Hey! At least the guy you spoke to on the phone is probably smart enough to go and buy a $1.99 splitter for the hard drive instead of doing a half-assed splice job.
You're the kind of fella that makes tech support difficult. Just smart emough to figure out how to fuck things up.
After reading many of the threads in this article, I have realized once again that most of you people are nitwits.
I have read speculation posted as fact. I have read people say "Why don't they do this....?" when they already do. I have read the ridiculous rantings of anti-MS zealots who have no friggin clue what they are talking about. I have read the stupid opinions agreeing with the aformentioned clueless zealots.
I remember when Slashdot was a fun and informative place to hangout. Now it seems to be dominated by nitwits.
Quit your fucking whining, jackass. This is why you have no friends. You take things way too seriously. Nobody likes you, so just go masturbate in your moms underwear drawer the way you always do.
I really cannot agree with you on the reliabilty of SCSI HDs Vs. IDE HDs. Not too long ago I worked for a company in MN who used SCSI and IDE. The thing is that there were about 20 or so IDE drives to every 1 SCSI drive, but the dead drives box had three times as many dead SCSI drives in it than IDE.
At home, I have never had a IDE drive die on me, but I have had all 3 SCSI drives that I have used in my personal machines die.
With XP, this model is trying to be changed, so not only do you have to keep paying to use XP, but you can think of it as an additional cost to playing your games.
How exactly am I going to have to keep paying to use XP? I may have to pay to play certain online games on XP, but the same would be true if I were playing those games on 98, ME or even linux (if the programmers ported that way.
I ran a 4 node BBS using Vbbs under DesqView. I remember the agony I went trhough trying to create rip graphics for it. I finally canned 'em all and cocenrtated on the ascii. Man, those were the days. Back then we were GODS my friends.
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Sure the chip can be used for things other than playing copied games, but that is NOT what it was designed for. (This is easily tested. See how many of these chips sell with that feature disabled.)
The reason the chips allow playing copied games is the very same reason the chips allow region unlocking for DVDs. You cannot disable the feature that allows playing backups while leaving the DVD region unlocking feature enabled. The two features are one and the same.
Abit sucks ass though, they try to push things too far and forget that a super-overclocked machine that hangs every hour isn't worth shit.
How does Abit try to overclock? How does Abit push too for? Just because they provide you with the means to push your CPU past its ability, doesn't mean you have to do it. It's your fault if your CPU is overclocked to a point that it becomes unstable.
Abit has never let me down. 4 out of 5 machines I am currently running at home use Abit Mobos. None of them have given me a problem that couldn't be solved with minimal effort, and a majority of those problems were my fault for trying to push too far, and even then it wasn't Abit that failed me, it was the hardware I had attached to it that couldn't handle what I was trying to force it to do. I like Abit because they give me the ability to push my systems to the edge of the envelope and beyond, but it is stupid to say that they suck if I push past the edge. Besides that, Abit provides better documentation on their products than any other manufacturer I have ever seen.
Since fuel cells can easily be adapted to use the natuaral gas that is more than likely running through a pipe outside your home somewhere, there is no point to replacing electrical lines with Hydrogen lines.
Don't terminate your windows clients either! The idea behind of these type of programs is give and take. If you only run the program when you want something, you're nothing but a leech. Of course, I'll bet that most of you who only run the software only when you want something have sharing disabled anyway.
I know, I know. You're gonna tell me that using these types of programs is contradictory to the moral highground I am trying to take because I'm leeching money from the pockets of the artists that have worked hard to produce the wonderful music, moveis and software that I am downloading. But hey, at least I am giving back to the community of theives that make it possible for me to get the files I am downloading in the first place.
Most of us like two or three channels which we need the full package cable to get, naturally.
