"There's a pendulum thing where stuff is on the client side and then goes back into the network where it belongs," McNealy said. "The answering machine put voicemail by the desk, and then it went back into the network."
While I do understandthe pendulum analogy, I think the answering machine is a terrible example. When I get home and want my messages I want the ease of hitting a button, pushing forward button to go to the next message, erase button to get rid of it etc. I don't want to have to pick up my phone, hold it to my ear, take the phone away from my ear to push 7 for next message or 76 to backup or 84 to delete or whatever combination needed to navigate. I have this service on my phone right now. I finally convinced some tech at the phone company I DIDN'T want this crappy service. I only have it cause the bundle I buy has it and its still cheaper than buying unbundled. The way the tech fixed the problem is he set my answering option to answer after 99 rings or something. I really hated picking up the phone and hearing the stutter dial tone saying I had a message and I knew I was never going in that system to get it.
I hate to sound like an apple commercial but I just want shit to work. My life is complicated enought without dealing with the remote answering machine.
Will Blu-ray be backwards compatible with DVD?
Yes, several leading consumer electronics companies (including Panasonic, Philips, Pioneer, Samsung, Sharp, Sony and LG) have already demonstrated products that can read/write CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs using a BD/DVD/CD compatible optical head, so you don't have to worry about your existing DVD collection becoming obsolete. Although it's up to each manufacturer to decide if they want to make their products backwards compatible with DVD, the format is far too popular to not be supported. The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) expects every Blu-ray Disc device to be backward compatible with CDs and DVDs.
You can use the install cd's to create a boot server. Boot server has to be solaris also. Find another sun machine, mount the cd. On the main cd (not the install cd but cd #1 which is really the second cd) issue the setup_install_server command. Then on the third cd do the same. After that issue the add_install_client command with mac address of the server you want to netboot with.
Heh, I caught the zero for an O but thought it was some dumb ass who was trying to be "with it" and targeting his report to "hip tech folk." I figured it was the beginning of MS new fud campaign I've been reading so much about.
And to that guy who wants me hit with a clue stick, don't bother it will only adversely hurt my next review. I'm better off clueless here, I think its a prerequist for promotion.
-Cho
After he compiles his data, he discovers that Mac OSX has a lower total cost of ownership. To that he states "As clearly demonstrated, other than the toy OS Mac OS X, Windows has the lowest TCO on the Market."
Do these guys ever listen to the reports put out buy business when a Window's virus rips Through companies infrastructure infecting everything and causing massive disruptions? The estimated damages are always HUGE. Even if you did patch your server it doesn't mean all the desktops in your company have been serviced. The colateral damage of a virus looking for unpatched windows machines is often as bad as being infected. Just for once I'd like to see a TCO report that accounts for this.
-Cho
Lots of comments already about why 7 tuners. One thing I can think of is the fact that during prime time all tv stations put on their best shows. Think thursday night. Maybe you want to watch what starts at 7:00 on fox, nbc, cbs, abc, discovery, and mtv. You can effectivly watch primetime tv for 7 hours (7pm to 8pm * 7 channels) if you wanted to. Is 7 overkill.... maybe but you need at least 4 and what better way to utilize that 1TB of storage than with 7 streams.
-Cho
"PS2 Ships. Aside from SSX, launch games are a crushing disappointment, as not one of them beyond this title demonstrates clear technical superiority to the aging Dreamcast, despite the huge gap in their release dates."
Gran Turismo 3 A-spec.... This title by it's self was a HUGE selling point for the ps2. On top of that you have the ps2 leveraging all its past ps1 titles. That is why Sony's backward compatibility is such a big deal even today. Right now the ps3 could come out with zero games designed specifically for it and you'd still have more titles you could play on it than on the X-box. The possibility of MS X-box II not offering backward compatibility with the original is a big gamble.
-Cho
I always thought it would be funny to see a comic depicting steping on a 4sided die in dragon magazine. The caption simply being Billy takes 1d4 damage for stepping on a die.
Last year I found this AWESOME anti-virus program for the linux mail server I was supporting. It, IMHO was the best solution for my linux box. During the 30day evaluation Rav announced they had been bought out by Microsoft and would no longer be supporting linux. This was a very sad day for me. I hope that Microsoft is using this companies tech and allow them to keep doing the great job they were doing before being purchased.
Rav's website is http://www.ravantivirus.com/
While in the past, longer pipelines did cause slowdowns, Intel maybe able to lengthen the pipelines by leveraging Hyper Threading (HT).
http://intel.com/business/bss/products/hyperthread ing/overview.htm
Its my understanding that HT uses the gaps in the pipeline as a second virtual cpu.
-Cho
At the age of 17, can Mike Rowe legally negotiate the sell of the domain name without the authorization of his parents? He should try to back out of his trapped position stating an his age as a factor. Can microsoft legally negotiate with a 17 year old or is this in its self illegle?
