Apparently quite a lot of people, this is what the latest of perhaps a dozen articles since the mac->intel announcement?
As a small developer that with about a 50/50 split in customers that run OSX and customers running Windows, having a single machine for support is a very attractive thing.
Happens all the time. My desktop at work came with a perfectly useful Windows XP disk and license. However our internal IS guys didn't have an XP image for the machine so when I booted it up, surprise windows 2000! MS gets a twofer.
Because last November I bought a dual Xeon 3 ghz with 3 year warranty for the same money it would cost to buy just the CPUs and OS from some place like newegg. So I got for free; memory, video, motherboard, optical drive, hard drive, + 3 year warranty, and didn't have to spend a few hours assembling it myself.
If something goes wrong with it, I don't have to spend my time futzing with it, a guy shows up the next day with parts and fixes it. On one dell laptop when the power supply burned out, they shipped me a new one morning delivery, I had it before the batteries died. One coworker they sent a new laptop power supply when he just lost it, he had called to order a new one. You can't beat the support.
Now the wife's game machine is a homegrown because it doesn't cost me money when it's down, but for my production machines I always buy Dell.
Won't help. The folks I know personally that are genuine creationists also don't vaccinate the kids and generally pick holistic medicine over real physicians. They aren't buying anything from the pharmacy companies anyways.
Isn't there something in there about only 144,000 being saved in the end? Tell me, do you consider yourself one of the top 144,000 people that have ever been, also one of the members of the twelve tribes too? So is that literal too? Seems like if you take the bible literally then you've got a snowball's chance in hell of actually being saved.
You can certainly use it legally. You just have to tell your wife or kids before hand that anything they type on the machine is being logged. It's then not secret listening.
Now if you still have that wife after you've basically told her you don't trust her, that might be a different issue. I see it being quite handy for keeping an eye on the kids, though I'm more in the mindset of keep all the kids computers in the public area so I can just look at them and see if they are arranging a rendevous with the internet pedaphile.
Back in November of last year I decided to sell a laptop, but I figured I'd give Linux a spin again. I do this every year or so to see how it's coming along. I downloaded Mandrake/Mandriva whatever it was called at the time. It seemed to install beautifully, booted up good, GUI all worked, but no wireless. I was using a "supported" dlink wireless card. After about two days of googling on and off, I found the answer. It was supported, all I had to get a bunch of stuff (which I had no idea how to find) and recompile the kernel. I closed the lid and sold the laptop.
I loved playing around with stuff like that when I was in college, but as an adult with wife, kids, house, two jobs, recompiling my kernel to get the wireless working in late 2004 is just silly. I can dig around menus and find the appropriate app just fine as I switch back and forth between my PCs and Macs, but it's got to at least function at a basic level before it's worth my time.
While I agree with the frustration with the Apple drones, the problem is even 13-16W is not low enough. My 14" laptop with 1.6 ghz Pentium M pulls 12-13 watts total for the entire system when doing stuff like typing code, web, mail, listening to music, even light graphics work. It jumps to about 18W when I kick off a render. I routinely get nearly 4 hours off of a 53whr battery doing real work.
The G5 alone will take that much power, then add harddrive, lcd, wireless, chipset, video, etc. IBM's low power doesn't cut it.
All he's shown here is that OS X is not appropriate for a high-demand, single-application server, and that's not really news to anyone.
Actually it is news to some people because Apple would have you believe otherwise. XServes were on my short list of things to evaluate before these articles, my list is shorter now.
These were good articles for people in the market for those sorts of things.
Are you using some sort of bizarro SATA card? I've installed XP from original XP Pro CDs (not even sp1) on two SATA machines and there was nary a hickup.
You could make your Windows desktop pretty hard to break too.
1. Install the apps they need. 2. Give them a normal user account (no admin rights). 3. Install AV software on auto-update (free or dirt cheap). 4. Set windows to auto-install updates. 5. Set them up with Firefox/Thunderbird for browsing and email.
That little set up will reduce your family support calls to nearly nothing. Start thinking like a (good) network admin, and you'll have a low maintenance family too.
For the very few times that you need to get in an do something, if they are on XP Pro, use terminal services, if not install VNC.
