical, jazz, techno, hiphop and rock in my collection) and is indistinguishable from the source using a high quality DAC and Sennheiser heaphones, so definitly nothing thats going to be noticed with the iPod =)
My dad has 8mm tape of his father growing up, so about 70+ years old. We also have photos from my great grandmother that are over 100 years old. Celluid and silver halide prints are pretty damn good for archival purposes, something that none of the modern formats can really claim. Maybe having the VHS tapes transfered to some type of film might be a good solution.
Actually I'm a sys admin for a consultancy who will be an engineer in a year. Bottom of the barrel, hardly. My last position was as a level 3 tech and part time sys admin for a fortune 10 company.
I don't have anything against seeing movies (boycotting the whole movie industry is pointless, there just aren't enough people who care), but there is no way that I would pay $18.74 plus S&H for a DVD of shorts that are available for free online.
hmm, the MCSE bashing really isn't needed or true. I'm an MCSE and CCNA that is working towards his RHCE and has already done several years of linux support both from a desktop and a server role in an enterprise environment. Sure there are people out there who don't deserve the cert, but just because you have it doesn't mean you are a clueless MS drone. But I can tell you that there are FAR fewer people out there with the skills to support linux on the desktop. I have met literaly over one hundred techs in the last couple years and of those maybe 10% could effectivly support linux. That limits you to a much smaller support pool and those that can support linux are typically in the top % of the bracket as far as talent and price.
Actually as of Windows Server 2003 and IIS5 IIS can (and does as default on 2003) run as an unprivilidged account. Also no executable addons are enabled by default (in fact IIS isn't even installed by default, what a nice change!). It may take time but MS is moving towards more sane defaults. In fact the other great evil in the MS world, Outlook has sane defaults with Outlook XP. It will take time before the installed base moves to these newer offerings but that can hardly be blamed on MS. Redhat for years took deserved flak for shipping with tons of services enabled that very few users needed, they finally wised up but it took a long time and a lot of customer concern to reach that goal. And finally ACL's are FAR superior to tradition style Unix permissions for locking down the box, if you want to go command line in windows use the resource kit, they have security auditing tools and command line ACL viewers.
Actually ghost is ok if all your hardware is identical, otherwise there are better solutions that will bootstrap a machine from a netboot to a full windows install with drivers and apps in a couple hours unattended. We also used RH custom kickstart disks and from a tech's perspective it was virtually identical, insert disk, wait, remove disk, walk away. Sure work has to be put into both to setup the installer app, but from what I could tell the two groups were roughly equivilant in size and so should have been able to accomplish roughly the same amount of support work. The liscensing costs for the windows boxes though were through the roof, office, utility apps like winzip, etc whereas we had the cost for redhat and ximian connector, a fraction of the cost. Support costs were lower too, in fact I would say that linux had about 1/3rd the support calls per machine.
Is a newspaper responsible for people not in their employ like say a writer to the OP/ED section? And if so is a simple retraction suffecient to settle the libel claims?
I like their stance on libraries. It makes a lot of sense to link to a private version of the libraries if your goal is stability. Sure it increases disk use some (nothing compared to the output of a multitracker though) and memory use some (again nothing compared to having buffers for multiple high quality PCM streams in ram). This is similar to the way XP and even moreso longhorn are going for criticial libraries, if the version is different from the system default then it gets placed either in a subdirectory under the application or in a special subdirectory of the system library location and called up when the associated program calls the library. This means that none of your core apps or the OS itself get hosed by and update and the other programs behave well because they get the library version they expect.
I know up until very recently DieBold was a big user of OS/2. What would you rather have running your ATM, Windows or OS/2? As to why they haven't picked up free software, I'm not really sure.
The problem is to do actual work you need to go back to electronics (not all the relevant parts exist for optical circuits to act as semiconductor parts) so you need an optoelectric transition and the parts for this are still slower then just pushing the signal across the die. If we could do all the necessary processing without crossing domains then bandwidth would increase tremendously as then all optical switches would become a reality =)
Yes, perhaps something like Windows XP's system restore. You could have all system changes done through a central controll panel where the previous N generations of files were maintained in a timestamped depository. Then if something goes wrong you can boot to a panic disk and restore to a previous dates settings. Combine this with data backup and optional data rollback and you would have a truely nice addition to the Unix as a desktop experience(TM).
In a home system the users home directory is MORE important than the system files. How many people give a flying f' if they have to reinstall the OS?? Most won't if it's fairly easy, they WILL care if their financial spreadsheet or other important doc is deleted, and that is the much harder problem to solve. This is not a distro targeted at servers or multiuser workstations, it is a distro for single user home pc's, if they trash their home dir they are probably going to reinstall anyways, so why add the extra hassle.
