But I have noticed that HP-UX seems to be an amalgam of the other three Unices listed above.
And they still make a keyboard that is seriously fucked up; what kind of Unix vendor puts / as a shifted key? It's probably the most used symbol when using Unix (as the directory delimiter).
I've been able to switch between US/UK keyboard layouts and still touch-type, but I cannot use an HP keyboard without looking at the keys. That, in my view, is bad design.
Hrm, this brings to mind a sketch from many years ago (from the Mary Whitehouse Experience):
Band member: we're number one in Bulgaria!
Translator: We're crap.
Band member: we're number one in Czechoslovakia!
Translator: We're totally crap
Band member: We're number one in America!
Translator: We're crap... but rich...
However, the SunFire V880 is very easy to work with. I had to strip one down to rack mount it (you want it light as possible when lifting it up 4 feet in the air) and managed to remove fans, CPU boards and power supplies very easily.
Of course, as these components are designed to be "hot-swap" they kinda have to be easy to remove!
While the V880 is in a radically different class from the G4 (server vs workstation), Sun kit in general is much nicer to work with. I remember one of the first things I did as a sysadmin was adding RAM to some SPARCstation 5s and my boss showing me how to remove/replace one of the hard drives. Of course, you pay for that ease of use.
PHB: "I've been saying for years that employees are our most valuable asset. It turns out that I was wrong. Money is our most valuable asset. Employees are ninth."
Wally: "I'm afraid to ask what came eighth."
PHB: "Carbon paper."
Someone can't be arrested for trespasrsing at your house if they come up and ring the doorbell
Hrm, but it seems that you can be shot. There was a case about 8 years ago when a Scotsman knocked on someone's door and the house owner, thinking this was a robber (because robbers always knock first...) shot him through the door with no warning.
What action was taken? None. No charges were ever raised against him.
the computer industry - whose $600 billion annual turnover dwarfs Hollywood's piddling $18bn
Aside from Intel, I haven't heard any comments from other computer industry companies. Obviously, MS is going to be gung-ho about it as they'll quite happily sell us the legitimate OS with rights protection (didn't they also file a patent for it?), but this would affect the business model of IBM, HPaq, Sun and AMD (as well as the aforementioned Intel) and these companies should be finding their own "pet" senators to fight their cause in Congress (in the same way that Hollywood has bought out Hollins). Much as I hate to see the "good" side doing this, it seems to be the way that US government works (if it can be said to work....).
Given a $600bn turnover (even without MS's contribution which must be considerable), the industry should be able to fight this if it becomes serious.
Sounds like some kind of broadcast storm; e.g. a mass ARP request or something.
As others have suggested, you really want to run some kind of a network trace (e.g. tcpdump) and have a look. My guess is that it should show up what the hell is going on.
ISTR hearing about these before; IIRC they sent a short signal to the caller that the line was engaged or was invalid. This was short enough that legit users wouldn't notice it, but the telemarketers' call machines would and mark the number invalid.
I have no idea how reliable they are or what their effect on legit callers is, but another post seems to think they weren't much good. *shrug*
Most online games don't use that much traffic these days; they have to be able to cope with 56k (or less) modems, so the amount of traffic is limited. It certainly shouldn't affect a cable modem network.
As far as multimedia goes, it might be worth shelling out for the crossover plugin to allow quicktime/Media Player to work. It's only $24.95 per seat and they might even give a discount on bulk orders.
The exhibition's in London until mid-September, then goes to the National Museum in Scotland
When I saw a bit on TV about it last night and heard it was coming to Edinburgh (I'm about 3 hours up the road in Aberdeen), I figured I had to visit. Something to pencil in for late September, methinks!
personal meanderings: the bit on TV had some 20-somethings remembering slotting 10p's into slot machines as they grew up; I remember fondly playing the arcade games in the local chip shop during school lunch breaks; my crowning achievment was being able to finish Gryzor on one credit every time. This was also made better as I as the only one who would use the flamethrower; everyone else went for the spray gun. The flamethrower did more damage, but you had to be damned accurate with it, and it took some good timing on the angle shots. Hope they have one of them at the show, although I doubt I'd be as good as I was.
Not sure about Sega's games, but I've had a lot of fun with SSX Tricky; kept me sane while I had a broken ankle (I could sit on the settee and keep my leg raised in front of the TV/PS2).
Hehe, here in the UK, they're more worried about the football (that's soccer for americans) World cup. As it's held in Japan & Korea, all the games will be shown in the morning. They're expecting a number of sickies to be pulled on the days of the England games.
At least they don't have to worry about Scottish fans calling in sick; we failed to qualify again, despite doing pretty well to begin with. Pity we couldn't beat those giants of the game, Lithuania *sigh*.
From what I could gather, it seemed that 90% of its users were only interested in getting MP3's of songs they didn't want to pay for. There were some who would use it to listen to a song to evalutate whether they wanted to buy a CD, but they were the minority.
The net result is that it made the recording industry start clamping down on things like MP3 ripping and CD copying (both of which I do legitimately; I make MP3s of CD's to listen to on the computer/iPaq and copies of CDs to listen to in my car). All that Napster has done for me in that regard is make my life hell if I want to continue doing that with new CDs.