That used to be true for me too. Now I spend most of my time on FoodTV (or slashdot), because it's the only thing interesting on. I once watched mostly TLC or Discovery, but they seem to be fascinated by the Real Trauma or Real Detective type shows as of late. It sucks. I will not pay for AT&Ts crappy ass digital cable (30 extra crap channels and no TechTV). I could get Dishnet, but placement of the dish would be extremely ugly and insecure due to trees in my yard and across the street. TV pretty much sucks these days. AT&T pisses me off with these misleading flyers they send in the mail, get "up to" 230 channels with digital cable...... Yeah, whatever. Dish Network kicks AT&Ts ass where I live. for the same price I can literaly get twice as many channels for the same price, and there are some channels that I would enjoy there too.
Most of you people have been bitching for years about MS products instability. So they worked on that problem and licked it. If any of you try and say that 2k or XP isn't stable, I'll call you a biased liar. I have been using 2k or xp for over a year and a half and have yet to encounter a problem that couldn't be fixed with the task manager. My 2k server has been up and running for 194 days without a restart (only 194, yeah, becausethat's when the last power outage hit). My XP install has been runnng for 34 days without a restart, and 4 different people use this machine (only 34 days, yeah, 'cause 34 days ago I had to replace a dead CDROM drive). So, in my opinion, the stability problem has been licked, and XP looks good too.
Now they intend to focus on security, and what do you people do? You call it a PR move. Of course it's a PR move. What better way to get good PR than to focus on a problem and fix it? Honestly though, what I think you're all worried about is the fact that if they do focus on this and work this out, you people might have to admit that Microsoft makes a better product.
I am expecting to be modded down, so I won't be upset if I am, it will just help prove my point. I'm not after your brownie points.
Oh sure, now we can get neato translucent color cases for our PCs. I absolutely hated the way everybody and their brother tried to capitalize on the iMacs success by making every product you could possibly think of out of transparent colored plastic.
Actually, using XP, I can boot to the login prompt in 22 seconds (and be at a usable desktop about 7 seconds after logging on), shutdown in 9 seconds, and using these wonderful little drive caddies, I can swap any one of my HDs in about 5 seconds.
The info is not only available on the web, it's already being broadcast (more than likely) on your cable. I have a decent RCA TV with built in Guide Plus+ that recieves guide info right from the cable I already have. I have lived in three different towns with this TV (Mlps, a podunk LA town and Spokane) and all (even the podunk cable provider) provided the info the TV needed to build a three day guide for free. The TV come with an IR blaster to control my cable box and VCR, so you can tell the TV to record a show when it comes on or set reminders for the show, and it's all done automatically.
So my question is, when is someone going to hack the series one TiVos to utilize the Guide info already being provided by the cable companies? Is this possible, anyone? If I'm not mistaken, PBS also broadcasts the same info OTA for those of you stuck with an antenna only.
I have been using PCs for almost 20 years, I have never seen mainstream PC operating systems get this bad.
I have been using PCs for as long as I can remember, since back in the 8088 days anyway. I have had the oportunity (and in some cases, the misfortune) to run every version of windows for the PC since V2.0 . I will say with no doubt, that Windows XP is the most stable and visualy pleasing version of windows I have ever used. Windows 2000 was just as stable, but not nearly as nice to look at.
Now is the time when you tell me to try linux, right? Before you do, I already have, on several occasions. Looked nice, very stable, but not enough software to make me happy.
You sir are a liar.
Just because his experience is different from your experience does not make him (or me) a Liar.
Sorry. Accidentally hit submit instead of preview.
If someone can honestly and simply explain to me how someone who can use Windows can sit down at a decently configured KDE desktop (I don't use KDE personally, but I have in the past) and not be able to figure out how to use KDE with basically no trouble... I will be amazed
I agree with you that if the system is configured properly it is not hard to use. The problem for the average user when it comes to linux is getting it confugured properly.. I have run linux in the past,and have to say (this coming from someone who has been passionate about computing since he was 8 years old) that if your backgound is with DOS and Windows, the learning curve for Linux is steep, very steep. I spent weeks buried in books, cryptic man pages and online readmes that all seemed to asume that anyone who was reading them knew as much as the author, in an effort to learn as much as I could. I walked away with a pretty good understanding of Linux (though I must tell you that if someone would write a easy to read "Linux for DOS users" type manual it would have been much easier). Once the system was configured properly and KDE was up and running, it was, for a lack of a better word, beautiful. Not just KDE, some of the other WM and skins I could apply to them were simply AWESOME!
