1) Faster reads
2) Lower power
3) Quieter
4) Cooler
That samsung is producing these at all indicates that there is a demand for them. I think in 5 years, a majority of HDs sold will be SSD.
You missed the recent article here that discussed SSD's actually using more power since they're always in full on mode so to speak while spinning disks only are in full on mode when the disk needs to be spun
And seriously, even with all of them you're talking 10-15MB in a world where 4GB DDR2 costs 60-65$. It was this mentality that brought us Vista. Seriously folks, just because the RAM is there and the CPU is there does not mean you should be extra wasteful. This is why computers are following Moore's Law but not really getting any faster.
I actually got surveyed and I'm one of the people that gave Google Checkout a poor rating. I had used it about 10 times over the holidays to take advantage of the promotions. I purchased Zelda for the Wii from Buy.com. Google sent me an e-mail the very next day saying the item had shipped but clearly Buy.com's site said the item was "Sent to Warehouse" for a over a week. I finally had it and canceled the item, to which I received a very quick e-mail saying I can't cancel shipped items. Checked the status and still "Sent to Warehouse", about 2hrs later it finally send "Shipped" and they sent me an e-mail saying it had shipped... A bit shady on Buy.com's part...
Well now the story takes a downhill turn. I live in a brand new section of a previously built complex. The UPS driver had NO idea where my building was and returned it to Buy.com saying the address was wrong. Buy.com received it as can be clearly seen on the UPS tracking page. I contacted them for a refund, for which they told me I needed an RMA number. It took 3 back and forths for them to understand the issue. Well almost 2 weeks went by before I realized that I didn't have my money refunded to me. So I contacted Buy.com (all of this is via Google Checkout's Contact Buyer), to which they could only tell me they were looking into the issue. So I had enough and contacted Google through their ONLY means of contact... a crappy interface web form. They sent me an e-mail which just had my rant to Google then a copy of the Google Receipt and it was sent to Buy.com's plain support page. This got ignored for a day so I did it again... and again... every day of the week. NEVER got anything else from Google. Buy.com finally wrote me an e-mail saying my case had been already escalated, to calm down and they'd contact me when they had an answer. A few more days went by and Google sent me a survey for how they did to resolve my issue. Which I told them was terrible. Buy.com never refunded me a dime after 3 weeks of receiving the product back. I printed everything out, went to the bank and issued a charge back. Google then had the nerve to send me an e-mail threatening me to charge my card for ALL promo's I had gotten on ALL my orders. THEN this survey came along... Now you can guess why I gave them a poor rating.
The version number in the topic is STILL wrong... first it was 2.0 and we all commented... now it's 0.2. MythTV 0.2 is several years old. They're on MythTV 0.20. Are you guys publish an article about Verizon being terrible with numbers?
Kudos to the Slashdot editors that totally screwed up the version... And for arguments sake, I hope this is not MythTV 0.20, I hope it's 0.20-fixes. Since the Myth devs never put out a release that's worth anything all of us distro packagers have to constantly keep on top of all the patches that are necessary to actually make MythTV function.
Nothing to see here... This is nothing newer then KnoppMyth but in a Fedora shell.
Look kids! This is why we don't write stuff in Microsoft Excel and then publish it on a website... Cause it looks like that. *points at the Plextor link in parent*
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This isn't necessary correct. You can still install from stage1 and stage2, it just won't be documented directly in the Install Doc because of too many users that were a bit too clueless at Linux attempting to do a stage1 install. Also it reduces the confusion and complexity for first-timers.
Also considering the age of the packages found in all the stage tarballs all of them have been replaced by newer versions so when you install Gentoo you will actually recompile everything from source.
We probably will see a bunch of shared sourced or open sourced Microsoft apps in the next few years but there are a couple of considerations that must first be evaluated. First Microsoft is a large corporate entity with a certain culture, that culture needs to be changed. We're slowly seeing the changes today. You can see this when a guy at the bottom contributes to an open source project and his boss' boss' boss' boss' boss goes on record with the media saying that "Open Source kills babies". The evolution in their corporate culture is slowly happening but stills needs some time to trickle upwards. Right now the execs see open source as the new catch phrase and are trying to show off that they know what it is and they are catering to customers. (i.e. the hiring of Daniel Robbins, of Gentoo Linux fame, for Linux projects).
