For the past few weeks, I've been getting the impressions that the spirit of McCarthy is stalking the corridors of power in America. In the 50s & 60s, Communists were called "Pinkos" and were distrusted, reviled & hated. Now I'm beginning to see the roots of a similar distrust of Muslims. Airlines are already willing to tell the authorities if a passenger requests a meal without pork (despite the fact they could be jews, or allergic to pork).
Thinking back to the Vietnam war, this was motivated largely by this distrust/hatred of communism. Americans protested against the war in droves; the history is there. Now we're going to war against Iraq and the protests are back.
Nintendo is dying off in the UK; Dixons (major high street retailer; part of the same group as PC World) have effectively stopped selling it, clearing existing stock only. Argos are heavily discounting and are likely to stop selling RSN.
They're not out of the game yet, but without a turnaround, they're going to become irrelevant soon.
If they try to milk it too long, they'll fall behind the technology ladder. Fall too far, you risk losing market share and people will just buy Xbox(2) instead. Game makers will follow and soon PS3 is a dead duck before it's launched.
As it is, they're already behind Xbox technologically and the only thing keeping PS2 winning is the game selection. If MS buys up enough games companies for Xbox only titles, PS2 will start losing market share heavily.
*shrug* time will tell, as ever; 3 years is a long time for MS to make Sony an also ran.
Because an unelected warmonger is in charge of a country with a stockpile of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. He flouts the UN and refuses to sign his country up for the International Court or for environmental controls like the Kyoto agreement.
However, as others have said, it's very much aimed at the non-techie people; managers, secretaries, office juniors etc, people who might want a bit of paper saying "I know how to use a computer to write a letter & send email". Any reasonable IT person should pass it with flying colours without any revision.
From the experience of a sysadmin in a uni which ran the course, the software was apparently very clunky & difficult to get running; I avoided that task, but the admin who did get the job cursed it vehemently any time he had to work with it.
FWIW, it became a standard part of the first semester of the HND computing course at the uni.
Probably a fair point. As another poster suggested, try finding an alternative site like a Pakistani newspaper. If you can read French or German, try their news sites, since they are against the war.
Read all the viewpoints, filter out the hyperbole and crap and whatever's left should be relatively useful.
Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. There was a comedy show ("Between Iraq and a Hard Place"; very funny, but worryingly accurate) which said "We know that in 1990 Iraq had enough Anthrax to kill the world population twice over. We know this, because we sold him most of it."
No support for spanning tapes with a dump; i.e. if you need to dump 4GB on a 2GB and you can't compress it down, you're stuffed.
Restoring files is fiddly
Yup, Amanda is great for small setups (I use it myself at home) but it lacks certain features to make it really usable. For example, I had to restore some files in Legato Networker; I was able to open up a GUI, navigate to the file and set the restore path (i.e. where it will restore to). With that done, it worked out which tapes the file was on and restored.
Hrm, I'm trying to remember the card (I think it was an es1371), but I've had a sound card which would reliably lock up Win98 on bootup. I ended up ditching that card & getting a new one using a different chipset.
Since Fibre Channel is always found in external drive arrays
Er, no, except perhaps in the Intel world. Sun certainly ships newer servers (280, 480, 880 & 1280) with FC internal disks. Their reason for that (given in their FAQ is that the arbitration for SCSI still takes place at the original 5MB/sec.
Er, current exchange rates are about $1.60 to £1, making it nearer $400 per unit. Secondly, US-UK prices are often nearer parity and (as I've posted elsewhere), it wouldn't surprise me to see this on sale in the US for $250-300.
Well, FWIW, UK-US costs for stuff like this are usually about parity and it wouldn't surprise me to see this on sale in the US for £250-300. Partly it's due to VAT (17.5%), partly it seems that UK gets shafted in prices.
Hrm, might be off the wall, but how about using the power cable? We already have the ability to do broadband over electricity wires, how about we simply use that technology in the home to web-enable these kind of devices? If a home doesn't have the setup already, no sweat, you just miss out on the extra features. If you do have it, you simply plug in your toaster/freezer/whatever and it gets a DHCP address and it's on the net!
Batteries have been around for decades and we probably have eked out most of the performance from them. However, I did read something in the last few days about some advances in lithium batteries which may help out.
In essence, batteries use well known chemistry/physics which we know a lot more about than making CPUs. Added to this, there are certain hard limits in this based on the chemistry/physics involved. We're probably already fairly near them using current battery techniques. The advances above may help out, but until they've delivered, we're stuck at current battery technology.
To be honest, another approach should be to make CPUs equivalent to 500MHz PIIs; it's enough for most things (word processing, email) and should be able to be designed at a very low power consumption.
Well, I think a lot of them are rehashes of old games; ISTR hearing about Amstrad buying up the rights to old Spectrum games for use on phones and other mini-hardware.