However, the underlying problem remained. This is the same problem I have been talking about for years to linux advocates. The lack of applications. Sure I could do basic stuff, and with some effort I could install software to do some of the things I wanted to do, but overall, there were so many things that I could not do because the software was either not available, or it was so much of a pain in the butt to install and use that I simply could not warrant the time & effort it took to do it.
Please don't get me wrong. I'm not out to bash (no pun intended) Linux, I just think that it's not ready for the average user. That is not to say that it never will be. I have had the opportunity to install and try a few distros over the years and I have to applaud the great advances that have been made to make it easier to configure and manage, but it's still not ready for joe user.
A word to all you developers out there. Keep up the good work.
If someone can honestly and simply explain to me how someone who can use Windows can sit down at a decently configured KDE desktop (I don't use KDE personally, but I have in the past) and not be able to figure out how to use KDE with basically no trouble... I will be amazed
I agree with you that if the system is configured properly it is not hard to use. The problem for the average user when it comes to linux is getting it confugured properly.
It's becoming more and more obvious (to me, at least) that Microsoft, or Public Relations firms hired by ms, are preparing pro-microsoft posts for the purpose of damage control or other reasons, and posting them to discussion groups such as Slashdot.
This is perhaps the most paranoid thing I have heard in a long time. The fact that this "pep talk" letter has been labled by some idiot as an attempt to discredit linux is bad enough, but that you think MS has PR firms trying to run damage control over this is absurd.
I read the letter, and what I got from it is that this guy wants his employees to do a better job at managing their accounts. This is not wrong or an attack. It is business. If you were in business selling a product or service, would you stand by idle while company B came along and started trying to sell your customers the same product or service?
If the letter is even legitimate, given the content,the article should have been more appropriately titled "Microsoft taking Linux seriously".
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You're the kind of fella that makes tech support difficult. Just smart emough to figure out how to fuck things up.
You really should learn to be a more frugal shopper. I could get the same setup for just over $1600.
I have read speculation posted as fact. I have read people say "Why don't they do this....?" when they already do. I have read the ridiculous rantings of anti-MS zealots who have no friggin clue what they are talking about. I have read the stupid opinions agreeing with the aformentioned clueless zealots.
I remember when Slashdot was a fun and informative place to hangout. Now it seems to be dominated by nitwits.
Quit your fucking whining, jackass. This is why you have no friends. You take things way too seriously. Nobody likes you, so just go masturbate in your moms underwear drawer the way you always do.
At home, I have never had a IDE drive die on me, but I have had all 3 SCSI drives that I have used in my personal machines die.
How exactly am I going to have to keep paying to use XP? I may have to pay to play certain online games on XP, but the same would be true if I were playing those games on 98, ME or even linux (if the programmers ported that way.
Not even he would say his hearing is "just fine". Check the story...
Thank you for saving me the time of pointing that out.
I ran a 4 node BBS using Vbbs under DesqView. I remember the agony I went trhough trying to create rip graphics for it. I finally canned 'em all and cocenrtated on the ascii. Man, those were the days. Back then we were GODS my friends. I am SYSOP
The reason the chips allow playing copied games is the very same reason the chips allow region unlocking for DVDs. You cannot disable the feature that allows playing backups while leaving the DVD region unlocking feature enabled. The two features are one and the same.
How does Abit try to overclock? How does Abit push too for? Just because they provide you with the means to push your CPU past its ability, doesn't mean you have to do it. It's your fault if your CPU is overclocked to a point that it becomes unstable.
