Well with all the issues in Leapard (probably explained here by the inclusion of any thing windows), this is really news to make me dump the upgrade.
Who is the stupid bone head who would ever include direct windows compatibility code in OSX. There is absolutely no reason on the planet to ever include any compatibility for Windows in OSX. Preaching to the choir but the security sucks, there are more bugs than words in Websters, and over all its a pain to use.
What I loved is the paint ball gun funded by the LA Co. Sheriff's Dept. The balls contained a noxious substance that made the target immediately start to puke after they were hit.
Probably just as effective as laughing gas but a lot nastier to clean up.
I switched to singular after 7 years with Verizon in my area. Over the past 3 year my verizon service had continually degraded. Dropouts, calls that never rang, noisy connections, phones that just wouldn't work you name it I had it. (central NC)
I switched to cingular and have better than land line service!!! You might say towers, but both companies have towers with 1 mile of my home.
While I never had to use tech support for verizon, I did have some problems with my blackberry setup and the cingular tech support there was great.
Overall, I now have better service over a wider area than I ever had with verizon.
The japan units only shipped with composite rc cables not component video.
Last I checked composite can only play 480p or 480i.
I would assume that the US units shipped with the same thing. Has anyone tried this with a true HD cable?
Try going to you the Options and turning off Java. Again RTFM, this is a known issue for Athlon-64 systems using OOo.
I start in about 5 seconds from my 64 bit notebook.
I have to echo much of this. I just finished 7 years as a network administrator, systems administrator, web developer and technology director for a community college.
While all the good things are there (benefits, work hours, stability and security), there were considerable downsides. Education pay is for shit! I just switched back to industry doing exactly the same thing at 25% pay increase. Second, there is no such thing as "cutting edge technology" in education. I brought Linux into a Novell only house in 1997. While it was a great success and saved the school tons of money, it was never truely accepted and I was perpetually the bastard step father to the other it folks.
Education is all politics, you can save the school money, make it grow, and create fantastic things with new technology, but you will always be punished for it at every turn in education. All because you actually achieved something and made a difference. As a group, educators are elitst, self-serving, hypocrits that spout how they want to change the world. Problem is, their response to a successful colleague is to depricate them out of existance.
Lastly, you have to remember one thing, the only reason these people are full-time faculty is because they are too lazy to compete for a real job. Become faculty, become lazy, cease to matter.
I've had a similar problem and I'm using a shuttleX as but the fan noise of 4 computers in my office is about to drive me crazy.
you may want to take a look at www.littlepc.com these guys have some interesting low voltage, and fanless systems that could serve the basis a good home server system.
This is just another reason to make it a one way mission and just colonize the place.
A) If there is alien life on Mars, the dumbest thing to do is bring it back to Earth. Until we've cured all infectious disease on this planet, why bring back something from another for which there is no cure. It may not be as EASY as the Andromeda Strain.
B) If you're going to go, a round trip will only double the exposure to cosmic rays. Go once, go well and be first to land and die on mars. Remember you get to keep what you kill ( or is vice versa...)
C) Use older astronauts. These guys are going to die sooner anyhow. Let them go out with glory (not a blaze) as the founders of a colony and explorers.
Personally, I'd rather die of cancer on Mars as an explorer than a geriatric patient in Boca Raton.
only one database available in linux... so the switch to a MS mono culture of SQL
php code problem required platform shift.... As though ASP didn't have enough limitations without programers!!
How much does eWeek get paid by MS to write this kind of crap!!!.
Bottom line, Linux saves my department more than $100,000 per year (avg earnings $1mil for dept). If we switched from linux to windows, I'd have to add two more people, and 4 more servers. My profit margin would drop from 80% to 50%.
Am I going to switch to Windows? Only when they pry the keyboard out of my cold dead hands. Let profit rule, not Bill Gates.
I think the actual culprit is GRUB. I've had trouble with that little lowlife boot loader ever since redhat decided to drop LILO for this superiour piece of crap!
After 7 years of linux, I still use what works best on all my machines and servers. LILO
I'm not a great fan of wine either. I did actually beta test the linux version of Deneba Canvas for linux several years ago.
They used the winelibs in their native port of the app. I was very disappointed when they phased out the program because of problems support the various desktop environments.
It was a great port, that I certainly would have paid money for. I'll do that for all of the MX tools if macromedia comes through.
