No no, that's not exactly what I meant. The original post insinuated that all networks will be mesh, and that everyone would participate in the mesh. I do not see this as becoming a reality anytime soon because none of the current wireless technologies have enough bandwidth, and wired networks can't really mesh without a lot of wires =)
For ISP'ing a wireless mesh, that's a little different, since you can put some large antennas, the routes will be pre-determined, and you won't have that many of them.
Notice the little symbol in there we all like to call a semi-colon. A semi-colon denotes end of thought without ending the sentence.
They even devided it up on the page to make it easier for dumb people to understand. But I guess it wasn't toned down enough..
I will break it down for you.
1) You may use this software for free if you are using it for personal, non commercial use.
2) You may use this software for business, but only if you are a developer (ie no Billing Clerks or Secretaries.)
You do NOT have to be doing both, which is obvious, because you can't use something for personal use (home) and business (the office) use at the same time. You're doing one or the other.
In fact, I think that the license is pretty loose. "Unless you are a developer" is a pretty loose term. You could be developing kernels and applications, or you could be developing web pages. You could probably get away with "developing" spreadsheets.
Open Source/GPL/Etc does not make you immune to patent infringement. If Microsoft patents 1's and 0's, you won't be able to use them in your Open Source application, same as everyone else.
So sure, you can write applications free of patents with a great open source license, but you still can't write code that uses someone's patented "idea."
I think it hurts Open Source. Whereas Microsoft can purchase an expensive license to use someone's patented idea, Open Source projects can not.
I've had the unfortunate experience of working with Windows since version 3, including the lovely 3.11 for workgroups, into NT3, the various iterations of NT4 including Terminal Server, etc, into Windows server 2003 and Windows XP. I still have PC Computing magazines that covered 98% DOS apps and short sidebars about Windows 2.0. All I'm trying to convey here is that I have a boatload of experience troubleshooting Windows. In fact, I worked for one year doing NT4 Server support and two years doing Exchange support (phone support) for Microsoft.
If there's a bug, chances are I've come across it at one time or another.
Maybe I could have dug through the registry and ripped out or corrected whatever the problems were that caused me anguish, but I shouldn't have to do that after replacing hardware. Sure, maybe the old AGP drivers didn't get switched over properly, but damned if I'm going to spend six hours trying to figure out how to remove the old and get windows to use the new drivers. And then, who's to say I won't encounter problems in the future?
I will admit that Windows XP is a lot better at this kind of stuff then it's predicesors. Unfortunately, windows is still Windows, registry fiasco and all. It's not uncommon to have a 25MB registry with a normal amount of software installed!
What does a printer have to do with a mainboard? Last I checked, printers connect to the mainboard via LPT or USB. Replace the mainboard and Windows will likely remove the printer, to detect it on the new USB bus/LPT port. Usb controllers are on the mainboard unless you have an old computer.
Changing drivers to generic ones can have adverse effects. If I tell Windows to use the Generic VGA driver instead of the ATI or nVidia drivers, the next time windows detects the hardware it will sometimes attempt to load the same driver even if I don't want it to. Or, it will consider the hardware static and it sometimes won't properly remove the hardware when it's unplugged.
I've been a victim of the recession and I've been thrown into desktop support for the last 10 months. If you use a single PC or only a few, Windows XP can seem pretty darned stable and good. If you start supporting hundreds of machines, you start to see how bad it really is.
"That's funny; I recently upgraded my mobo to an entirely different chipset (from VIA to nVidia) and I am not having any problems (same install, no repairs, no errors)."
That's funny, I've done the same thing on numerous machines and on each and every one there's always been some annoying side-effect that you can't work around and you have to reinstall anyways. Problems like not being able to install video drivers, or a printer, or install some application, have all happened to me after major system (Mainboard) upgrades.
You don't work on enough PC's, apparently. Registry corruption is ramapant; it doesn't have to be the obvious "Your registry is bad. Re-Install." problems either, it can be something as simple as any program changing a few things around to suit it's own needs. Unfortunately it changed something that breaks something else and it's not obvious what caused the problem since you don't notice it for three weeks.
Almost every application has full access to the registry. How secure is that? And yes, I know, you can limit user access and that will help while RUNNING the software, but the software needs to be installed as an administrator.
A great deal of spyware is installed without user intervention, without a dialogue, simply by using some new (or old) Internet Explorer weakness. There's been countless security patches from Microsoft to address these issues but it seems likely to me that there's many, many others.