I'm not going to start the argument about "Napster helps CD sales" because it's been beaten to a pulp. My guess is that it cuts both ways (some people would figure "why buy if I can get it off Napster?" others would try it on Napster then decide to buy)
SSA is still alive and well, although it tends to only get used with IBM systems. The IBM marketing says it will work with other vendors (including Windows), but I haven't seen it used elsewhere.
In "simple" games like Q3A, we're already seeing frame rates >100 even in high resolutions which is more than the monitor can handle. In these cases, even a 50% difference isn't a big deal. Also, ISTR that there's limit to what the human eye can see; any frame rates over that are wasted.
And in that link, you've pointed out what was so funny about that comment by Douglas Adams; it's immensly believable. The absurd can be funny, but when you add a hint of realism to the absurd, it's far better.
Couldn't Transmeta chips (which are programmable to a degree) or FPGA's be an answer in the longer term? Obviously, a lot of the reason for requiring 8086 chips is down to form factor etc, but couldn't converters be made to help out?
My understanding is that the FS supported size is only half the problem; there's a layer above that which handles disk accesses which is probably where the limitation lies.
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I've been able to switch between US/UK keyboard layouts and still touch-type, but I cannot use an HP keyboard without looking at the keys. That, in my view, is bad design.
Band member: we're number one in Bulgaria!
Translator: We're crap.
Band member: we're number one in Czechoslovakia!
Translator: We're totally crap
Band member: We're number one in America!
Translator: We're crap... but rich...
Yup, I no longer have a floppy drive in any of my home PCs and I've only missed it once, and that wasn't a biggie.
It really worries me that MS are now effectively admitting "our code sucks, and we can't fix it".
Of course, as these components are designed to be "hot-swap" they kinda have to be easy to remove!
While the V880 is in a radically different class from the G4 (server vs workstation), Sun kit in general is much nicer to work with. I remember one of the first things I did as a sysadmin was adding RAM to some SPARCstation 5s and my boss showing me how to remove/replace one of the hard drives. Of course, you pay for that ease of use.
PHB: "I've been saying for years that employees are our most valuable asset. It turns out that I was wrong. Money is our most valuable asset. Employees are ninth."
Wally: "I'm afraid to ask what came eighth."
PHB: "Carbon paper."
What action was taken? None. No charges were ever raised against him.
Given a $600bn turnover (even without MS's contribution which must be considerable), the industry should be able to fight this if it becomes serious.
As others have suggested, you really want to run some kind of a network trace (e.g. tcpdump) and have a look. My guess is that it should show up what the hell is going on.
...on Non Sequitur (highly recommended web cartoon, BTW!)
I have no idea how reliable they are or what their effect on legit callers is, but another post seems to think they weren't much good. *shrug*
Most online games don't use that much traffic these days; they have to be able to cope with 56k (or less) modems, so the amount of traffic is limited. It certainly shouldn't affect a cable modem network.
As far as multimedia goes, it might be worth shelling out for the crossover plugin to allow quicktime/Media Player to work. It's only $24.95 per seat and they might even give a discount on bulk orders.
personal meanderings: the bit on TV had some 20-somethings remembering slotting 10p's into slot machines as they grew up; I remember fondly playing the arcade games in the local chip shop during school lunch breaks; my crowning achievment was being able to finish Gryzor on one credit every time. This was also made better as I as the only one who would use the flamethrower; everyone else went for the spray gun. The flamethrower did more damage, but you had to be damned accurate with it, and it took some good timing on the angle shots. Hope they have one of them at the show, although I doubt I'd be as good as I was.
To each their own, I guess...
Of course, aeroplanes could just "dump" the heat out at altitude where it's cold, hence Boeing's interest.
At least they don't have to worry about Scottish fans calling in sick; we failed to qualify again, despite doing pretty well to begin with. Pity we couldn't beat those giants of the game, Lithuania *sigh*.
The net result is that it made the recording industry start clamping down on things like MP3 ripping and CD copying (both of which I do legitimately; I make MP3s of CD's to listen to on the computer/iPaq and copies of CDs to listen to in my car). All that Napster has done for me in that regard is make my life hell if I want to continue doing that with new CDs.
I'm not going to start the argument about "Napster helps CD sales" because it's been beaten to a pulp. My guess is that it cuts both ways (some people would figure "why buy if I can get it off Napster?" others would try it on Napster then decide to buy)
SSA is still alive and well, although it tends to only get used with IBM systems. The IBM marketing says it will work with other vendors (including Windows), but I haven't seen it used elsewhere.
Let the ST vs Amiga flamewars commence! :)
In "simple" games like Q3A, we're already seeing frame rates >100 even in high resolutions which is more than the monitor can handle. In these cases, even a 50% difference isn't a big deal. Also, ISTR that there's limit to what the human eye can see; any frame rates over that are wasted.
And in that link, you've pointed out what was so funny about that comment by Douglas Adams; it's immensly believable. The absurd can be funny, but when you add a hint of realism to the absurd, it's far better.
Couldn't Transmeta chips (which are programmable to a degree) or FPGA's be an answer in the longer term? Obviously, a lot of the reason for requiring 8086 chips is down to form factor etc, but couldn't converters be made to help out?
My understanding is that the FS supported size is only half the problem; there's a layer above that which handles disk accesses which is probably where the limitation lies.
Hrm, isn't that the definition of somebody's pr0n collection? :)