Umm, a properly built wireless network can basically scale infinitly. Microsoft has a wireless network at the Redmond campus where they have literally tens of thousands of people on a network in a fairly small area. The only major problem they have had is trying to do streaming video to an entire lecture hall sized room over.11b. Most broadcast traffic isn't actually passed in a well designed network anyways (especially one used by the public rather than inside a company).
It's not that it's ok, it's that it is easier to reinstall the OS ocassionally then it is to do an effective job as a sys admin. There is a reason that sys admins make good money, it is a fairly difficult job to stay on top of with a very large knowledge domain. Desktop/home users don't WANT to be sys admins, they just want to log in, have their computer work, and get their tasks finished. They will willingly give up the frustration of sys admining in exchange for occassional problems, its less of a hassle for them. Just because you set up a multiuser environment for someone doesn't mean it can be done effectivly at a commercial level when selling to the general public.
Actually there are two types of journals, data journals and metadata journals. A data journal works as described but has a heavy impact on performance because all writes must be made twice. Metadata journals such as those used by NTFS and ext3 by default insure filesystem integrity but do nothing to ensure data integrity.
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And the best thing about the Google ads is that unlike 99+% of advertising they are actually usefull and something that I can use to find a product I want.
Some problems with that:
1)Linux is not preinstalled on 99% of desktop pc's
2)KDE is not the only desktop environment
3)The KDE team is not a monopoly illegally using that status to force their way into another market.
Are you on crack!!! I am furious with Apple for not adding on the go playlist support to the 1.3 firmware and I am far from alone on the subject. Since 58% or iPods sold have been windows versions and the bundled software sucks (musicmatch is trash, the freeware ephpod is much better) it is really a feature we have been asking for since the iPod came out. Besides my music collection is very eclectic and what goes into my playlist varies with my mood, one day I might want Jazz and trance, the next rock and house, still another maybe all classical. Trust me Apple will have some very bad will with a lot of users if they don't backport the feature.
winterminals are nothing new, and thanks to the Citrix created rdp protocol they do it better than everyone else. I have used every remote desktop product out there (X, PcAnywhere, VNC (several versions), etc) and none of them come close to the experience of rdp. It is much lower latency for interactive use and is fully usable over a 28.8 dialup connection (just need to use 16bit or lower and keep resolution at 1024*768 or lower). Plus it can map your local resources like drives and printers automatically so that the remote app can print to your local printer.
You can cp files all day long but it won't get you playback on the iPod, to do that you need to update the database. Of course the DB format for the iPod has been known since just months after initial launch so its not that big a deal, but you do need an app that groks the iPods DB format to update it.
Don't bother with such high rates, use LAME with -extreme (or equivilant) VBR settings, averages about 200-220Kbps and sounds identical to the source material. Just make sure your player supports VBR and 320Kbps max rate (these are the largest frames LAME uses, iPod's are golden with this setup.
The problem isn't their firewire implementation, it's the fact that Creative plays fast and loose with the PCI 2.1 spec and so does Via. If you bring the two together they don't work well at ALL. I had to install a ton of patches just to get audio playback to work well on my KT133a based mobo. I finally gave up on trying to get my iPod to sync via the Audigy and got a 3 port Belkin card barebones online. Haven't had a single problem since =)
You remember wrong, AAC came in second to LAST in the C't reviews at 128kbps. It doesn't even really matter though because if you are worried about quality and have an iPod you will rip with lame at -extreme VBR settings, averages around 200-220kbps across most genres of music (I have classical, jazz, techno, hiphop and rock in my collection) and is indistinguishable from the source using a high quality DAC and Sennheiser heaphones, so definitly nothing thats going to be noticed with the iPod =)
My dad has 8mm tape of his father growing up, so about 70+ years old. We also have photos from my great grandmother that are over 100 years old. Celluid and silver halide prints are pretty damn good for archival purposes, something that none of the modern formats can really claim. Maybe having the VHS tapes transfered to some type of film might be a good solution.
Actually I'm a sys admin for a consultancy who will be an engineer in a year. Bottom of the barrel, hardly. My last position was as a level 3 tech and part time sys admin for a fortune 10 company.
I don't have anything against seeing movies (boycotting the whole movie industry is pointless, there just aren't enough people who care), but there is no way that I would pay $18.74 plus S&H for a DVD of shorts that are available for free online.
hmm, the MCSE bashing really isn't needed or true. I'm an MCSE and CCNA that is working towards his RHCE and has already done several years of linux support both from a desktop and a server role in an enterprise environment. Sure there are people out there who don't deserve the cert, but just because you have it doesn't mean you are a clueless MS drone. But I can tell you that there are FAR fewer people out there with the skills to support linux on the desktop. I have met literaly over one hundred techs in the last couple years and of those maybe 10% could effectivly support linux. That limits you to a much smaller support pool and those that can support linux are typically in the top % of the bracket as far as talent and price.
