The only package I installed was kvirc. For some reason it quoted kvirc as the needed dependency, I didn't look into it, I just ckicked OK because I was reading something.
I am using a fresh install of Mandrake 9.1, I killed it not longer than 10 minutes ago
I boot up the working system, try to install kvirc from the SuSE RPM, mentions need to satisfy dependency and install kvirc-something-or-other, I click yes. Never installs I never get another error.
Go into KDE control panel, click around in the styles section, kde begins locking up. I start closing stuff. kicker is starting to lock up also. I try to run a terminal from quick launch and get an error to the effect of KDE init cannot find.... executable. I log out of kde, and it puts my in a shell. I try to run startx and get startx not found. I run reboot, it boot back into a shell (was configured for autologin). I log in, run startx, no go, log in as root try again, no go. I give up and boot into windows.
Anandtech did a review on the WD 10K drive where it showed some very good results beating out the 10K SCSI drives on most benchmarks.
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You will never see that much bandwidth because there are so many other bottlenecks. Your throughput is only as fast as the slowest node. To be honest I believe advancements in fiber technology like Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) and advancements in router processor/RAM technology will have a greater effect on your throughput than this. Although it will be a while before your throughput from the net is faster than your HDD can handle you do make a valid point about the limits of the technology. In particular with LAN file servers and transfer rates. Gig Ethernet cards already come standard on Power Macs. I think the next evolution of PC design will be RAM drives and storage. You will also see larger HDD cache, and more use of cache in general.
Maybe this works for a product that only costs $15 to buy. Maybe for half a grand all but the dial-up users and mentally challenged will wait for a server or buy download bandwidth instead. Maybe instead of giving me Office as a gift you can make a small down payment on my next car. Maybe a business plan based around the mentally challenged is not popular with stock investors. Maybe impulse buying a $500 product is the reason there is a 7 day waiting period to get a handgun in this state. Maybe you actually needed someone to tell you this.
The fluxbox package is about 1.5 meg. It's everything KDE is not. I still use KDE only becasue I am kind of tied to having a start menu and windows style task management. If these changes were made to FluxBox it would still be very fast.
If Office is your $496.99 product, what prevents me from just building and selling a non-supported version for $5? Answer: nothing. You would have to bring your price way down and cut development and support costs or lose a ton of money. You might say "but they can afford to lose a ton of money" Yeah, there is a good business plan. If many of you OSS supporters were in the same situation I am sure you would do the same. That "Information wants to be free" shit would end fast.
Nothing like a little revenge. The site does not look like it's going to choke as they obviously have a ton of bandwidth, but anyone want to guess what their data transfer statistics look like right now?
An 18" LCD for $350? Maybe off the back of a truck. Not to mention that I have never actually seen an 18" monitor. Cheap 17" LCD monitors are in the $400 range, my average 17" SAMSUNG SyncMaster costs about $500, the 19" version costs about $800. Decent 17" flat-tube CRT monitors are in the $150 range, I bought my last one for $120.
I think right now MS is sort of pushing minimal hardware requirements in attempt to spark PC sales. The next revolutionary product could be a stripped down version of XP. The full versions of XP supports both updating and clean installs. They could ship an OEM install version of windows without all the extra crap that would fit on a zip disk. They could also remove some backwards compatibility and as many of the default services as possible. Aside from being smooth, it would also be more stable and secure. I know 98se could be stripped to a smaller footprint than 98, with any luck they will do the same with XPse.
Actually for price/performance and ease of install Linksys seems to be dominating the home networking sector. You can pick up a 4 port 10/100 full duplex Linksys router for about $50. My slower 4 port cisco (806) router was $550. Maybe They can offer less expensive IOS/firewall home LAN solutions now.
It's a shame that used 400 MHz iMacs are still selling for $600. You can pick up a used 1.4GHz Celeron for $200. I would probably have to go with slightly higher specs than a bottom of the line 400MHz imac, but anything better nears $800, which is just under the price of a new emac. So there you have it, the reason I will probably never own a mac. People refuse to part with their used ones. I guess if I ever do buy a new mac, I know if I decide to upgrade I can get a premium for my used one. It would be sort of like trading in a used Chevy caviler for a new BMW and only having to pay a $2000 difference.
If your mom ever decides to part with her mac, tell her I mess her and I'm sorry I never returned her phone calls.
Apple's $2800 XServ has one 1.33GHz PPC, the Dual system starts at $3800 and I'd be willing to bet a single 3.06GHz HT Xeon could outperform it. Still not a bad deal though.
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You will probably get modded down but I would have to agree with you. If an 11 year old kid decides he thinks Linux is cooler than windows and writes a small review, it is front page news. People seem to accept all the problems with Linux and OSS in general because it's "free". If I put together a paper on why Linux/OSS won't take over the world would it get posted? Why does nobody ever seem to point out the many disadvantages? It's like the Emperors new clothes.
Depending how you use flash, it can actually use less bandwidth than jpeg + html, or gif. It's imbeding sound and adding complex animations that make it large.
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People have been saying this for years now, so what year exactly can we expect this to happen?
I agree RH is nice, I was using RH 8.0 with apt-rpm before installing Mandrake. To me it feels the least beta of the major Linux distros.