Abit has never let me down. 4 out of 5 machines I am currently running at home use Abit Mobos. None of them have given me a problem that couldn't be solved with minimal effort, and a majority of those problems were my fault for trying to push too far, and even then it wasn't Abit that failed me, it was the hardware I had attached to it that couldn't handle what I was trying to force it to do. I like Abit because they give me the ability to push my systems to the edge of the envelope and beyond, but it is stupid to say that they suck if I push past the edge. Besides that, Abit provides better documentation on their products than any other manufacturer I have ever seen.
Since fuel cells can easily be adapted to use the natuaral gas that is more than likely running through a pipe outside your home somewhere, there is no point to replacing electrical lines with Hydrogen lines.
Don't terminate your windows clients either! The idea behind of these type of programs is give and take. If you only run the program when you want something, you're nothing but a leech. Of course, I'll bet that most of you who only run the software only when you want something have sharing disabled anyway.
I know, I know. You're gonna tell me that using these types of programs is contradictory to the moral highground I am trying to take because I'm leeching money from the pockets of the artists that have worked hard to produce the wonderful music, moveis and software that I am downloading. But hey, at least I am giving back to the community of theives that make it possible for me to get the files I am downloading in the first place.
That used to be true for me too. Now I spend most of my time on FoodTV (or slashdot), because it's the only thing interesting on. I once watched mostly TLC or Discovery, but they seem to be fascinated by the Real Trauma or Real Detective type shows as of late. It sucks. I will not pay for AT&Ts crappy ass digital cable (30 extra crap channels and no TechTV). I could get Dishnet, but placement of the dish would be extremely ugly and insecure due to trees in my yard and across the street. TV pretty much sucks these days. AT&T pisses me off with these misleading flyers they send in the mail, get "up to" 230 channels with digital cable...... Yeah, whatever. Dish Network kicks AT&Ts ass where I live. for the same price I can literaly get twice as many channels for the same price, and there are some channels that I would enjoy there too.
Why'd it take this long to get cancelled?
Most of you people have been bitching for years about MS products instability. So they worked on that problem and licked it. If any of you try and say that 2k or XP isn't stable, I'll call you a biased liar. I have been using 2k or xp for over a year and a half and have yet to encounter a problem that couldn't be fixed with the task manager. My 2k server has been up and running for 194 days without a restart (only 194, yeah, becausethat's when the last power outage hit). My XP install has been runnng for 34 days without a restart, and 4 different people use this machine (only 34 days, yeah, 'cause 34 days ago I had to replace a dead CDROM drive). So, in my opinion, the stability problem has been licked, and XP looks good too.
Now they intend to focus on security, and what do you people do? You call it a PR move. Of course it's a PR move. What better way to get good PR than to focus on a problem and fix it? Honestly though, what I think you're all worried about is the fact that if they do focus on this and work this out, you people might have to admit that Microsoft makes a better product.
I am expecting to be modded down, so I won't be upset if I am, it will just help prove my point. I'm not after your brownie points.
Actually, modern satellite internet solutions, though still high latency, are 2-way.
Oh sure, now we can get neato translucent color cases for our PCs. I absolutely hated the way everybody and their brother tried to capitalize on the iMacs success by making every product you could possibly think of out of transparent colored plastic.
Actually, using XP, I can boot to the login prompt in 22 seconds (and be at a usable desktop about 7 seconds after logging on), shutdown in 9 seconds, and using these wonderful little drive caddies, I can swap any one of my HDs in about 5 seconds.
The info is not only available on the web, it's already being broadcast (more than likely) on your cable. I have a decent RCA TV with built in Guide Plus+ that recieves guide info right from the cable I already have. I have lived in three different towns with this TV (Mlps, a podunk LA town and Spokane) and all (even the podunk cable provider) provided the info the TV needed to build a three day guide for free. The TV come with an IR blaster to control my cable box and VCR, so you can tell the TV to record a show when it comes on or set reminders for the show, and it's all done automatically.
