Air cooling and silent computers are fine until you start adding storage. I have one computer with a 10k RPM RAID-5 setup and another with twelve IDE drives. You just cant make such systems quite and passively cooled. Unless you cast them in a big block of aluminum or somthing, and then they would heat up the room.
Next they'll start using shinny discs with microscopic pock marks that are "readable" with a high focus laser diod.
Naw, thats the stuff of science fiction.
Can someone give me a one sentance summery of the article? I'm in the middle of playing World of Warcraft while I should be debugging some filter engine code and cant be bothered to read it all.
I believe in the protection of IP be it copywrite or patents. However I dont think every thing that has been patented should have been. Had it been me I would not have granted Eolas their patent.
I dont use the operating system much, I use applications.
I hate to say it but Photoshop (for example) is Photoshop, be it on OSX or Windows XP (and yes I have and use both systems). The only time the platform comes into question is when a given app is missing from one or the other.
"iDownload's front page claims that they are spyware free. To put things in perpective, spyware is like farting, the first person to deny it usually did it. If you read further down their list, it says "Certified Virus Free". Have you ever seen software have to claim its virus free? And where exactly do you get this certification, and who certifies it? I want to see the certificate. Its their software dammit, of course its virus free (assuming they were a legit company), just like all commercial software from respectable companies should be."
People giving away their "software" on street corners often will have certificates detailing their state of viral infection.
Oh, software wasn't a clever analogy was it? Never mind.
"If a company requires a Windows desktop PC, and you can't install anything else on it, then YES, you're forced to use a Windows machine. What's so hard to understand that (unless you're a Microsoft apologist)?"
So there are no other jobs? If using a Windows system is such a hardship that you catagorize it as being "forced" in the same way your "forced" to put on clothing or get out of bed in the morning then I would recomend a change of jobs. I've had jobs where I was "forced" to use Solaris, Macs, and yes even Linux.
It has been said that you are the master of your own destiny. So make a change or suck it up.
"But at work, I'm forced to have a windows machine."
You'r "forced" to have a windows machine at work? So did Bill Gates and his storm troopers kick down your door one day, shanghai you and chain you to a desk in some tech support hell?
Or are you "forced" in the same way that dairy worker is "forced" to work with dairy products or a carpenter is "forced" to work with wood?
Can do it with one screen using field sequential stereoscopic images and a polarized LCD over the projector. Otherwise you would need a stereo multiplexor to split the signal into a right and left image for the two projectors. No matter what you would need a video card that supported a steroscopic mode and a flight sim that had full z depth queuing.
"Forgot "good weather" -- that's probably the best part of all!
Yeah, I know their is fog here, but overall -- come on -- where is the weather (on average) better?"
"do you use some terminal regedit or what? I think it would be pretty difficult to start/stop drivers, change config files or network settings trough telnet on a windows server."
The registry can be edited on a remote system from a local isntance of regedit. In addition there are many command line tools for dealing with services, drivers and network settings. However if you need to mes around with the network settings, what are the odds you can telnet into the box be it Windows or Linux?
"Have you considered using non-Microsoft sources for your IT information?"
Yes. In point of fact I'm running a SAMBA based windows domain right now. Oh wait, are you one of those people that think everyone not as rabidly anti microsoft as you must in fact be pro microsoft?
"How Linux admins can easily administrate more machines per person-hour, due to the nature of Unix/Linux's remote administration (and don't even get me started on VNC or Terminal Services; they aren't scriptable, they aren't as bandwidth-effective, etc. etc. etc...), than Windows admins?"
Most admin tasks on windows can be done via Telnet. Hell, as you well know you can run BASH and SSH if you feel like it. A "good" admin can deal with as many Unix systems as Windows systems.
"The "hidden" costs of lost time due to (A) protecting against adware/spyware/malware/viruses/pop-ups, or (B) actually disinfecting machines that got infected anyhow."
We're talking about servers here. In a well designed domain no one has the rights to the server systems required to infect them with anything.
"The "hidden" costs of downtime due to buggy MS software. Sure, F/OSS stuff has bugs too, but when it does, at least the admin can try to fix them. When MS software is buggy, the admin is 100% at MS's mercy to fix the bug (since, being closed source, MS software is often 100% unfixable to anyone outside MS...)"
Right. Because all Linux admins are realy high level coders that can debug kernel conflicts in their spare time. When software wont work, 99.999% of the time you just wait till the writter fixes it.
"The "hidden" costs of dealing with "hacked" IIS servers (vs. Apache)."
Check the statistics. Apache gets compromised a lot. Whats more there is NOTHING saying you must use IIS if you run Windows. Whats more, all you need to do is delete the cursed front page crap to fix 90% of whats wrong with IIS.
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Whats next, rude phone calls? Or how about ringing the door bell and then running away?
