The whole point of the DB file system is to easily search for files in a massive HD. The files you'd likely need to search for are not data used by games or applications but your own media.
such as text/ mp3s / pics/vids.. yadaa.
Thus, forcing all file xactions to take place through a database wouldn't be useful all the time.
You pretty much want something along the lines of what windows media player "Media library" does with your music and videos.
You build a database when you're not using the computer.. and you load the "explorer/searcher" program when you need to find something.
This in-between shit is no good. And their price point is too high. for 1500 I can build myself a kickass gaming PC that's double the performance of that one. Sure it'll be an ugly tower, but christ.. I can still HIDE a tower.
All it took was a brief scan of Ethan's blog to remind me why I hate almost all "social commentary" blogs so much.
a) Mostly just some guy tooting his own horn, beating off to the fact that people read his dinky website.
b) It's boring... omg it's soo boring.
c) I (href link) don't(href link) like (href link) links (href link) embedded EVERYWHERE (href link) in a god damn paragraph I'm (href link) trying to read. Especially when they make a word like "zuchini" a link.. fuck!
Oh, and people who are going through genocide have better things to do than blog about their woes simply to entertain us western folks.
I mean it will restrict port 80 as an open server to others if he asks to run a webserver. Stateful packet inspection doesn't apply in that case, and it isn't fair to the other users.
Since when have law makers restricted use of information and technology in order to avoid inconveniencing the end users?
Get it through your head that laws aren't made to protect individuals anymore, they are made to protect corperations from consumers.
You think showing that P2P can help valid releases get distributed is going to make a difference? The shareholders don't give a rats ass about taking away peoples rights. Shit I really wanted to avoid going on a rant.
Unless they have a separat NAT server that translates a unique IP to each 10.x.x.x they give each customer you're going to find quite a few things seriously difficult.
Most apps including some p2p and games should be ok. But you can forget running a server. You can't even ask your ISP to open certain ports to you (incoming I mean) because then they'll be taking that option away from other customers. Like if they redirect port 21 to you, that means all other customers wouldn't be able to ask for port 21. I jsut don't see that working.
But, as long as you aren't running a server, most modern apps and games work fine behind a nat.
Exept for MSN messenger of course, what a peice of garbage. Chat works out, but you can forget about voice / video and file xfers.
I had dabbled in C# about two years ago, mainly because creating windows gui clients with Windows.Forms was a godsend. Plus the gui creating tools in the MS Devel studio was awesome. Makes Java Swing look like a toy.
Question being: I know there is some kind of meld with GTK and mono or dot gnu (not sure which), is it seamless with Windows.Forms classes? Will my Windows.Forms classes compile and run in mono in Xwindows.. as is?
You had me at "the decoupling of the front-end's fetching and decoding functions from the back-end's execution function, by means of an instruction window."
It would be really nice if all of these 5cd linux distros agreed to make sure a "minimum" but useful install can be had if one were to only download the first bootable CD.
I'm not interested in downloading every single linux app that was ever conceived. Christ... look at knoppix! Pretty much has everything I need, on one CD. If I were to install linux for the purpose of being a production server, i'd be sure to download and compile everything from source anyways.
They tell me everything but explicitly how it spreads!!
YesI know it opens a backdoor on port 1234, I know all about what it does, and I know I need to update my virus scanner here.
How the fuck do I prevent getting it? Is it a vulnerability in Outlook specifically? or is it truely something in WinXP/2k like the virus definition page suggests. Do I have to execute the attachement to catch it, or as soon as outlook opens the email I have the virus?
Fucking BS virus defn pages don't seem to want to tell us how to prevent getting the virus... only how to remove it.
I've been a system admin for a production webserver for a few years now, and I can tell you this.
99.9% of the time when I've had to retreive data from backup, it was because of human error. I.E. someone deleted something they shouldn't have, or the moved the wrong directory to the wrong place, or an error was made during a software upgrade, etc..
the rest is due to random harware failure which would be a reason for using RAID. But pouring thousands into redundant servers and disks, is overkill for a biz your size.
If someone accidently wipes out a folder or data, your raid disks won't be any help.
Lets say Dell actually started funding video game development. IT would be a friggin disaster.
They would force they programmers to ensure that new games don't run on old hardware, so DELL could bundle crap, and cram $4000 dollar PCs down peoples throats who are intested in playing the awesome new game.
Don't upgrade for a game until the game comes out. That way you don't find that you
a) put waay too much money into an overkill system, considering you'll find out on newsgroups that people are getting acceptable framerates at full detail on cheaper computers.
b) end up spending money upgrading.. and it turns out the GFX card you got isn't good enough, etc..
In the city I live in (Montreal), there is amazing public transportation. It would be a blatant waste of cash to park your car for $80/month downtown.. plus god knows how much in gas.
Obviously the response is "Waaaa waaaaa" in the city I live in... I'm too far off from dowtown and public transit blows.
Well.. there people that pick the places they live in with transportation in mind. You can't expect society to bend to your will, because you need to subbornly live where you live.