My manager just recently discovered the joys that saving money by deploying oracle on linux/intel servers instead of our previous oracle/sparc strategy. I can just see him in a save money frenzy... "6k for these hp intel boxes or 1k for these emachines and I get a 64bit chip to boot! Twice the bits for 1/6th the price, how can we go wrong?!?!?"
In the artical about linux user trying windows XP he says he hasn't found a way to disable windows messanger. True its a real pain in the ass. Here's what I found. run the command gpedit.msc
Then drill down Administrative Templates, Windows Components, and finally Messenger. Messenger has a setting you have to enable to disable messenger. I know it sounds crazy but trust me. Its worded like this... "Enable the Disable of Messenger"
Here's a website that talks about it. http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/archive/39/2 002/02/1/426
I believe that in California, the state provides a 50% rebate. I live in Texas and also talked to BP about a system and came to nearly the exact same conclusion you reached. With cells lasting 20-25 years, and my ROI taking 20 years, it just wasn't worth it. California has a big advantage over my area when it comes to solar. The have an average of 6 hours of usable sunlight a day while my area is about 4.5 hours a day on average. On top of this the state pays for half the system, thus cutting the time to re-coup cost in half.
I would think that Office would do better without Outlook. Think about how much less virus press MS would get without outlook.
When you start refering to your outlook address book as your personal virus generator... you might have a problem.
The distro from Sony requires a linux cd to be in the ps2. The kit comes with a hd, keyboard, mouse and video cable that allows you to plug up a vga monitor to it. When you first boot of the disk it formats the hd, installs linux, an then formats a memory card and installs lilo on it. After this process is done, you still need the linux disk in the ps2. This disk is read only when you first hit the power button, it then uses lilo memory card to boot off the hard drive your installed on.
I haven't read the artical yet since its slashdotted but I bet the process will be to add a gentoo package that will convert your system over to the gentoo way of life. Very cool.
-Cho
How could this post possibly be insightful? Saying users aren't "so innocent if they let themselves be infected" is like placing the blame on a robbery victim. While I agree that people need to maintain their systems, I feel distributors of faulty OS's are truely to blame. I don't see any warning on the windows xp box saying:
Warning, box contains crappy code that must be patched weekly in order to function properly. I wonder if the back of the box should also warn how much bandwidth you need to be willing to give up to keep up with patches. While a few megs a week may not seem like much to me, Joe user, I'm sure it builds up when you think of a business that has hundreds of machines.
-Cho
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Dude, if I join a union I can play WOW all day?!?! Sign me up.
"There's a pendulum thing where stuff is on the client side and then goes back into the network where it belongs," McNealy said. "The answering machine put voicemail by the desk, and then it went back into the network." While I do understandthe pendulum analogy, I think the answering machine is a terrible example. When I get home and want my messages I want the ease of hitting a button, pushing forward button to go to the next message, erase button to get rid of it etc. I don't want to have to pick up my phone, hold it to my ear, take the phone away from my ear to push 7 for next message or 76 to backup or 84 to delete or whatever combination needed to navigate. I have this service on my phone right now. I finally convinced some tech at the phone company I DIDN'T want this crappy service. I only have it cause the bundle I buy has it and its still cheaper than buying unbundled. The way the tech fixed the problem is he set my answering option to answer after 99 rings or something. I really hated picking up the phone and hearing the stutter dial tone saying I had a message and I knew I was never going in that system to get it. I hate to sound like an apple commercial but I just want shit to work. My life is complicated enought without dealing with the remote answering machine.
No but I like the way you think. ;)
Keep in mind how new this mutli-threading thingy is. Why is sarcasm so hard to get across in type?
Will Blu-ray be backwards compatible with DVD? Yes, several leading consumer electronics companies (including Panasonic, Philips, Pioneer, Samsung, Sharp, Sony and LG) have already demonstrated products that can read/write CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs using a BD/DVD/CD compatible optical head, so you don't have to worry about your existing DVD collection becoming obsolete. Although it's up to each manufacturer to decide if they want to make their products backwards compatible with DVD, the format is far too popular to not be supported. The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) expects every Blu-ray Disc device to be backward compatible with CDs and DVDs.
Don't forget the Grand Turismo series.
You can use the install cd's to create a boot server. Boot server has to be solaris also. Find another sun machine, mount the cd. On the main cd (not the install cd but cd #1 which is really the second cd) issue the setup_install_server command. Then on the third cd do the same. After that issue the add_install_client command with mac address of the server you want to netboot with.
No.