So my question is, when is someone going to hack the series one TiVos to utilize the Guide info already being provided by the cable companies? Is this possible, anyone? If I'm not mistaken, PBS also broadcasts the same info OTA for those of you stuck with an antenna only.
It's sound. Why would you need anything more than USB? Besides, practically every new PC these days has USB. How many have 1394?
I have been using PCs for almost 20 years, I have never seen mainstream PC operating systems get this bad.
I have been using PCs for as long as I can remember, since back in the 8088 days anyway. I have had the oportunity (and in some cases, the misfortune) to run every version of windows for the PC since V2.0 . I will say with no doubt, that Windows XP is the most stable and visualy pleasing version of windows I have ever used. Windows 2000 was just as stable, but not nearly as nice to look at.
Now is the time when you tell me to try linux, right? Before you do, I already have, on several occasions. Looked nice, very stable, but not enough software to make me happy.
You sir are a liar.
Just because his experience is different from your experience does not make him (or me) a Liar.
Sorry. Accidentally hit submit instead of preview.
If someone can honestly and simply explain to me how someone who can use Windows can sit down at a decently configured KDE desktop (I don't use KDE personally, but I have in the past) and not be able to figure out how to use KDE with basically no trouble... I will be amazed
I agree with you that if the system is configured properly it is not hard to use. The problem for the average user when it comes to linux is getting it confugured properly.. I have run linux in the past,and have to say (this coming from someone who has been passionate about computing since he was 8 years old) that if your backgound is with DOS and Windows, the learning curve for Linux is steep, very steep. I spent weeks buried in books, cryptic man pages and online readmes that all seemed to asume that anyone who was reading them knew as much as the author, in an effort to learn as much as I could. I walked away with a pretty good understanding of Linux (though I must tell you that if someone would write a easy to read "Linux for DOS users" type manual it would have been much easier). Once the system was configured properly and KDE was up and running, it was, for a lack of a better word, beautiful. Not just KDE, some of the other WM and skins I could apply to them were simply AWESOME!
However, the underlying problem remained. This is the same problem I have been talking about for years to linux advocates. The lack of applications. Sure I could do basic stuff, and with some effort I could install software to do some of the things I wanted to do, but overall, there were so many things that I could not do because the software was either not available, or it was so much of a pain in the butt to install and use that I simply could not warrant the time & effort it took to do it.
Please don't get me wrong. I'm not out to bash (no pun intended) Linux, I just think that it's not ready for the average user. That is not to say that it never will be. I have had the opportunity to install and try a few distros over the years and I have to applaud the great advances that have been made to make it easier to configure and manage, but it's still not ready for joe user.
A word to all you developers out there. Keep up the good work.
If someone can honestly and simply explain to me how someone who can use Windows can sit down at a decently configured KDE desktop (I don't use KDE personally, but I have in the past) and not be able to figure out how to use KDE with basically no trouble... I will be amazed
I agree with you that if the system is configured properly it is not hard to use. The problem for the average user when it comes to linux is getting it confugured properly.
It's becoming more and more obvious (to me, at least) that Microsoft, or Public Relations firms hired by ms, are preparing pro-microsoft posts for the purpose of damage control or other reasons, and posting them to discussion groups such as Slashdot.
This is perhaps the most paranoid thing I have heard in a long time. The fact that this "pep talk" letter has been labled by some idiot as an attempt to discredit linux is bad enough, but that you think MS has PR firms trying to run damage control over this is absurd.
I read the letter, and what I got from it is that this guy wants his employees to do a better job at managing their accounts. This is not wrong or an attack. It is business. If you were in business selling a product or service, would you stand by idle while company B came along and started trying to sell your customers the same product or service?
If the letter is even legitimate, given the content,the article should have been more appropriately titled "Microsoft taking Linux seriously".