If I suddently got a job opportunity in Austin Texas (I'm a software devel), the first thing I would be asking is how much are they paying me, and is there a good transit system to get me to work.. or a car pool.. or something.
You can kiss your $10 raise goodbye otherwise.
Basically I'm saying.. move to a better place, heck you might even make some money in real estate in the process:) The more people are interested in ditching their cars, the sooner cities will be forced to upgrade their public transit systems.
Which she mentioned at one point. The thing is just a programmable humanoid like machine with various movement capabilities, and sound effects.
Not an ounce of A.I. in it as far as I can tell.
How is this any more "Advanced" than a remote controlled racecar... with pre programmable routes to drive.
I love how we seem to have the need to hypothesise about the "inevitable" future advancements of our species that will supposedly change our way of life... but you look at how far we come and we still see people in hospitals being mended like garments, and cut open like cattle. Can't even cure some basic shit that's been around for ages.
I'd say we are becoming a society of "dreamers"... oops that last statement was troll worthy wasn't?
how about this: why is it that the hubble telescope is losing funding, but say... war budget is increased?
Maybe it is because people who run our civilization really aren't interested in technological advance. They are interested in money, power, shareholders. The best AI your going to see is to make money on quake 4.
Now that you've BROADCASTED your goal for a private connection between iraq / States, you have pretty much screwed yourself.
Homeland security is tapping your phonelines as I type:)
OR... if you work for homeland security, man were you a waste of budget if you can't set up a VPN.
Anyways now that the rant is over... your best option is too use some kind of satellite based internet connection. Or a cellmodem which has reliable connectivity in iraq, but dials into a long distance number to an ISP that works... of course if the long distance charges are super high, you might as well have him dial directly into a phone line/modem at your location and you don't need to use the internet at all. It really depends on what you want to use the connection for, but I have to assume dialup is no good.. as you need all three to be dedicated.
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The whole point of the DB file system is to easily search for files in a massive HD. The files you'd likely need to search for are not data used by games or applications but your own media.
/vids.. yadaa.
such as text/ mp3s / pics
Thus, forcing all file xactions to take place through a database wouldn't be useful all the time.
You pretty much want something along the lines of what windows media player "Media library" does with your music and videos.
You build a database when you're not using the computer.. and you load the "explorer/searcher" program when you need to find something.
calling it a new filesystem seems a lil much.
either create a gaming PC, or a media/office/ PC.
This in-between shit is no good. And their price point is too high. for 1500 I can build myself a kickass gaming PC that's double the performance of that one. Sure it'll be an ugly tower, but christ.. I can still HIDE a tower.
Sorta seems like the same thing to me.
Can I have a 64bit OS too please? (no not linux)
All it took was a brief scan of Ethan's blog to remind me why I hate almost all "social commentary" blogs so much.
a) Mostly just some guy tooting his own horn, beating off to the fact that people read his dinky website.
b) It's boring... omg it's soo boring.
c) I (href link) don't(href link) like (href link) links (href link) embedded EVERYWHERE (href link) in a god damn paragraph I'm (href link) trying to read. Especially when they make a word like "zuchini" a link.. fuck!
Oh, and people who are going through genocide have better things to do than blog about their woes simply to entertain us western folks.
Love,
Zaq
I love how a nice news post gets completely ruined by a stupid generalization at the end.
CRTs are still far more accurate and responsive than LCDs. A lot of people out there still prefer CRTs hands down to LCDs.
Love,
ZAq
Yes. That's what NATs do.
I mean it will restrict port 80 as an open server to others if he asks to run a webserver. Stateful packet inspection doesn't apply in that case, and it isn't fair to the other users.
No it won't affect websurfing.
Since when have law makers restricted use of information and technology in order to avoid inconveniencing the end users?
Get it through your head that laws aren't made to protect individuals anymore, they are made to protect corperations from consumers.
You think showing that P2P can help valid releases get distributed is going to make a difference? The shareholders don't give a rats ass about taking away peoples rights.
Shit I really wanted to avoid going on a rant.
Love,
Zaq
Unless they have a separat NAT server that translates a unique IP to each 10.x.x.x they give each customer you're going to find quite a few things seriously difficult.
Most apps including some p2p and games should be ok. But you can forget running a server. You can't even ask your ISP to open certain ports to you (incoming I mean) because then they'll be taking that option away from other customers. Like if they redirect port 21 to you, that means all other customers wouldn't be able to ask for port 21. I jsut don't see that working.
But, as long as you aren't running a server, most modern apps and games work fine behind a nat.
Exept for MSN messenger of course, what a peice of garbage. Chat works out, but you can forget about voice / video and file xfers.
Love,
ZAq
I figured Sun would have laid off their entire R&D department by now :)
Love,
Zaq
What about regular coax? what would the resolution be for that?
I had dabbled in C# about two years ago, mainly because creating windows gui clients with Windows.Forms was a godsend. Plus the gui creating tools in the MS Devel studio was awesome. Makes Java Swing look like a toy.