Heh, I caught the zero for an O but thought it was some dumb ass who was trying to be "with it" and targeting his report to "hip tech folk." I figured it was the beginning of MS new fud campaign I've been reading so much about. And to that guy who wants me hit with a clue stick, don't bother it will only adversely hurt my next review. I'm better off clueless here, I think its a prerequist for promotion. -Cho
After he compiles his data, he discovers that Mac OSX has a lower total cost of ownership. To that he states "As clearly demonstrated, other than the toy OS Mac OS X, Windows has the lowest TCO on the Market." Do these guys ever listen to the reports put out buy business when a Window's virus rips Through companies infrastructure infecting everything and causing massive disruptions? The estimated damages are always HUGE. Even if you did patch your server it doesn't mean all the desktops in your company have been serviced. The colateral damage of a virus looking for unpatched windows machines is often as bad as being infected. Just for once I'd like to see a TCO report that accounts for this. -Cho
Lots of comments already about why 7 tuners. One thing I can think of is the fact that during prime time all tv stations put on their best shows. Think thursday night. Maybe you want to watch what starts at 7:00 on fox, nbc, cbs, abc, discovery, and mtv. You can effectivly watch primetime tv for 7 hours (7pm to 8pm * 7 channels) if you wanted to. Is 7 overkill.... maybe but you need at least 4 and what better way to utilize that 1TB of storage than with 7 streams. -Cho
"PS2 Ships. Aside from SSX, launch games are a crushing disappointment, as not one of them beyond this title demonstrates clear technical superiority to the aging Dreamcast, despite the huge gap in their release dates." Gran Turismo 3 A-spec.... This title by it's self was a HUGE selling point for the ps2. On top of that you have the ps2 leveraging all its past ps1 titles. That is why Sony's backward compatibility is such a big deal even today. Right now the ps3 could come out with zero games designed specifically for it and you'd still have more titles you could play on it than on the X-box. The possibility of MS X-box II not offering backward compatibility with the original is a big gamble. -Cho
I always thought it would be funny to see a comic depicting steping on a 4sided die in dragon magazine. The caption simply being Billy takes 1d4 damage for stepping on a die.
Last year I found this AWESOME anti-virus program for the linux mail server I was supporting. It, IMHO was the best solution for my linux box. During the 30day evaluation Rav announced they had been bought out by Microsoft and would no longer be supporting linux. This was a very sad day for me. I hope that Microsoft is using this companies tech and allow them to keep doing the great job they were doing before being purchased. Rav's website is http://www.ravantivirus.com/
While in the past, longer pipelines did cause slowdowns, Intel maybe able to lengthen the pipelines by leveraging Hyper Threading (HT). http://intel.com/business/bss/products/hyperthread ing/overview.htm
Its my understanding that HT uses the gaps in the pipeline as a second virtual cpu.
-Cho
At the age of 17, can Mike Rowe legally negotiate the sell of the domain name without the authorization of his parents? He should try to back out of his trapped position stating an his age as a factor. Can microsoft legally negotiate with a 17 year old or is this in its self illegle?
I just bought a new wireless / dsl router from netgear at compusa. 99 bucks plus a 20 dollars mail in rebate. It's G and B compatible.
My manager just recently discovered the joys that saving money by deploying oracle on linux/intel servers instead of our previous oracle/sparc strategy. I can just see him in a save money frenzy... "6k for these hp intel boxes or 1k for these emachines and I get a 64bit chip to boot! Twice the bits for 1/6th the price, how can we go wrong?!?!?"
This is like an uber-geek/nerd role call.
In the artical about linux user trying windows XP he says he hasn't found a way to disable windows messanger. True its a real pain in the ass. Here's what I found. run the command gpedit.msc Then drill down Administrative Templates, Windows Components, and finally Messenger. Messenger has a setting you have to enable to disable messenger. I know it sounds crazy but trust me. Its worded like this... "Enable the Disable of Messenger" Here's a website that talks about it. http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/archive/39/2 002/02/1/426
I believe that in California, the state provides a 50% rebate. I live in Texas and also talked to BP about a system and came to nearly the exact same conclusion you reached. With cells lasting 20-25 years, and my ROI taking 20 years, it just wasn't worth it. California has a big advantage over my area when it comes to solar. The have an average of 6 hours of usable sunlight a day while my area is about 4.5 hours a day on average. On top of this the state pays for half the system, thus cutting the time to re-coup cost in half.
I would think that Office would do better without Outlook. Think about how much less virus press MS would get without outlook. When you start refering to your outlook address book as your personal virus generator... you might have a problem.
If I buy a tshirt does get rid of the banner ads on my slashdot account?
The distro from Sony requires a linux cd to be in the ps2. The kit comes with a hd, keyboard, mouse and video cable that allows you to plug up a vga monitor to it. When you first boot of the disk it formats the hd, installs linux, an then formats a memory card and installs lilo on it. After this process is done, you still need the linux disk in the ps2. This disk is read only when you first hit the power button, it then uses lilo memory card to boot off the hard drive your installed on. I haven't read the artical yet since its slashdotted but I bet the process will be to add a gentoo package that will convert your system over to the gentoo way of life. Very cool. -Cho
How could this post possibly be insightful? Saying users aren't "so innocent if they let themselves be infected" is like placing the blame on a robbery victim. While I agree that people need to maintain their systems, I feel distributors of faulty OS's are truely to blame. I don't see any warning on the windows xp box saying: Warning, box contains crappy code that must be patched weekly in order to function properly. I wonder if the back of the box should also warn how much bandwidth you need to be willing to give up to keep up with patches. While a few megs a week may not seem like much to me, Joe user, I'm sure it builds up when you think of a business that has hundreds of machines. -Cho