This goes back to windows 3.1. I guess the most widely used utility of the time that made use of the technology was HP's Dashboard product circa 1992. This product pretty much set the standard for how Virtual desktops would be used and visualized. I know all current VD's work as similar if not identical manner to the Dashboard tool.
That was also found out for x86 when OS/2 and Win95 (to a lesser extent because of its heavy reliance on 16 bit code in certain places) back in '92/93.
I can still feel the pain from the flame wars. If memory serves it all came down to an issue of compliler and library optimization. Most of the 32 bit code was unoptimized for various reasons which caused wide variances in performance.
The only reason RedHat would say that Linux is not ready for the desktop is because they haven't been able to accomplish it yet.
Their infrastracture can hardly bear the load of their enterprise clients. If they actually sold a desktop product with good support, it would crash their support network like a stone.
Besides who wants to run a desktop that is more than a year behind the times as soon as its released. Fedora hasn't changed any of that, they're just setting it up so that someone else does the work for them.
RedHat will never be able to compete with Novell and Suse desktop, server or otherwise. Why would anyone pay $350 per server each year. You might as well run Windows. Sadly, Redhat no longer brings anything to the table that's not offered by any other linux packager. Why pay when you can get the same, for free.
B-
Well bash/ch are one thing. What about packaging? Has anyone tried to mix non-redhat rpms with and RH 8.0 install.
If they keep acquisitioning other's technology soon you won't RH distribution but a collection RH'ized packages that only work the RH way. Sounds alot like Redmond speak to me.
Take a look at this list: Each was once a free independent platform. Now they each have some many minor interdependencies that you can't install one without the other.
RH Desktop
RH Database
RH Shell
RH PHP
RH RPM (yea they own this one but now it won't work with anyone else)
RH Media
RH XFree86
RH Python
I'm an RCHE and have used RH for 4 years straight on dozens of servers. The last 1.5 years have been scary because I've seen good tech get gradually mediocritized to RH standards.
Quite frankly upgrading to 7.1-8.0 has required that I DOWNGRADE my system's functionality not enhance it. While I have 8.0 on a test machine and a laptop, I have serious misgivings about ever moving any of my servers to RH 8.X
We need to set up server in some country that is not subject to MS or US legal control(since MS obviously owns the US govt.)
Then disclose every MS Security Bug along with the exploits and tools to make use of them. If Billy Gates wants war then lets give it to him. Hack everything, everyday on every MS server, product and os. Make sure that everything gets shutdown or so corrupted that nothing functions.
But of course in AmeriKa that is now terrorism so be careful or a 1kt bomb will fall on your head.
Freedom requires all so I've got an unhackable copy of FreeBSD I'll donate to the project. Anyone else ready to pony up and bring the Billy Gates and MS down?
KDE is way to buggy for production work. It always has been. If first used it in 1998 and it was dog then, its a dog in 2.2.2 and its dog still in 3.0.
I get 2-300% more problems with KDE than gnome.
KDE looks slick, but its slow, clunky and buggy.
I don't think anyone should base an evaluation of what's wrong with linux based upon it as the user environment
The Problem isn't the package manager
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The problem here isn't the package manager. RPM, apt, deb all have their quirks. The problem is the laziness of software developers. And I do say laziness, because they release packages for their projects, but hardly ever distribute or even link to projects for which their work is dependent.
Also there is a problem with cross project dependencies. If you're going to release your project in a package manager volume, then all the libraries that you depend upon must also be available is some form of package (not tar.gz or tgz:))
The rule to follow here is that all software should be released as packaged software, never as tar balls. That alone would solve over 95% of all software installation problems.
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Re:Instability with the preempt patch?
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Preempt patch hmmm.
I haven't ever seen any use to this patch. The only thing that I've ever seen it do once applied is make system performance choppy on the user end. I have better response times without it on a workstation than with.
BA & MA in Anthropology, I was a working field Archaeologist for 15 years.....
Four years ago I moved over into education and the next thing I know I'm working with distance education....
I currently have 5 servers and growing.
I did have a lot of trouble with the other CS people until I took the RedHat exam. Turns out that none of them were certified in anything. What a hoot!!!
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Well you know I guess I should have placed a disclaimer that only technical advice was needed. Its been fun.