Actually they have figured out the bone thing too. I'm sure with a little googling you'd be able to find online reference to it.
The gist of it is (and they have found transitional forms for all ye creationists) is that it started out as pockets of calcium distributed around the body so that salt water fish could survive in fresh water. The specifics are beyond me right now. It of course has other advantages so was selected for an now there are lots of boney fish which later gave rise to the land vertebrates.
Yeah, but who buys a Precision laptop for average worker use? You can buy the inspiron version for much less, we just ordered a 2ghz latitude with 2gig of ram for 2k.
The problem is the retirees on fixed incomes. When the grannies have no game shows to watch, soon they'll be running in packs on the streets, knitting sweaters for unsuspecting citizens. Do you want that in your neighborhood!!??
Please Mod this parent up, this is the funniest thing I've seen all day especially after the posts in other slashdot story where folks who "copyright infringe" try to make themselves feel better about what they've done.
As much as I liked Firefly it did get bad numbers. I remember reading after it got canned that the abysmal Fast and Furious rip off they replaced it with got higher ratings the first Friday it had the slot.
Fox is a business, one that has a habit of cancelling anything I seem to have an interest in (Brisco County, Tick, Firefly, Space Above and Beyond, etc.), but a business. If the people want crap, then Fox will give them crap. It's how capitalism works. Don't be mad at Fox, be sad for your neighbor who thinks American Idol is actually entertaining.
I found one and married her, electrical engineer, but attractive and athletic, thinks Army of Darkness is the best movie ever.
The other night, when I got home from work there was fried chicken, then after the kids went to bed sweet lovin', and finally she helped me finish off an arch-villian in City of Heroes. It just doesn't get any better than that! If I believed in a god I would be on my knees every night thanking him.
For those that haven't found their great geek girlfriend, keep the faith, they are out there.
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Apparently quite a lot of people, this is what the latest of perhaps a dozen articles since the mac->intel announcement?
As a small developer that with about a 50/50 split in customers that run OSX and customers running Windows, having a single machine for support is a very attractive thing.
I stopped using them years ago when after installing it deleted everything in my start menu.
Happens all the time. My desktop at work came with a perfectly useful Windows XP disk and license. However our internal IS guys didn't have an XP image for the machine so when I booted it up, surprise windows 2000! MS gets a twofer.
Come on mods, this is funny!
Two reasons, price, support.
Because last November I bought a dual Xeon 3 ghz with 3 year warranty for the same money it would cost to buy just the CPUs and OS from some place like newegg. So I got for free; memory, video, motherboard, optical drive, hard drive, + 3 year warranty, and didn't have to spend a few hours assembling it myself.
If something goes wrong with it, I don't have to spend my time futzing with it, a guy shows up the next day with parts and fixes it. On one dell laptop when the power supply burned out, they shipped me a new one morning delivery, I had it before the batteries died. One coworker they sent a new laptop power supply when he just lost it, he had called to order a new one. You can't beat the support.
Now the wife's game machine is a homegrown because it doesn't cost me money when it's down, but for my production machines I always buy Dell.
Now we have you!
Won't help. The folks I know personally that are genuine creationists also don't vaccinate the kids and generally pick holistic medicine over real physicians. They aren't buying anything from the pharmacy companies anyways.
Isn't there something in there about only 144,000 being saved in the end? Tell me, do you consider yourself one of the top 144,000 people that have ever been, also one of the members of the twelve tribes too? So is that literal too? Seems like if you take the bible literally then you've got a snowball's chance in hell of actually being saved.
You can certainly use it legally. You just have to tell your wife or kids before hand that anything they type on the machine is being logged. It's then not secret listening.
Now if you still have that wife after you've basically told her you don't trust her, that might be a different issue. I see it being quite handy for keeping an eye on the kids, though I'm more in the mindset of keep all the kids computers in the public area so I can just look at them and see if they are arranging a rendevous with the internet pedaphile.
You got it!