,
Question being: I know there is some kind of meld with GTK and mono or dot gnu (not sure which), is it seamless with Windows.Forms classes? Will my Windows.Forms classes compile and run in mono in Xwindows.. as is?
Love
Zaq
You had me at "the decoupling of the front-end's fetching and decoding functions from the back-end's execution function, by means of an instruction window."
It would be really nice if all of these 5cd linux distros agreed to make sure a "minimum" but useful install can be had if one were to only download the first bootable CD.
I'm not interested in downloading every single linux app that was ever conceived. Christ... look at knoppix! Pretty much has everything I need, on one CD. If I were to install linux for the purpose of being a production server, i'd be sure to download and compile everything from source anyways.
Love,
Zaq
They tell me everything but explicitly how it spreads!!
YesI know it opens a backdoor on port 1234, I know all about what it does, and I know I need to update my virus scanner here.
How the fuck do I prevent getting it? Is it a vulnerability in Outlook specifically? or is it truely something in WinXP/2k like the virus definition page suggests. Do I have to execute the attachement to catch it, or as soon as outlook opens the email I have the virus?
Fucking BS virus defn pages don't seem to want to tell us how to prevent getting the virus... only how to remove it.
Love,
Zaq
I've been a system admin for a production webserver for a few years now, and I can tell you this.
99.9% of the time when I've had to retreive data from backup, it was because of human error. I.E. someone deleted something they shouldn't have, or the moved the wrong directory to the wrong place, or an error was made during a software upgrade, etc..
the rest is due to random harware failure which would be a reason for using RAID. But pouring thousands into redundant servers and disks, is overkill for a biz your size.
If someone accidently wipes out a folder or data, your raid disks won't be any help.
Love,
Zaq
Lets say Dell actually started funding video game development. IT would be a friggin disaster.
They would force they programmers to ensure that new games don't run on old hardware, so DELL could bundle crap, and cram $4000 dollar PCs down peoples throats who are intested in playing the awesome new game.
Pretty much what MS did with Halo.
You're not too bright are you?
Don't upgrade for a game until the game comes out.
That way you don't find that you
a) put waay too much money into an overkill system, considering you'll find out on newsgroups that people are getting acceptable framerates at full detail on cheaper computers.
b) end up spending money upgrading.. and it turns out the GFX card you got isn't good enough, etc..
I thought personal vault just stores all your account info? I can't encrypt files can it?
or do you encrypt the files with something else, and use personal vault to store the password to unlock the files in this other program?
You can't have the best of both worlds.
... I'm too far off from dowtown and public transit blows.
:) The more people are interested in ditching their cars, the sooner cities will be forced to upgrade their public transit systems.
In the city I live in (Montreal), there is amazing public transportation. It would be a blatant waste of cash to park your car for $80/month downtown.. plus god knows how much in gas.
Obviously the response is "Waaaa waaaaa" in the city I live in
Well.. there people that pick the places they live in with transportation in mind. You can't expect society to bend to your will, because you need to subbornly live where you live.
If I suddently got a job opportunity in Austin Texas (I'm a software devel), the first thing I would be asking is how much are they paying me, and is there a good transit system to get me to work.. or a car pool.. or something.
You can kiss your $10 raise goodbye otherwise.
Basically I'm saying.. move to a better place, heck you might even make some money in real estate in the process
Love, Zaq
Which she mentioned at one point. The thing is just a programmable humanoid like machine with various movement capabilities, and sound effects.
Not an ounce of A.I. in it as far as I can tell.
How is this any more "Advanced" than a remote controlled racecar... with pre programmable routes to drive.
I love how we seem to have the need to hypothesise about the "inevitable" future advancements of our species that will supposedly change our way of life... but you look at how far we come and we still see people in hospitals being mended like garments, and cut open like cattle. Can't even cure some basic shit that's been around for ages.
I'd say we are becoming a society of "dreamers"... oops that last statement was troll worthy wasn't?
how about this: why is it that the hubble telescope is losing funding, but say... war budget is increased?
Maybe it is because people who run our civilization really aren't interested in technological advance. They are interested in money, power, shareholders. The best AI your going to see is to make money on quake 4.
Uuhh... I think you're on the wrong website.
AMIGO.
How am I nasty? you have a particular attachement to overpopulated polluted poor countries?
India is the most densly populated country in the world.
I'd rather stick to canada, lose my programming job and raise cattle than live in that digusting pile of feces country.
fucking polluted to the max.
Now that you've BROADCASTED your goal for a private connection between iraq / States, you have pretty much screwed yourself.
:)
Homeland security is tapping your phonelines as I type
OR... if you work for homeland security, man were you a waste of budget if you can't set up a VPN.
Anyways now that the rant is over... your best option is too use some kind of satellite based internet connection. Or a cellmodem which has reliable connectivity in iraq, but dials into a long distance number to an ISP that works... of course if the long distance charges are super high, you might as well have him dial directly into a phone line/modem at your location and you don't need to use the internet at all. It really depends on what you want to use the connection for, but I have to assume dialup is no good.. as you need all three to be dedicated.