Secondly they need to go through a massive code review for two reasons primarily because the legal team knows Microsoft is everyone's favorite (easiest??) target for a lawsuit (this doesn't mean a victory... just to initiate). They need to know where every single line of code came from and what are their rights to that code before they can open the code up. Because you know the first thing the lawyers will do is try to find someway to sue them for stealing source code. They need to guard themselves against "SCO vs IBM" type lawsuits.
The other reason they need to complete this code review is because they need to track down and fix as many of the security holes in their software that they can do in a reasonable amount of time. Otherwise this code will be used to ferret out security holes and we will see a new wave of security issues like no one has seen before, because admit it, Microsft products do run on the majority of machines today. The media will portray this as Microsoft handed the hackers the tools and Microsoft will see a lot of their business dry up because companies won't know if they are safe if they go with Microsoft. Once they release this cleaned up code, they will be able to smuggly throw it in everyone's face saying "See we're not so bad after all."
So I'm a student at the University of Florida so I decided to look my school up. First it says we have just over 33,000 students which might have been true almost 10 years ago but now our admissions site and campus newspaper says we're around 47,000. Next untruth, it says we have only 612 computers. I'm sitting in a computer lab with 600 computers, and this is the small computer lab in this building... There's a much bigger one upstairs. It says that we don't have any streaming video or audio classes online. Funny, I'm watching a class in Real Player right now. And it also says that computers aren't required for incoming freshmen, a quick look on the admissions website says they are.
So.... Forbes didn't really check their info about all the schools prior to do thing survey.
I'm unimpressed. University of Florida has a system like this, called ICARUS, in place for a almost a year now, the program began mid-May in beta and full roll out in June 2003.
But how do I feel about ICARUS? When there's a will there's a way, that's what I say. It's a pain but hey. As an RA I get people continually banging on my door about no internet connection problems. It was HORRIBLE the first two weeks when people were moving in cause NO ONE knows what they have on their computers. Kids would come, plug in their computers and within 30 seconds their port would be killed and they needed to call the Help Desk. Help Desk was overloaded with calls but they'd finally get their ports on again and they know how to clean their machine (or didn't care) and BAM! kicked off again. AND WHO DO YOU THINK THEY COMPLAINED TO!?
If you all remember the slashdot story about Apache's sudden rise because a bunch of Domain Name Parkers switched from IIS to Apache when in 2002 they had switched from Apache to IIS. Here's a link to the story link
I just don't see this as that significant because of that.
So here's the low down on this program. As a RA (Resident Assistant) on UF's campus and also being somewhat of a knowledgable Linux user (read: former Gentoo dev).
Basically they port scan you. If you've accidently left WinXP's default Shared Doc's folder shared or anything shared then they say in the Housing Agreement you sign that they can log in and look at anything you have openly shared.
Now just cause they know people will run their own firewalls to block them out and then still run whatever apps they want.. they require you to leave certain ports and accept certain packets (i.e. ping, netbios stuff, etc).
The message that they pop up on your screen is actually a net send message.
In actually application, it has slowed down the max speeds of the network and latency is about the same. It does kick you offline for very short periods (long enough for IRC to reset sometimes and GAIM to definitely have to reconnect)
Here's a direct quote from the article... "The cracks are not in the propellant lines themselves, Hartsfield said."
Once again, the poster is either not reading the article or adding some sensationalism.
Ever notice when you try to validate/. it returns forbidden.... what are they trying to hide? That their site is designed for IE and they're horribly not in compliance?
Since a similar article like this was posted to/. before and I brought up the same point I'll bring it up again. Where in the article did they state that the FBI agents came in with guns? It's just sensationalism and it does not belong. Now I know someone is going to claim that it's SOP for agents to bust in with guns however it is not. Instead of just rewriting my whole rant here... I'll just add a link to my previous/. comment...
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=44074&cid=4590 690
-Cardoe
No where in the ROE (Rules of Engagement) is it SOP (Standard Operation Procedure) to serve indictments with guns drawn.
They (being the two agents who went) knocked on the door like gentlemen (or ladies), announced who they were, produced badges, said they had court documents and a search warrent which specified they could take a cable modem and a computer, they then went into the house and disconnected the equipment and carried it out to their Crown Vic and put it in the trunk, and lastly they told they person to have a good day and left.