The fact that UNIX systems don't have Internet Explorer is technically superior to me.
I run Mozilla on my Linux and Windows boxes. One good thing is that I can bring in my settings and such no matter what OS I run, but also that I have no more problems with spyware on my windows machines.
So, it's not necessarily Windows itself, it's Internet Explorer. However, the windows platform itself isn't very secure and the registry is such a disaster that it makes a good home for Spyware, with IE as the delivery method.
The slower the machine, the more RAM you need to make up for things like slower disk IO and such.
A Pentium III 600 with 512MB will perform just as well or better then a Pentium 4 2Ghz with the 128MB that many computers are still sold with, on everyday tasks like web browsing, grabbing pictures from digital cameras, e-mail, etc. Basically everything but new games.
Gentoo is what it is. I like it, I use it. It works for me. I like how easy updating it and installing new software is. Other people like it for other reasons, or just to (think they are) cool.
The niche finds the distribution, rather then the other way around. Linux is really awesome like that, you can use it for whatever you want to use it for.
You can put Mandrake on all your servers and Redhat on all your workstations if you want to. You can put Gentoo on the firewalls and SuSE on the mail server. Whatever you want.
You apparently have no idea what you're talking about.
I've experienced similar issues on a few machines I run XP on, and all of them have at least 1GB of ram, and all of them have the page file statically set from 2GB - 4GB.
When Windows XP automatically resizes the page file, it TELLS you, so I don't think it's happening without people knowing it..
Sometimes I just run low on available memory, and then Windows XP goes to shit, whereas when it happens to my Linux boxes, they don't.
It's so true that college doesn't teach you real skills, when it comes to most lines of work.
It's pretty funny, how easy to point out all the snobs that went to school and spend god knows how much money and god knows how much time getting all the degrees. All you have to look for is "College isn't about LEARNING, it's about proving you can stay until the end." HOLY FUCKING SHIT I can't believe people BELIEVE THAT SHIT.
School is supposed to TEACH you something, it's not supposed to be a proving ground for how long you can afford to attend. Because we all know, every one of us, that the #1 way to get a MS or PhD is to have rich parents. It's not about being smart.
The whole system is designed to keep the system itself running. College degrees are not about educating, they are about keeping the schools in business. Period.
I'm not saying that SOME people don't manage to get something good from schools, and make a difference in the world. But just as many people WITHOUT degrees make a difference too.
Just about the only thing you need to go to school for years for is to become a doctor or surgeon. Medical schools are set apart from the rest, you actually go there to learn, not just prove you take good notes for 8 years. (unfortunately, the general rule of $$$ still applies..)
Technically, it wasn't an acronym either, because an acronym is supposed to be a word created from the initial letters. You know, like ANSI and ASCII. MSSQL isn't an acronym because you can't pronounce it.
Maybe he meant "MSSAP" as in "Miss Hap" but I don't think he's that whitty.
" The Great Plains (now Microsoft CRM) does not have a ton of visibility yet."
Ohh, it's got tons of visibility - to every technition that's ever had to go within 20 feet of that peice of shit.
It was a peice of shit when it was just plain old Great Plains, now it's a peice of shit with a Microsoft sticker on it.
They thought they could do what they did with Visio, but Visio was actually a good product to begin with.
Apparently they are doing a major rewrite of the whole thing, so maybe it will suck a little less when they are done but it's just terrible, terrible software so I doubt even 2.0 will be worth a crap.
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Yea. I avoid keyboards with windows keys, which is to say I use old keyboards. But they still work, after 8 years, and I love to type on them. I have this old Wang keyboard from where my mother used to work, and it has all these extra keys across the top for when you were using the mainframe terminal emulator. They thing is a tank. It's heavy and it's very comfortable to use.
I go to my friends house from time to time and use his keyboards, which have windows keys. God, I was hitting them so much that I actually just popped them off the keyboard. I got a little tired of getting disconnected from my game because I tapped the wrong key.
I've never found the windows keys to be useful anyways, even when the computers at work have them. Lately, I've been seeing the windows keys get smaller and smaller, and even dissapear completely on many notebook computers. People just aren't using them.
I wasn't modded flaimbait, it was some other guy =) I just agreed with him.
