Actually many P4 machines have RD-RAM or DDR-RAM. PC2100 runs at 266mhz hence the "double data rate" SDRAM name, PC133 x 2 = PC2100 altough many people now use PC2700 or DDR333 RAM. RAM size isnot the main issue here anyway. If bandwidth from the RAM to the CPU doesn't increase fast then on chip cache is going to have to get larger. If chip makers have to cram in more cache they dont have room to push clock rates and new features such as "hyper-threading". RAM has gotten large and cheap enough so that it will not be a problem in most new computers. 2GB RAM in the future wont matter if the CPU cant run a complex enough program to use it all.
Personally i do agree that we need to support Mandrake right now but i dont think they really need it that bad. I know this situation is enough to get me to finally join mandrake club after leeching ISO's and lovin' em. Buying stock is not the best idea becuase it can cause you to get screwed out of money you should normally expect a return on. The mandrake club is the best because you know that your money is gone and you know what your getting for it.
The key that most people aren't realizing is that MandrakeSoft didn't lose money off selling the OS. In fact they are making good money off the OS and club memberships. They lost money on their e-learning business. This unbalanced their bank account and all they need is what they are doing. They are going through a restructuring bankruptcy. Once they have cut out some of the bad investments they made they will be right back. They aren't going anywhere, they are just trying to get back to making money.
Im sorry but oyu aren't that casual user even when you check your email, browse the web, or use AIM. As someone who understands linux your use of the OS will be much different than someone who doesn't. Personally i like oyu understand the system but wheni try to show people around linux they use it in much different ways. Linux is still at a point where it wonk just always work. It wont usually crash such as windows but it also requirs more knowledge just to get it to run. It seems to me to be very easy to jsut check email under linux and at first i assumed anyone could do it untill i saw people try. They have difficulty and it made me realize no matter what i wont see a computer just like any casual user.
I know i would be redundant if i just posted "i never liked Lindows anyway" but this is how i feel. They pulled some sneaky BS moves and they are being called on it. They were going to have a "vendor neutral" conferance and then after getting everyone's support tried to make it like a Lindows pimping session. What they did was clearly sneaky and desktoplinux.com called them on it and i expect most of the other supporters will too. This is going to cause problems for Lindows and like i said "i never liked Lindows anyway".
The process of locating bad sectors is done dynamically. Bad sectors just appear after manufacturing and all kinds of things happen before it gets to you. A modern drive is made with "extra" space where it translated bad sectors to so that you dont feel conned by losing data space. Personally i would rather have that extra space and deal with the bad sectors since not all of the "extra" space is taken BUT because of the marketing of hard drives i wont ever get to see that happen.
Im sorry but this is kind of your fault for not thinking about this before hand. Users of broken computers will never be able to fully anticipate what is going to happen to their computer or even why it will happen. As an admin you need to be ready for their lack of knowledge. First of all whenever you ghost a computer that had important files on it EVEN IF it has been "backed up" you should do your own backup. Take the hard drive out and copy off whatever you can.
Also if YOU didn't notice that there were two hard drives and one was empty then maybe you need to be a little more observant of the computer your working on. I never trust what anyone tells me about their broken computer. Whenever i go to replace something like RAM i get ready to see all different kinds. No matter how sure someone is about their computer they are many times still wrong and its your job to not be stopped up by this.
Assuming a DNA sample is not old or degraded too much you can tell between identical twins. Twins have the same genes but not the same DNA. Same thing with clones. A clone would not be exactly the same... there are many ways to tell the differance between the two.
Even if i do not download any real or fake copyrigh5ted material it still costs me money. My ISP has to pay for all that bandwidth that is being used and they also pay for lawers to protect themselves against being sued by the RIAA/MPAA. I am the one who pays the everything they spend their money on.
My ISP spends huge amount of bandwidth on trading fake files. Im sure they also spend money on lawyers from taking shit from the RIAA/MPAA. I am the one who has to pay for all of these extra costs. Whether or not these companies are breaking the law or not is debatable but i know that they are causing me problems and i would like to fight back in a legal way.