Well with all the issues in Leapard (probably explained here by the inclusion of any thing windows), this is really news to make me dump the upgrade.
Who is the stupid bone head who would ever include direct windows compatibility code in OSX. There is absolutely no reason on the planet to ever include any compatibility for Windows in OSX. Preaching to the choir but the security sucks, there are more bugs than words in Websters, and over all its a pain to use.
Stupid, Stupid, Stupid..........
What I loved is the paint ball gun funded by the LA Co. Sheriff's Dept. The balls contained a noxious substance that made the target immediately start to puke after they were hit.
Probably just as effective as laughing gas but a lot nastier to clean up.
I switched to singular after 7 years with Verizon in my area. Over the past 3 year my verizon service had continually degraded. Dropouts, calls that never rang, noisy connections, phones that just wouldn't work you name it I had it. (central NC)
I switched to cingular and have better than land line service!!! You might say towers, but both companies have towers with 1 mile of my home.
While I never had to use tech support for verizon, I did have some problems with my blackberry setup and the cingular tech support there was great.
Overall, I now have better service over a wider area than I ever had with verizon.
jd
The japan units only shipped with composite rc cables not component video.
Last I checked composite can only play 480p or 480i. I would assume that the US units shipped with the same thing. Has anyone tried this with a true HD cable?
Try going to you the Options and turning off Java. Again RTFM, this is a known issue for Athlon-64 systems using OOo. I start in about 5 seconds from my 64 bit notebook.
I have to echo much of this. I just finished 7 years as a network administrator, systems administrator, web developer and technology director for a community college.
While all the good things are there (benefits, work hours, stability and security), there were considerable downsides. Education pay is for shit! I just switched back to industry doing exactly the same thing at 25% pay increase. Second, there is no such thing as "cutting edge technology" in education. I brought Linux into a Novell only house in 1997. While it was a great success and saved the school tons of money, it was never truely accepted and I was perpetually the bastard step father to the other it folks.
Education is all politics, you can save the school money, make it grow, and create fantastic things with new technology, but you will always be punished for it at every turn in education. All because you actually achieved something and made a difference. As a group, educators are elitst, self-serving, hypocrits that spout how they want to change the world. Problem is, their response to a successful colleague is to depricate them out of existance.
Lastly, you have to remember one thing, the only reason these people are full-time faculty is because they are too lazy to compete for a real job. Become faculty, become lazy, cease to matter.
B
I've had a similar problem and I'm using a shuttleX as but the fan noise of 4 computers in my office is about to drive me crazy.
you may want to take a look at www.littlepc.com these guys have some interesting low voltage, and fanless systems that could serve the basis a good home server system.
This is just another reason to make it a one way mission and just colonize the place. A) If there is alien life on Mars, the dumbest thing to do is bring it back to Earth. Until we've cured all infectious disease on this planet, why bring back something from another for which there is no cure. It may not be as EASY as the Andromeda Strain. B) If you're going to go, a round trip will only double the exposure to cosmic rays. Go once, go well and be first to land and die on mars. Remember you get to keep what you kill ( or is vice versa...) C) Use older astronauts. These guys are going to die sooner anyhow. Let them go out with glory (not a blaze) as the founders of a colony and explorers. Personally, I'd rather die of cancer on Mars as an explorer than a geriatric patient in Boca Raton.
only one database available in linux... so the switch to a MS mono culture of SQL php code problem required platform shift.... As though ASP didn't have enough limitations without programers!! How much does eWeek get paid by MS to write this kind of crap!!!. Bottom line, Linux saves my department more than $100,000 per year (avg earnings $1mil for dept). If we switched from linux to windows, I'd have to add two more people, and 4 more servers. My profit margin would drop from 80% to 50%. Am I going to switch to Windows? Only when they pry the keyboard out of my cold dead hands. Let profit rule, not Bill Gates.
I think the actual culprit is GRUB. I've had trouble with that little lowlife boot loader ever since redhat decided to drop LILO for this superiour piece of crap! After 7 years of linux, I still use what works best on all my machines and servers. LILO
I'm not a great fan of wine either. I did actually beta test the linux version of Deneba Canvas for linux several years ago.
They used the winelibs in their native port of the app. I was very disappointed when they phased out the program because of problems support the various desktop environments.