As far as screen refresh, it depends. If your screen refreshes at 75Hz, but the video is 30FPS, then you'll get some flicker because the refresh doesn't sync with the frame rate. However, if your refresh is 60Hz and the video is still 30FPS, it'll be nice and smooth. I know, it's not a big deal, but it is noticable.
It's been said that video FPS and Refresh rates are not as sensitive as video game refreshes, and I do agree to a point - mostly because the movement in movies is usually not quite as full of motion as that of a video game. And when it is, there's motion blur effects and other camera optical artifacts that tend to mask it.
Then you get marked as flaimbait. I don't get the mods sometimes.
Even after you sift through the terrible post, which he tried to correct apparently, I have to dissagree that you can't notice the difference between 30FPS and something higher. And I'm talking about FPS, not refresh.
You go to the movies and watch the screen when they pan. You can see how jerky it is. You notice it on TV too. And try to play a video game at 30FPS, it's terrible. (Ohh, and don't try to tell me that console game systems are 30FPS, because they aren't they are ~60 on NTSC, interlaced of course.)
I think that strong encryption today is enough for today and the forseable future. Not to say that one shouldn't seak stronger encryption but it's not absolutely vital to the survival of our civilization.
Some people go crazy over it. They don't like computer generated keys, because they are psuedo random. They don't like 1024-bit encryption because when they are dead and buried, someone might crack the key and find out what they had for dinner last night.
I feel as though that given enough time, secrets shouldn't need to be secrets anymore. I don't want my government holding secrets from my great great grandkids.
Enough is enough... get over yourselves. Calling a properly implimented strong encryption IPSEC tunnel "insecure" makes me want to slap people.
This whole thing protects data TRANSFER, and unless you somehow keep 50 years of records in transit without storing them anywhere, Quantum encryption won't do shit to help you.
If you're someone who won't build your own gaming PC, and you don't know anyone else that can, chances are you're a kid and your mom will be buying the machine.
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No no, that's not exactly what I meant. The original post insinuated that all networks will be mesh, and that everyone would participate in the mesh. I do not see this as becoming a reality anytime soon because none of the current wireless technologies have enough bandwidth, and wired networks can't really mesh without a lot of wires =)
For ISP'ing a wireless mesh, that's a little different, since you can put some large antennas, the routes will be pre-determined, and you won't have that many of them.
"The future is mesh networking"
The distant future.. maybe. I don't see networking moving over to mesh topologies anytime soon, even if your company has some working systems.
Notice the little symbol in there we all like to call a semi-colon. A semi-colon denotes end of thought without ending the sentence.
They even devided it up on the page to make it easier for dumb people to understand. But I guess it wasn't toned down enough..
I will break it down for you.
1) You may use this software for free if you are using it for personal, non commercial use.
2) You may use this software for business, but only if you are a developer (ie no Billing Clerks or Secretaries.)
You do NOT have to be doing both, which is obvious, because you can't use something for personal use (home) and business (the office) use at the same time. You're doing one or the other.
In fact, I think that the license is pretty loose. "Unless you are a developer" is a pretty loose term. You could be developing kernels and applications, or you could be developing web pages. You could probably get away with "developing" spreadsheets.
Open Source/GPL/Etc does not make you immune to patent infringement. If Microsoft patents 1's and 0's, you won't be able to use them in your Open Source application, same as everyone else.
So sure, you can write applications free of patents with a great open source license, but you still can't write code that uses someone's patented "idea."
I think it hurts Open Source. Whereas Microsoft can purchase an expensive license to use someone's patented idea, Open Source projects can not.
I've had the unfortunate experience of working with Windows since version 3, including the lovely 3.11 for workgroups, into NT3, the various iterations of NT4 including Terminal Server, etc, into Windows server 2003 and Windows XP. I still have PC Computing magazines that covered 98% DOS apps and short sidebars about Windows 2.0. All I'm trying to convey here is that I have a boatload of experience troubleshooting Windows. In fact, I worked for one year doing NT4 Server support and two years doing Exchange support (phone support) for Microsoft.
If there's a bug, chances are I've come across it at one time or another.
Maybe I could have dug through the registry and ripped out or corrected whatever the problems were that caused me anguish, but I shouldn't have to do that after replacing hardware. Sure, maybe the old AGP drivers didn't get switched over properly, but damned if I'm going to spend six hours trying to figure out how to remove the old and get windows to use the new drivers. And then, who's to say I won't encounter problems in the future?