Stop sensationalizing everything and making our government out to be the bad guy. The gov't and it's agencies are here to serve and protect America and its citizens. There has hardly been any of these kinds of "abuses" and if they were you'd see it on the front page of every paper and every politican would be screaming for reform. Before you accuse the gov't of this you need to get your facts straight. Don't quote me on these numbers but last time I saw 90% of cops don't ever draw their guns in their careers and 98% never fire their guns in their careers.
Not just Europeans. The server is super slow from the East Coast of the US. traceroute's have consistantly shown it 90ms to 120ms while the current server gives 30-40ms. It will also take almost 30-45 sec to load a page vs the snappy 15 sec. Definetely NOT a good move
Well I go to UF... considering Computer Engineering majors got free full version software from a handful of big name software companies (Microsoft, Macromedia, to name two) this year. That could be the reason for the drop.:) Also could be the fact that it's Spring Break right now for us so there's only like 1 person up there downloading warez.
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SSD does have significant perceived benefits;
1) Faster reads 2) Lower power 3) Quieter 4) Cooler
That samsung is producing these at all indicates that there is a demand for them. I think in 5 years, a majority of HDs sold will be SSD.
You missed the recent article here that discussed SSD's actually using more power since they're always in full on mode so to speak while spinning disks only are in full on mode when the disk needs to be spun
I actually got surveyed and I'm one of the people that gave Google Checkout a poor rating. I had used it about 10 times over the holidays to take advantage of the promotions. I purchased Zelda for the Wii from Buy.com. Google sent me an e-mail the very next day saying the item had shipped but clearly Buy.com's site said the item was "Sent to Warehouse" for a over a week. I finally had it and canceled the item, to which I received a very quick e-mail saying I can't cancel shipped items. Checked the status and still "Sent to Warehouse", about 2hrs later it finally send "Shipped" and they sent me an e-mail saying it had shipped... A bit shady on Buy.com's part... Well now the story takes a downhill turn. I live in a brand new section of a previously built complex. The UPS driver had NO idea where my building was and returned it to Buy.com saying the address was wrong. Buy.com received it as can be clearly seen on the UPS tracking page. I contacted them for a refund, for which they told me I needed an RMA number. It took 3 back and forths for them to understand the issue. Well almost 2 weeks went by before I realized that I didn't have my money refunded to me. So I contacted Buy.com (all of this is via Google Checkout's Contact Buyer), to which they could only tell me they were looking into the issue. So I had enough and contacted Google through their ONLY means of contact... a crappy interface web form. They sent me an e-mail which just had my rant to Google then a copy of the Google Receipt and it was sent to Buy.com's plain support page. This got ignored for a day so I did it again... and again... every day of the week. NEVER got anything else from Google. Buy.com finally wrote me an e-mail saying my case had been already escalated, to calm down and they'd contact me when they had an answer. A few more days went by and Google sent me a survey for how they did to resolve my issue. Which I told them was terrible. Buy.com never refunded me a dime after 3 weeks of receiving the product back. I printed everything out, went to the bank and issued a charge back. Google then had the nerve to send me an e-mail threatening me to charge my card for ALL promo's I had gotten on ALL my orders. THEN this survey came along... Now you can guess why I gave them a poor rating.
The version number in the topic is STILL wrong... first it was 2.0 and we all commented... now it's 0.2. MythTV 0.2 is several years old. They're on MythTV 0.20. Are you guys publish an article about Verizon being terrible with numbers?
Kudos to the Slashdot editors that totally screwed up the version... And for arguments sake, I hope this is not MythTV 0.20, I hope it's 0.20-fixes. Since the Myth devs never put out a release that's worth anything all of us distro packagers have to constantly keep on top of all the patches that are necessary to actually make MythTV function.
Nothing to see here... This is nothing newer then KnoppMyth but in a Fedora shell.
Look kids! This is why we don't write stuff in Microsoft Excel and then publish it on a website... Cause it looks like that. *points at the Plextor link in parent*
Also considering the age of the packages found in all the stage tarballs all of them have been replaced by newer versions so when you install Gentoo you will actually recompile everything from source.
Secondly they need to go through a massive code review for two reasons primarily because the legal team knows Microsoft is everyone's favorite (easiest??) target for a lawsuit (this doesn't mean a victory... just to initiate). They need to know where every single line of code came from and what are their rights to that code before they can open the code up. Because you know the first thing the lawyers will do is try to find someway to sue them for stealing source code. They need to guard themselves against "SCO vs IBM" type lawsuits.