Sorry, but its not like Motorola is going to stop because a group they never heard of handed them a letter.
I use fiber optic gigabit. Its far thiner then the stuff they're talking about.
Are you saying that having no source of revenue is a poor buisness model? Whell now you tell me, thats just great.
Air cooling and silent computers are fine until you start adding storage. I have one computer with a 10k RPM RAID-5 setup and another with twelve IDE drives. You just cant make such systems quite and passively cooled. Unless you cast them in a big block of aluminum or somthing, and then they would heat up the room.
Play back OOG or FLAC audio files? Oh i know, gapless MP3 playback? Hava a good EQ?
Next they'll start using shinny discs with microscopic pock marks that are "readable" with a high focus laser diod. Naw, thats the stuff of science fiction.
Can someone give me a one sentance summery of the article? I'm in the middle of playing World of Warcraft while I should be debugging some filter engine code and cant be bothered to read it all.
before he hefted a beer keg over his head while all his frends chanted "ogre, ogre, ogre".
I believe in the protection of IP be it copywrite or patents. However I dont think every thing that has been patented should have been. Had it been me I would not have granted Eolas their patent.
I hate to say it but Photoshop (for example) is Photoshop, be it on OSX or Windows XP (and yes I have and use both systems). The only time the platform comes into question is when a given app is missing from one or the other.
True.
However a good rule of thumb is that if you cant understand the EULA, dont agree to it. I mean would you sign somthing you didn't understand?
People giving away their "software" on street corners often will have certificates detailing their state of viral infection.
Oh, software wasn't a clever analogy was it? Never mind.
So there are no other jobs? If using a Windows system is such a hardship that you catagorize it as being "forced" in the same way your "forced" to put on clothing or get out of bed in the morning then I would recomend a change of jobs. I've had jobs where I was "forced" to use Solaris, Macs, and yes even Linux.
It has been said that you are the master of your own destiny. So make a change or suck it up.
You'r "forced" to have a windows machine at work? So did Bill Gates and his storm troopers kick down your door one day, shanghai you and chain you to a desk in some tech support hell?
Or are you "forced" in the same way that dairy worker is "forced" to work with dairy products or a carpenter is "forced" to work with wood?
No, it just shows that you know how to use Google.
i) The propagation mechanism for Rossby Waves
ii) The primary sources of deep water formation in the Atlantic
iii) How a western boundary current is formed
iv) What Meddies are.
v) What a pycnocline is.
Can do it with one screen using field sequential stereoscopic images and a polarized LCD over the projector. Otherwise you would need a stereo multiplexor to split the signal into a right and left image for the two projectors. No matter what you would need a video card that supported a steroscopic mode and a flight sim that had full z depth queuing.
But I bet having it makes them some bread.
Its rather nasty outside right now in Oakland.
Why not? There's good food, good jobs, good culture and good public transportation. I live in the bay area and see no need to own a car.
The registry can be edited on a remote system from a local isntance of regedit. In addition there are many command line tools for dealing with services, drivers and network settings. However if you need to mes around with the network settings, what are the odds you can telnet into the box be it Windows or Linux?
Yes. In point of fact I'm running a SAMBA based windows domain right now. Oh wait, are you one of those people that think everyone not as rabidly anti microsoft as you must in fact be pro microsoft?
Most admin tasks on windows can be done via Telnet. Hell, as you well know you can run BASH and SSH if you feel like it. A "good" admin can deal with as many Unix systems as Windows systems.
"The "hidden" costs of lost time due to (A) protecting against adware/spyware/malware/viruses/pop-ups, or (B) actually disinfecting machines that got infected anyhow."
We're talking about servers here. In a well designed domain no one has the rights to the server systems required to infect them with anything.
"The "hidden" costs of downtime due to buggy MS software. Sure, F/OSS stuff has bugs too, but when it does, at least the admin can try to fix them. When MS software is buggy, the admin is 100% at MS's mercy to fix the bug (since, being closed source, MS software is often 100% unfixable to anyone outside MS...)"
Right. Because all Linux admins are realy high level coders that can debug kernel conflicts in their spare time. When software wont work, 99.999% of the time you just wait till the writter fixes it.
"The "hidden" costs of dealing with "hacked" IIS servers (vs. Apache)."
Check the statistics. Apache gets compromised a lot. Whats more there is NOTHING saying you must use IIS if you run Windows. Whats more, all you need to do is delete the cursed front page crap to fix 90% of whats wrong with IIS.
A pound of flesh, no more or less, not even to the twentieth part.
Why not just use a thermal regulator? My dual xeon setup has this built into the mother board. The case and cpu fans dont move unless they are needed.
Yea right. All the actresses would quit as soon as they saw what little there was of the "fan designed" costumes.