Although the editors are under no obligation to avoid posting dupes i disliek em as much as anyone else. If at my job i did a task i have to do regularly after it had just been done i would get in trouble. In a capitalist system like ours we should be going to something better than slashdot if we are unhappy but apparently nobody cares enough to change anything.
I have bee considering an idea to fight back against their bullshit. The fake music files spreading around have wasted a lot of bandwidth for a lot of people. I know people with fast connections who want to share files but end up wasting their time with fake files. What if someone setup a site with a list of checksums for files that were known to be not fake? You could check a file before you download against a known good database and then the fake files would dissapear. It would be a lot of work check each song but i think its the only way we cant be pushed around by these companies. Although actual piracy is illegal and debatably immoral thats not the most important thing here. I have a problem with companies wastiong recources of mine and my ISP's with their bandwidth and legal consultation fees. This makes me have to pay more whether or not i engage in trading the copyrighted music.
This lack of good reviewing makes me upset. Although there ar good sites out there its not a good situation untill i can read several well written reviews of one product on different sites. As a 17 year old student of High School i can understand that i am not the best person to review this hardware so i dont do it. If i want someone who doesn't know anything to tell me about computers i would ask almost any kid who has a computer in my school. In my science classes they have always forced us to use the scientific process and now i understand why. If only these review sites would use some type of controlled process to evaluate their hardware i would trust them much more.
This router, in fact, is not actually a wireless router. It is a wired router with wireless ability added in using external hardware. I was not pleased with this, it felt like a hack of their wired router rather than a router designed with wirless in mind.
Wow, what an uninformed reviewer. When the reviewer noticed that the router had a PCMCIA slot in the back where a card plugs in to give it the wireless abilities he got scared and thought it was low quality. If you open up many other wireless routers you will find the same thing only you dont have the option to switch in a better card. Any home access point will basically be a wires router with a PCMCIA card with a coax cable running to the external antannea. Personally i would prefer it if on an AP gave me the option of switching out the card to one with a better antannea or if it broke.
Its really sad to see the current situation of internet review sites. Most of them are done by people with a bit of knowledge about computer but not much more than anyone else. The reviewer really should give more than just the opinion of any other end user. I realize that end users need to be heard otherwise the real consumer would not know what to expect but im tired of sites slamming or paising hardware because they dont know how good or bad it really is.
I have no trouble installing Mandrake 8.x or 9.x off one CD. All you need is CD #1 and your fine. It wont have the entire suite of apps that you might want but if you have your own choice of apps already why use their's? Personally i download the extra CDs and its not a problem at all. Most of the time all the CDs sit in a case waiting to be put into a new computer or if i choose to load some software off the CD.
Its KIND OF that cheap. When your buying thousands of copies of windows your going to hafta pay for more than the OS license. Your going to have to hire a few MCSEs to make sure it all works right. How often does any one given Windows computer break down for you and think of that times how many computers some companies run. Microsoft makes a lot of money selling off support. Office is their big money maker but they also have many things like certification and sending out tech to fix comps which is the real way they make money off the OS part of their company.
The Windows OS itself isn't vulnerable. Vunerabilities HAVE been found though for Windows drivers of certain manufactuers. One particular company can have vulnerabilities for many different OS's. When a company writes drivers for different OS's such as Windows and Linux they can share some of the code. If that code is vulnerable then all of the drivers are also vulnerable. This is not an OS issue at all.
Exploitable drivers have been found for Windows, Linux, NetBSD, and a few other proprietary OS's which i would assume could mean something like Mac or Novell or OS/2... who knows really.
Please dont say that, ouch my head. Dont say its quite simple then say something i still dont understand. One of the parents said that polarization is involved but saying its what absorbs the light still means nothing new to me.