The other reason they need to complete this code review is because they need to track down and fix as many of the security holes in their software that they can do in a reasonable amount of time. Otherwise this code will be used to ferret out security holes and we will see a new wave of security issues like no one has seen before, because admit it, Microsft products do run on the majority of machines today. The media will portray this as Microsoft handed the hackers the tools and Microsoft will see a lot of their business dry up because companies won't know if they are safe if they go with Microsoft. Once they release this cleaned up code, they will be able to smuggly throw it in everyone's face saying "See we're not so bad after all."
Now I know I'm going to get smacked down for this... But seriously... some of the Ask Slashdot sounds like Ask Google.
So.... Forbes didn't really check their info about all the schools prior to do thing survey.
Friendly News Release
ICARUS FAQ (check out question #12)
A news story covering ICARUS
And lastly, The Slashdot story covering it.
But how do I feel about ICARUS? When there's a will there's a way, that's what I say. It's a pain but hey. As an RA I get people continually banging on my door about no internet connection problems. It was HORRIBLE the first two weeks when people were moving in cause NO ONE knows what they have on their computers. Kids would come, plug in their computers and within 30 seconds their port would be killed and they needed to call the Help Desk. Help Desk was overloaded with calls but they'd finally get their ports on again and they know how to clean their machine (or didn't care) and BAM! kicked off again. AND WHO DO YOU THINK THEY COMPLAINED TO!?
ICARUS = devil
I just don't see this as that significant because of that.
My 2 cents.
So here's the low down on this program. As a RA (Resident Assistant) on UF's campus and also being somewhat of a knowledgable Linux user (read: former Gentoo dev).
Basically they port scan you. If you've accidently left WinXP's default Shared Doc's folder shared or anything shared then they say in the Housing Agreement you sign that they can log in and look at anything you have openly shared.
Now just cause they know people will run their own firewalls to block them out and then still run whatever apps they want.. they require you to leave certain ports and accept certain packets (i.e. ping, netbios stuff, etc).
The message that they pop up on your screen is actually a net send message.
In actually application, it has slowed down the max speeds of the network and latency is about the same. It does kick you offline for very short periods (long enough for IRC to reset sometimes and GAIM to definitely have to reconnect)
Here's a direct quote from the article... "The cracks are not in the propellant lines themselves, Hartsfield said." Once again, the poster is either not reading the article or adding some sensationalism.
Ever notice when you try to validate /. it returns forbidden.... what are they trying to hide? That their site is designed for IE and they're horribly not in compliance?
There's something a bit better out.. cause it's cheaper and only 1 chip big... It's made bay NetMedia and called SitePlayer. www.siteplayer.com
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=44074&cid=4590 690
The link was oddly.
Since a similar article like this was posted to /. before and I brought up the same point I'll bring it up again. Where in the article did they state that the FBI agents came in with guns? It's just sensationalism and it does not belong. Now I know someone is going to claim that it's SOP for agents to bust in with guns however it is not. Instead of just rewriting my whole rant here... I'll just add a link to my previous /. comment...
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=44074&cid=4590 690
-Cardoe
No where in the ROE (Rules of Engagement) is it SOP (Standard Operation Procedure) to serve indictments with guns drawn.
They (being the two agents who went) knocked on the door like gentlemen (or ladies), announced who they were, produced badges, said they had court documents and a search warrent which specified they could take a cable modem and a computer, they then went into the house and disconnected the equipment and carried it out to their Crown Vic and put it in the trunk, and lastly they told they person to have a good day and left.
Stop sensationalizing everything and making our government out to be the bad guy. The gov't and it's agencies are here to serve and protect America and its citizens. There has hardly been any of these kinds of "abuses" and if they were you'd see it on the front page of every paper and every politican would be screaming for reform. Before you accuse the gov't of this you need to get your facts straight. Don't quote me on these numbers but last time I saw 90% of cops don't ever draw their guns in their careers and 98% never fire their guns in their careers.
Not just Europeans. The server is super slow from the East Coast of the US. traceroute's have consistantly shown it 90ms to 120ms while the current server gives 30-40ms. It will also take almost 30-45 sec to load a page vs the snappy 15 sec. Definetely NOT a good move
Well I go to UF... considering Computer Engineering majors got free full version software from a handful of big name software companies (Microsoft, Macromedia, to name two) this year. That could be the reason for the drop. :) Also could be the fact that it's Spring Break right now for us so there's only like 1 person up there downloading warez.