I will admit that Windows XP is a lot better at this kind of stuff then it's predicesors. Unfortunately, windows is still Windows, registry fiasco and all. It's not uncommon to have a 25MB registry with a normal amount of software installed!
What does a printer have to do with a mainboard? Last I checked, printers connect to the mainboard via LPT or USB. Replace the mainboard and Windows will likely remove the printer, to detect it on the new USB bus/LPT port. Usb controllers are on the mainboard unless you have an old computer.
Changing drivers to generic ones can have adverse effects. If I tell Windows to use the Generic VGA driver instead of the ATI or nVidia drivers, the next time windows detects the hardware it will sometimes attempt to load the same driver even if I don't want it to. Or, it will consider the hardware static and it sometimes won't properly remove the hardware when it's unplugged.
I've been a victim of the recession and I've been thrown into desktop support for the last 10 months. If you use a single PC or only a few, Windows XP can seem pretty darned stable and good. If you start supporting hundreds of machines, you start to see how bad it really is.
"That's funny; I recently upgraded my mobo to an entirely different chipset (from VIA to nVidia) and I am not having any problems (same install, no repairs, no errors)."
That's funny, I've done the same thing on numerous machines and on each and every one there's always been some annoying side-effect that you can't work around and you have to reinstall anyways. Problems like not being able to install video drivers, or a printer, or install some application, have all happened to me after major system (Mainboard) upgrades.
You don't work on enough PC's, apparently. Registry corruption is ramapant; it doesn't have to be the obvious "Your registry is bad. Re-Install." problems either, it can be something as simple as any program changing a few things around to suit it's own needs. Unfortunately it changed something that breaks something else and it's not obvious what caused the problem since you don't notice it for three weeks.
Almost every application has full access to the registry. How secure is that? And yes, I know, you can limit user access and that will help while RUNNING the software, but the software needs to be installed as an administrator.
A great deal of spyware is installed without user intervention, without a dialogue, simply by using some new (or old) Internet Explorer weakness. There's been countless security patches from Microsoft to address these issues but it seems likely to me that there's many, many others.
The fact that UNIX systems don't have Internet Explorer is technically superior to me.
I run Mozilla on my Linux and Windows boxes. One good thing is that I can bring in my settings and such no matter what OS I run, but also that I have no more problems with spyware on my windows machines.
So, it's not necessarily Windows itself, it's Internet Explorer. However, the windows platform itself isn't very secure and the registry is such a disaster that it makes a good home for Spyware, with IE as the delivery method.
The slower the machine, the more RAM you need to make up for things like slower disk IO and such.
A Pentium III 600 with 512MB will perform just as well or better then a Pentium 4 2Ghz with the 128MB that many computers are still sold with, on everyday tasks like web browsing, grabbing pictures from digital cameras, e-mail, etc. Basically everything but new games.
The Athlon64/Opteron have built in thermal protection like the Pentium 4.
Gentoo is what it is. I like it, I use it. It works for me. I like how easy updating it and installing new software is. Other people like it for other reasons, or just to (think they are) cool.
The niche finds the distribution, rather then the other way around. Linux is really awesome like that, you can use it for whatever you want to use it for.
You can put Mandrake on all your servers and Redhat on all your workstations if you want to. You can put Gentoo on the firewalls and SuSE on the mail server. Whatever you want.
So is motor oil and about a thousand other things you keep around the house every day.
You apparently have no idea what you're talking about.
I've experienced similar issues on a few machines I run XP on, and all of them have at least 1GB of ram, and all of them have the page file statically set from 2GB - 4GB.
When Windows XP automatically resizes the page file, it TELLS you, so I don't think it's happening without people knowing it..
Sometimes I just run low on available memory, and then Windows XP goes to shit, whereas when it happens to my Linux boxes, they don't.
It's so true that college doesn't teach you real skills, when it comes to most lines of work.
It's pretty funny, how easy to point out all the snobs that went to school and spend god knows how much money and god knows how much time getting all the degrees. All you have to look for is "College isn't about LEARNING, it's about proving you can stay until the end." HOLY FUCKING SHIT I can't believe people BELIEVE THAT SHIT.
School is supposed to TEACH you something, it's not supposed to be a proving ground for how long you can afford to attend. Because we all know, every one of us, that the #1 way to get a MS or PhD is to have rich parents. It's not about being smart.