When I helped my mother get on the internet (she uses it mainly for registering cattle movements on the web), I took a CD with Zone Alarm on it with me and installed that with the settings locked down.
My home connection (linux box on ADSL) is slightly more open, with ports 22, 80 & 443 open. Only two users have access to port 22, though (unless ssh breaks again...). Everything else at home is NAT'd through the linux box.
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For the past few weeks, I've been getting the impressions that the spirit of McCarthy is stalking the corridors of power in America. In the 50s & 60s, Communists were called "Pinkos" and were distrusted, reviled & hated. Now I'm beginning to see the roots of a similar distrust of Muslims. Airlines are already willing to tell the authorities if a passenger requests a meal without pork (despite the fact they could be jews, or allergic to pork).
Thinking back to the Vietnam war, this was motivated largely by this distrust/hatred of communism. Americans protested against the war in droves; the history is there. Now we're going to war against Iraq and the protests are back.
How much of a parallel is there here?
They're not out of the game yet, but without a turnaround, they're going to become irrelevant soon.
As it is, they're already behind Xbox technologically and the only thing keeping PS2 winning is the game selection. If MS buys up enough games companies for Xbox only titles, PS2 will start losing market share heavily.
*shrug* time will tell, as ever; 3 years is a long time for MS to make Sony an also ran.
Because an unelected warmonger is in charge of a country with a stockpile of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. He flouts the UN and refuses to sign his country up for the International Court or for environmental controls like the Kyoto agreement.
And he doesn't like Saddam Hussein.
From the experience of a sysadmin in a uni which ran the course, the software was apparently very clunky & difficult to get running; I avoided that task, but the admin who did get the job cursed it vehemently any time he had to work with it.
FWIW, it became a standard part of the first semester of the HND computing course at the uni.
Read all the viewpoints, filter out the hyperbole and crap and whatever's left should be relatively useful.
Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. There was a comedy show ("Between Iraq and a Hard Place"; very funny, but worryingly accurate) which said "We know that in 1990 Iraq had enough Anthrax to kill the world population twice over. We know this, because we sold him most of it."
Oops, wrong muscle...
One thing to beware: a lot of vendors ship the snapshot capabilities as an added cost option; if you intend to use it, make sure of your costings.
- No support for spanning tapes with a dump; i.e. if you need to dump 4GB on a 2GB and you can't compress it down, you're stuffed.
- Restoring files is fiddly
Yup, Amanda is great for small setups (I use it myself at home) but it lacks certain features to make it really usable. For example, I had to restore some files in Legato Networker; I was able to open up a GUI, navigate to the file and set the restore path (i.e. where it will restore to). With that done, it worked out which tapes the file was on and restored.Hrm, I'm trying to remember the card (I think it was an es1371), but I've had a sound card which would reliably lock up Win98 on bootup. I ended up ditching that card & getting a new one using a different chipset.
The FAQ states that GPS is specifically allowed.
Er, current exchange rates are about $1.60 to £1, making it nearer $400 per unit. Secondly, US-UK prices are often nearer parity and (as I've posted elsewhere), it wouldn't surprise me to see this on sale in the US for $250-300.
Well, FWIW, UK-US costs for stuff like this are usually about parity and it wouldn't surprise me to see this on sale in the US for £250-300. Partly it's due to VAT (17.5%), partly it seems that UK gets shafted in prices.
Does it include his arch-nemesis, Nastyman?
Subscriber probably had earlier access and us scum have had to wait :)
Sheesh, you're asking the wrong place. This deserves an entire "Ask Slashdot".
Hrm, might be off the wall, but how about using the power cable? We already have the ability to do broadband over electricity wires, how about we simply use that technology in the home to web-enable these kind of devices? If a home doesn't have the setup already, no sweat, you just miss out on the extra features. If you do have it, you simply plug in your toaster/freezer/whatever and it gets a DHCP address and it's on the net!
In essence, batteries use well known chemistry/physics which we know a lot more about than making CPUs. Added to this, there are certain hard limits in this based on the chemistry/physics involved. We're probably already fairly near them using current battery techniques. The advances above may help out, but until they've delivered, we're stuck at current battery technology.
To be honest, another approach should be to make CPUs equivalent to 500MHz PIIs; it's enough for most things (word processing, email) and should be able to be designed at a very low power consumption.
Well, I think a lot of them are rehashes of old games; ISTR hearing about Amstrad buying up the rights to old Spectrum games for use on phones and other mini-hardware.
"Available in the second quarter" is not a real implementation, it's vapourware, at least for now.
1. Gnome should never have started because it took developers away from KDE.
2. Competition from Gnome has pushed KDE to strive for better
Which is true? *shrug* just playing Devil's advocate, again.