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AS funny as this is it actually wouldn't work in court. You cant say "if you do **** then you owe us a million dollars". Many of these:you may not link to us you may not read this from a machine with a hard drive or a cd burner or any form of non-volatile memory. Its like if someone says "by stepping into my store you are required to buy $100 worth of something. There are many posted requirments that would be throw own. Many of these conditions have to be agreed to.
Just great. All i need is something that disconnects more often than an AOL dialup account. Think of this; your sitting there trying to load your email, a car comes by at 35 mph and you get a few k of data... you wait and wait for antoher car to finally be able to finish the download. I dont think that AP's in a car would do much unless you had a laptop in the back seat but why not have a cat-5 connection right on the door of the car or near the cup holder? Also when i buy a car i know im not going to want to spend any extra on something like this. Im sure many other people wont pay for this and for it to be very cool you would need lots of people to get it.
I think this is a good thing and i think that this should be released. The thing i dont know is if it is really going to make a big difference. I hear a lot about sources being opened which is good but a lot of it is not worth very much. Most of the time when this type of things happens the code is still usable but is not much of a big help to many people.
Ok first of all you need to read a bit more about intellectual property is something that is created but does not exist physically. The DNS system is a service that is given to you and payed for by the registrants. Think of DNS like this; your computer asks a DNS server how to find "slashdot.org", the server checks to find the actuall address of the web server and gives it to you, your computer then communicates to the web server using its address. Its like those "find someone online" websites. They simply tell you what the address to "John Doe" is. If you wanted to not use one service you could choose another.
It is very easy to have multiple DNS servers. Packets would not get lost of fragment because of another server out there. Once your computer found one em the DNS servers it would use that address... no mulitple data streams.
If you want to change your DNS server go for it. If you have a modem your computer probably gets the address automatically in which case you need to find the setting for your DNS server and put your own in there. If you have a broadband connection you may have already put in whatever your ISP told you for your DNS server or like a dialup modem it is done automatically. Either way you can change the setting very easily even under windows.
In my opinion you have no right to own and domain. A company is simply providing a service to those who ask for it to find a web server connected to a certain phrase. The problem with this is that there is basically one choice for your DNS server. The monopoly that has grown has killed anything fair. Because most people think that there is only one domain of a certain phrase available many people get in trouble when a company assumes that they are falsly claiming to be them or related to them. Of course a company like Microsoft is really going to want to obtain the microsoft.com domain from the server most people will use. If someone else got it then many people looking for Microsoft would find something else. This wouldn't be a problem if there was some competition or fair standards out there but instead we have many problems from people not understanding the system. Its not that hard but most people never have a chance to learn how the internet REALLY works.
Running Linux is how i was introduced to Linux and when i went back and read other books or talked to people who read other i am glad i went to this one first. Running Linux is for the Linux newb but not a computer newb. It expects that you understand a lot about computers in general which was not a problem for me. I have grown up on mostly DOS and windows and i have become pretty good at running these. When i finally read Running Linux i was able to follow along with all of the info without being caught up on non-linux related material. Other people i know have used Running Linux as the first book to get them into Linux and it hasen't worked so well. Most of the tmie i notice this is becuase they are more of an overall newb so they might need to take a step back. A lot of people get stopped up on info about partitioning hard drives, installing drivers, and setting up networks. I had done all of these things previously on a different OS so it wasn't a big step to learn the Linux way. When people cant even install programs in Windows they cant be expected to start troubleshooting an entire system.
I think that the Red Hat Linux 8 Bible can be good for some users but i wouldn't assume it to be there to introduce someone to everything that Red Hat does different.
I had my own plan for micro payment. Why not setup a 1-900 number. You call the number and it charges you something small ("micro" payment) like $1 and an automated machine gives you a number that you put in the website saying you have paid. I know this would get tiring if you did it for each website but i know there are a few websites i would give a buck to if it was that easy. Many sites accept donations but i dont use paypal or whatever other service they are using.