The whole system is designed to keep the system itself running. College degrees are not about educating, they are about keeping the schools in business. Period.
I'm not saying that SOME people don't manage to get something good from schools, and make a difference in the world. But just as many people WITHOUT degrees make a difference too.
Just about the only thing you need to go to school for years for is to become a doctor or surgeon. Medical schools are set apart from the rest, you actually go there to learn, not just prove you take good notes for 8 years. (unfortunately, the general rule of $$$ still applies..)
Technically, it wasn't an acronym either, because an acronym is supposed to be a word created from the initial letters. You know, like ANSI and ASCII. MSSQL isn't an acronym because you can't pronounce it.
Maybe he meant "MSSAP" as in "Miss Hap" but I don't think he's that whitty.
" The Great Plains (now Microsoft CRM) does not have a ton of visibility yet."
Ohh, it's got tons of visibility - to every technition that's ever had to go within 20 feet of that peice of shit.
It was a peice of shit when it was just plain old Great Plains, now it's a peice of shit with a Microsoft sticker on it.
They thought they could do what they did with Visio, but Visio was actually a good product to begin with.
Apparently they are doing a major rewrite of the whole thing, so maybe it will suck a little less when they are done but it's just terrible, terrible software so I doubt even 2.0 will be worth a crap.
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Yea. I avoid keyboards with windows keys, which is to say I use old keyboards. But they still work, after 8 years, and I love to type on them. I have this old Wang keyboard from where my mother used to work, and it has all these extra keys across the top for when you were using the mainframe terminal emulator. They thing is a tank. It's heavy and it's very comfortable to use.
I go to my friends house from time to time and use his keyboards, which have windows keys. God, I was hitting them so much that I actually just popped them off the keyboard. I got a little tired of getting disconnected from my game because I tapped the wrong key.
I've never found the windows keys to be useful anyways, even when the computers at work have them. Lately, I've been seeing the windows keys get smaller and smaller, and even dissapear completely on many notebook computers. People just aren't using them.
I wasn't modded flaimbait, it was some other guy =) I just agreed with him.
As far as screen refresh, it depends. If your screen refreshes at 75Hz, but the video is 30FPS, then you'll get some flicker because the refresh doesn't sync with the frame rate. However, if your refresh is 60Hz and the video is still 30FPS, it'll be nice and smooth. I know, it's not a big deal, but it is noticable.
It's been said that video FPS and Refresh rates are not as sensitive as video game refreshes, and I do agree to a point - mostly because the movement in movies is usually not quite as full of motion as that of a video game. And when it is, there's motion blur effects and other camera optical artifacts that tend to mask it.
Then you get marked as flaimbait. I don't get the mods sometimes.
Even after you sift through the terrible post, which he tried to correct apparently, I have to dissagree that you can't notice the difference between 30FPS and something higher. And I'm talking about FPS, not refresh.
You go to the movies and watch the screen when they pan. You can see how jerky it is. You notice it on TV too. And try to play a video game at 30FPS, it's terrible. (Ohh, and don't try to tell me that console game systems are 30FPS, because they aren't they are ~60 on NTSC, interlaced of course.)
I think that strong encryption today is enough for today and the forseable future. Not to say that one shouldn't seak stronger encryption but it's not absolutely vital to the survival of our civilization.
Some people go crazy over it. They don't like computer generated keys, because they are psuedo random. They don't like 1024-bit encryption because when they are dead and buried, someone might crack the key and find out what they had for dinner last night.
I feel as though that given enough time, secrets shouldn't need to be secrets anymore. I don't want my government holding secrets from my great great grandkids.
Enough is enough... get over yourselves. Calling a properly implimented strong encryption IPSEC tunnel "insecure" makes me want to slap people.
You musn't build many computers, because they take about 15 minutes to put together. Another hour to completely install the OS and anything else.
If your hour and fifteen minutes is worth the extra $2500, then I want your job.
This whole thing protects data TRANSFER, and unless you somehow keep 50 years of records in transit without storing them anywhere, Quantum encryption won't do shit to help you.
"there are already three times as many phones in use as personal computers."
No kidding! This has always been the case. Have PC's ever actually out numbered phones?
If you're someone who won't build your own gaming PC, and you don't know anyone else that can, chances are you're a kid and your mom will be buying the machine.
And she'll probably buy a Dell or HP.
Where?
I've never seen this strange breed of "gamer" you speak of.