Back in November of last year I decided to sell a laptop, but I figured I'd give Linux a spin again. I do this every year or so to see how it's coming along. I downloaded Mandrake/Mandriva whatever it was called at the time. It seemed to install beautifully, booted up good, GUI all worked, but no wireless. I was using a "supported" dlink wireless card. After about two days of googling on and off, I found the answer. It was supported, all I had to get a bunch of stuff (which I had no idea how to find) and recompile the kernel. I closed the lid and sold the laptop.
I loved playing around with stuff like that when I was in college, but as an adult with wife, kids, house, two jobs, recompiling my kernel to get the wireless working in late 2004 is just silly. I can dig around menus and find the appropriate app just fine as I switch back and forth between my PCs and Macs, but it's got to at least function at a basic level before it's worth my time.
At least a good five and I'm betting he'll make it to eight.
While I agree with the frustration with the Apple drones, the problem is even 13-16W is not low enough. My 14" laptop with 1.6 ghz Pentium M pulls 12-13 watts total for the entire system when doing stuff like typing code, web, mail, listening to music, even light graphics work. It jumps to about 18W when I kick off a render. I routinely get nearly 4 hours off of a 53whr battery doing real work.
The G5 alone will take that much power, then add harddrive, lcd, wireless, chipset, video, etc. IBM's low power doesn't cut it.
Actually it is news to some people because Apple would have you believe otherwise. XServes were on my short list of things to evaluate before these articles, my list is shorter now.
These were good articles for people in the market for those sorts of things.
ehem, http://www.apple.com/powermac/design.html
What are the two words in the image near the top of the page.
Liquid Cooled.
It was when the lawsuit started. There was no battery replacement and Apple's advice when your battery died was "buy a new ipod".
Are you using some sort of bizarro SATA card? I've installed XP from original XP Pro CDs (not even sp1) on two SATA machines and there was nary a hickup.
You must not have kids. If Dora the Explorer has taught us anything, it's that sticky tape is always a quick fix for any problem!
You could make your Windows desktop pretty hard to break too.
1. Install the apps they need.
2. Give them a normal user account (no admin rights).
3. Install AV software on auto-update (free or dirt cheap).
4. Set windows to auto-install updates.
5. Set them up with Firefox/Thunderbird for browsing and email.
That little set up will reduce your family support calls to nearly nothing. Start thinking like a (good) network admin, and you'll have a low maintenance family too.
For the very few times that you need to get in an do something, if they are on XP Pro, use terminal services, if not install VNC.
Actually they have figured out the bone thing too. I'm sure with a little googling you'd be able to find online reference to it. The gist of it is (and they have found transitional forms for all ye creationists) is that it started out as pockets of calcium distributed around the body so that salt water fish could survive in fresh water. The specifics are beyond me right now. It of course has other advantages so was selected for an now there are lots of boney fish which later gave rise to the land vertebrates.
Yeah, but who buys a Precision laptop for average worker use? You can buy the inspiron version for much less, we just ordered a 2ghz latitude with 2gig of ram for 2k.
California == Endor?
The problem is the retirees on fixed incomes. When the grannies have no game shows to watch, soon they'll be running in packs on the streets, knitting sweaters for unsuspecting citizens. Do you want that in your neighborhood!!??
Please Mod this parent up, this is the funniest thing I've seen all day especially after the posts in other slashdot story where folks who "copyright infringe" try to make themselves feel better about what they've done.
As much as I liked Firefly it did get bad numbers. I remember reading after it got canned that the abysmal Fast and Furious rip off they replaced it with got higher ratings the first Friday it had the slot.
Fox is a business, one that has a habit of cancelling anything I seem to have an interest in (Brisco County, Tick, Firefly, Space Above and Beyond, etc.), but a business. If the people want crap, then Fox will give them crap. It's how capitalism works. Don't be mad at Fox, be sad for your neighbor who thinks American Idol is actually entertaining.
I found one and married her, electrical engineer, but attractive and athletic, thinks Army of Darkness is the best movie ever.
The other night, when I got home from work there was fried chicken, then after the kids went to bed sweet lovin', and finally she helped me finish off an arch-villian in City of Heroes. It just doesn't get any better than that! If I believed in a god I would be on my knees every night thanking him.
For those that haven't found their great geek girlfriend, keep the faith, they are out there.