Actually as of Windows Server 2003 and IIS5 IIS can (and does as default on 2003) run as an unprivilidged account. Also no executable addons are enabled by default (in fact IIS isn't even installed by default, what a nice change!). It may take time but MS is moving towards more sane defaults. In fact the other great evil in the MS world, Outlook has sane defaults with Outlook XP. It will take time before the installed base moves to these newer offerings but that can hardly be blamed on MS. Redhat for years took deserved flak for shipping with tons of services enabled that very few users needed, they finally wised up but it took a long time and a lot of customer concern to reach that goal. And finally ACL's are FAR superior to tradition style Unix permissions for locking down the box, if you want to go command line in windows use the resource kit, they have security auditing tools and command line ACL viewers.
Actually ghost is ok if all your hardware is identical, otherwise there are better solutions that will bootstrap a machine from a netboot to a full windows install with drivers and apps in a couple hours unattended. We also used RH custom kickstart disks and from a tech's perspective it was virtually identical, insert disk, wait, remove disk, walk away. Sure work has to be put into both to setup the installer app, but from what I could tell the two groups were roughly equivilant in size and so should have been able to accomplish roughly the same amount of support work. The liscensing costs for the windows boxes though were through the roof, office, utility apps like winzip, etc whereas we had the cost for redhat and ximian connector, a fraction of the cost. Support costs were lower too, in fact I would say that linux had about 1/3rd the support calls per machine.
Is a newspaper responsible for people not in their employ like say a writer to the OP/ED section? And if so is a simple retraction suffecient to settle the libel claims?
I like their stance on libraries. It makes a lot of sense to link to a private version of the libraries if your goal is stability. Sure it increases disk use some (nothing compared to the output of a multitracker though) and memory use some (again nothing compared to having buffers for multiple high quality PCM streams in ram). This is similar to the way XP and even moreso longhorn are going for criticial libraries, if the version is different from the system default then it gets placed either in a subdirectory under the application or in a special subdirectory of the system library location and called up when the associated program calls the library. This means that none of your core apps or the OS itself get hosed by and update and the other programs behave well because they get the library version they expect.
Common sense prevails? Since eBay did not make the libelous statements why should they be held responsible.
I know up until very recently DieBold was a big user of OS/2. What would you rather have running your ATM, Windows or OS/2? As to why they haven't picked up free software, I'm not really sure.
The problem is to do actual work you need to go back to electronics (not all the relevant parts exist for optical circuits to act as semiconductor parts) so you need an optoelectric transition and the parts for this are still slower then just pushing the signal across the die. If we could do all the necessary processing without crossing domains then bandwidth would increase tremendously as then all optical switches would become a reality =)
Yes, perhaps something like Windows XP's system restore. You could have all system changes done through a central controll panel where the previous N generations of files were maintained in a timestamped depository. Then if something goes wrong you can boot to a panic disk and restore to a previous dates settings. Combine this with data backup and optional data rollback and you would have a truely nice addition to the Unix as a desktop experience(TM).
In a home system the users home directory is MORE important than the system files. How many people give a flying f' if they have to reinstall the OS?? Most won't if it's fairly easy, they WILL care if their financial spreadsheet or other important doc is deleted, and that is the much harder problem to solve. This is not a distro targeted at servers or multiuser workstations, it is a distro for single user home pc's, if they trash their home dir they are probably going to reinstall anyways, so why add the extra hassle.
He's a CEO, not a coder. Like the article says he didn't run it past PR or legal, so a technical miswording is forgiveable.
Umm, a properly built wireless network can basically scale infinitly. Microsoft has a wireless network at the Redmond campus where they have literally tens of thousands of people on a network in a fairly small area. The only major problem they have had is trying to do streaming video to an entire lecture hall sized room over .11b. Most broadcast traffic isn't actually passed in a well designed network anyways (especially one used by the public rather than inside a company).
It's not that it's ok, it's that it is easier to reinstall the OS ocassionally then it is to do an effective job as a sys admin. There is a reason that sys admins make good money, it is a fairly difficult job to stay on top of with a very large knowledge domain. Desktop/home users don't WANT to be sys admins, they just want to log in, have their computer work, and get their tasks finished. They will willingly give up the frustration of sys admining in exchange for occassional problems, its less of a hassle for them. Just because you set up a multiuser environment for someone doesn't mean it can be done effectivly at a commercial level when selling to the general public.
Actually there are two types of journals, data journals and metadata journals. A data journal works as described but has a heavy impact on performance because all writes must be made twice. Metadata journals such as those used by NTFS and ext3 by default insure filesystem integrity but do nothing to ensure data integrity.