It was a great port, that I certainly would have paid money for. I'll do that for all of the MX tools if macromedia comes through.
I can finally get rid of my residual mac and windows machines and just use Linux.
This is the best news since the release of birth control pills!!
This goes back to windows 3.1. I guess the most widely used utility of the time that made use of the technology was HP's Dashboard product circa 1992. This product pretty much set the standard for how Virtual desktops would be used and visualized. I know all current VD's work as similar if not identical manner to the Dashboard tool.
That was also found out for x86 when OS/2 and Win95 (to a lesser extent because of its heavy reliance on 16 bit code in certain places) back in '92/93.
I can still feel the pain from the flame wars. If memory serves it all came down to an issue of compliler and library optimization. Most of the 32 bit code was unoptimized for various reasons which caused wide variances in performance.
The only reason RedHat would say that Linux is not ready for the desktop is because they haven't been able to accomplish it yet. Their infrastracture can hardly bear the load of their enterprise clients. If they actually sold a desktop product with good support, it would crash their support network like a stone. Besides who wants to run a desktop that is more than a year behind the times as soon as its released. Fedora hasn't changed any of that, they're just setting it up so that someone else does the work for them. RedHat will never be able to compete with Novell and Suse desktop, server or otherwise. Why would anyone pay $350 per server each year. You might as well run Windows. Sadly, Redhat no longer brings anything to the table that's not offered by any other linux packager. Why pay when you can get the same, for free. B-
Well bash /ch are one thing. What about packaging? Has anyone tried to mix non-redhat rpms with and RH 8.0 install.
If they keep acquisitioning other's technology soon you won't RH distribution but a collection RH'ized packages that only work the RH way. Sounds alot like Redmond speak to me.
Take a look at this list: Each was once a free independent platform. Now they each have some many minor interdependencies that you can't install one without the other.
RH Desktop
RH Database
RH Shell
RH PHP
RH RPM (yea they own this one but now it won't work with anyone else)
RH Media
RH XFree86
RH Python
I'm an RCHE and have used RH for 4 years straight on dozens of servers. The last 1.5 years have been scary because I've seen good tech get gradually mediocritized to RH standards.
Quite frankly upgrading to 7.1-8.0 has required that I DOWNGRADE my system's functionality not enhance it. While I have 8.0 on a test machine and a laptop, I have serious misgivings about ever moving any of my servers to RH 8.X
Obviously a windows fan.
We need to set up server in some country that is not subject to MS or US legal control(since MS obviously owns the US govt.) Then disclose every MS Security Bug along with the exploits and tools to make use of them. If Billy Gates wants war then lets give it to him. Hack everything, everyday on every MS server, product and os. Make sure that everything gets shutdown or so corrupted that nothing functions. But of course in AmeriKa that is now terrorism so be careful or a 1kt bomb will fall on your head. Freedom requires all so I've got an unhackable copy of FreeBSD I'll donate to the project. Anyone else ready to pony up and bring the Billy Gates and MS down?
KDE is way to buggy for production work. It always has been. If first used it in 1998 and it was dog then, its a dog in 2.2.2 and its dog still in 3.0. I get 2-300% more problems with KDE than gnome. KDE looks slick, but its slow, clunky and buggy. I don't think anyone should base an evaluation of what's wrong with linux based upon it as the user environment
The problem here isn't the package manager. RPM, apt, deb all have their quirks. The problem is the laziness of software developers. And I do say laziness, because they release packages for their projects, but hardly ever distribute or even link to projects for which their work is dependent. Also there is a problem with cross project dependencies. If you're going to release your project in a package manager volume, then all the libraries that you depend upon must also be available is some form of package (not tar.gz or tgz :))
The rule to follow here is that all software should be released as packaged software, never as tar balls. That alone would solve over 95% of all software installation problems.
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May we all live and die by the eternal flame
BeeazleBub
Preempt patch hmmm.
I haven't ever seen any use to this patch. The only thing that I've ever seen it do once applied is make system performance choppy on the user end. I have better response times without it on a workstation than with.
BA & MA in Anthropology, I was a working field Archaeologist for 15 years..... Four years ago I moved over into education and the next thing I know I'm working with distance education.... I currently have 5 servers and growing. I did have a lot of trouble with the other CS people until I took the RedHat exam. Turns out that none of them were certified in anything. What a hoot!!!