The only package I installed was kvirc. For some reason it quoted kvirc as the needed dependency, I didn't look into it, I just ckicked OK because I was reading something.
If a website is slashdoted and someone does not pipe in with "that has got to be a record", was it ever really slashdotted?
I boot up the working system, try to install kvirc from the SuSE RPM, mentions need to satisfy dependency and install kvirc-something-or-other, I click yes. Never installs I never get another error.
Go into KDE control panel, click around in the styles section, kde begins locking up. I start closing stuff. kicker is starting to lock up also. I try to run a terminal from quick launch and get an error to the effect of KDE init cannot find .... executable. I log out of kde, and it puts my in a shell. I try to run startx and get startx not found. I run reboot, it boot back into a shell (was configured for autologin). I log in, run startx, no go, log in as root try again, no go. I give up and boot into windows.
I am sorry if in reading the postings on measurement methods and penis jokes you missed the article.
My Sprint Samsung A460 has this but you can turn it off. It's the "location" option in the setup tool.
Anandtech did a review on the WD 10K drive where it showed some very good results beating out the 10K SCSI drives on most benchmarks.
You will never see that much bandwidth because there are so many other bottlenecks. Your throughput is only as fast as the slowest node. To be honest I believe advancements in fiber technology like Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) and advancements in router processor/RAM technology will have a greater effect on your throughput than this. Although it will be a while before your throughput from the net is faster than your HDD can handle you do make a valid point about the limits of the technology. In particular with LAN file servers and transfer rates. Gig Ethernet cards already come standard on Power Macs. I think the next evolution of PC design will be RAM drives and storage. You will also see larger HDD cache, and more use of cache in general.
Maybe this works for a product that only costs $15 to buy. Maybe for half a grand all but the dial-up users and mentally challenged will wait for a server or buy download bandwidth instead. Maybe instead of giving me Office as a gift you can make a small down payment on my next car. Maybe a business plan based around the mentally challenged is not popular with stock investors. Maybe impulse buying a $500 product is the reason there is a 7 day waiting period to get a handgun in this state. Maybe you actually needed someone to tell you this.
The fluxbox package is about 1.5 meg. It's everything KDE is not. I still use KDE only becasue I am kind of tied to having a start menu and windows style task management. If these changes were made to FluxBox it would still be very fast.
If Office is your $496.99 product, what prevents me from just building and selling a non-supported version for $5? Answer: nothing. You would have to bring your price way down and cut development and support costs or lose a ton of money. You might say "but they can afford to lose a ton of money" Yeah, there is a good business plan. If many of you OSS supporters were in the same situation I am sure you would do the same. That "Information wants to be free" shit would end fast.
Nothing like a little revenge. The site does not look like it's going to choke as they obviously have a ton of bandwidth, but anyone want to guess what their data transfer statistics look like right now?
An 18" LCD for $350? Maybe off the back of a truck. Not to mention that I have never actually seen an 18" monitor. Cheap 17" LCD monitors are in the $400 range, my average 17" SAMSUNG SyncMaster costs about $500, the 19" version costs about $800. Decent 17" flat-tube CRT monitors are in the $150 range, I bought my last one for $120.
I think right now MS is sort of pushing minimal hardware requirements in attempt to spark PC sales. The next revolutionary product could be a stripped down version of XP. The full versions of XP supports both updating and clean installs. They could ship an OEM install version of windows without all the extra crap that would fit on a zip disk. They could also remove some backwards compatibility and as many of the default services as possible. Aside from being smooth, it would also be more stable and secure. I know 98se could be stripped to a smaller footprint than 98, with any luck they will do the same with XPse.
hahahahah that is sooo funny...
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The server is running Apache 1.3 on Unix.
It's not like it matters becasue with dynamic webpages and heavy graphics just about anything would go down with that type of server load.
1. look for a MS related post on
2. Make a BSOD joke
3. ???
4. Karma!
Actually for price/performance and ease of install Linksys seems to be dominating the home networking sector. You can pick up a 4 port 10/100 full duplex Linksys router for about $50. My slower 4 port cisco (806) router was $550. Maybe They can offer less expensive IOS/firewall home LAN solutions now.
If your mom ever decides to part with her mac, tell her I mess her and I'm sorry I never returned her phone calls.
I just priced out a 1U PowerEdge 1650 with dual 1.4GHz PIII's for $2,196. Maybe not a Xeon, but it costs $400 less than the single 1.33GHz PPC XServ.
Apple's $2800 XServ has one 1.33GHz PPC, the Dual system starts at $3800 and I'd be willing to bet a single 3.06GHz HT Xeon could outperform it. Still not a bad deal though.
You will probably get modded down but I would have to agree with you. If an 11 year old kid decides he thinks Linux is cooler than windows and writes a small review, it is front page news. People seem to accept all the problems with Linux and OSS in general because it's "free". If I put together a paper on why Linux/OSS won't take over the world would it get posted? Why does nobody ever seem to point out the many disadvantages? It's like the Emperors new clothes.
Yeah, I was early but couldn't think of anything to write either.
Depending how you use flash, it can actually use less bandwidth than jpeg + html, or gif. It's imbeding sound and adding complex animations that make it large.
You mean like Longhorn's SQL based WinFS?
RTFA. The technology is currently banned from air travel.