Also im sure if you used a phone line over a 1-900 number to charge it could be automated with a modem. I know it would not be fun to tie up the phone line for a few seconds but this way would require veryu little new technology and im sure people would be more willing to add $1 to a current bill than signing up for a new system to pay out money.
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Actually many P4 machines have RD-RAM or DDR-RAM. PC2100 runs at 266mhz hence the "double data rate" SDRAM name, PC133 x 2 = PC2100 altough many people now use PC2700 or DDR333 RAM. RAM size isnot the main issue here anyway. If bandwidth from the RAM to the CPU doesn't increase fast then on chip cache is going to have to get larger. If chip makers have to cram in more cache they dont have room to push clock rates and new features such as "hyper-threading". RAM has gotten large and cheap enough so that it will not be a problem in most new computers. 2GB RAM in the future wont matter if the CPU cant run a complex enough program to use it all.
Personally i do agree that we need to support Mandrake right now but i dont think they really need it that bad. I know this situation is enough to get me to finally join mandrake club after leeching ISO's and lovin' em. Buying stock is not the best idea becuase it can cause you to get screwed out of money you should normally expect a return on. The mandrake club is the best because you know that your money is gone and you know what your getting for it.
The key that most people aren't realizing is that MandrakeSoft didn't lose money off selling the OS. In fact they are making good money off the OS and club memberships. They lost money on their e-learning business. This unbalanced their bank account and all they need is what they are doing. They are going through a restructuring bankruptcy. Once they have cut out some of the bad investments they made they will be right back. They aren't going anywhere, they are just trying to get back to making money.
Im sorry but oyu aren't that casual user even when you check your email, browse the web, or use AIM. As someone who understands linux your use of the OS will be much different than someone who doesn't. Personally i like oyu understand the system but wheni try to show people around linux they use it in much different ways. Linux is still at a point where it wonk just always work. It wont usually crash such as windows but it also requirs more knowledge just to get it to run. It seems to me to be very easy to jsut check email under linux and at first i assumed anyone could do it untill i saw people try. They have difficulty and it made me realize no matter what i wont see a computer just like any casual user.
I know i would be redundant if i just posted "i never liked Lindows anyway" but this is how i feel. They pulled some sneaky BS moves and they are being called on it. They were going to have a "vendor neutral" conferance and then after getting everyone's support tried to make it like a Lindows pimping session. What they did was clearly sneaky and desktoplinux.com called them on it and i expect most of the other supporters will too. This is going to cause problems for Lindows and like i said "i never liked Lindows anyway".
The process of locating bad sectors is done dynamically. Bad sectors just appear after manufacturing and all kinds of things happen before it gets to you. A modern drive is made with "extra" space where it translated bad sectors to so that you dont feel conned by losing data space. Personally i would rather have that extra space and deal with the bad sectors since not all of the "extra" space is taken BUT because of the marketing of hard drives i wont ever get to see that happen.
Im sorry but this is kind of your fault for not thinking about this before hand. Users of broken computers will never be able to fully anticipate what is going to happen to their computer or even why it will happen. As an admin you need to be ready for their lack of knowledge. First of all whenever you ghost a computer that had important files on it EVEN IF it has been "backed up" you should do your own backup. Take the hard drive out and copy off whatever you can.
Also if YOU didn't notice that there were two hard drives and one was empty then maybe you need to be a little more observant of the computer your working on. I never trust what anyone tells me about their broken computer. Whenever i go to replace something like RAM i get ready to see all different kinds. No matter how sure someone is about their computer they are many times still wrong and its your job to not be stopped up by this.
Assuming a DNA sample is not old or degraded too much you can tell between identical twins. Twins have the same genes but not the same DNA. Same thing with clones. A clone would not be exactly the same... there are many ways to tell the differance between the two.
Even if i do not download any real or fake copyrigh5ted material it still costs me money. My ISP has to pay for all that bandwidth that is being used and they also pay for lawers to protect themselves against being sued by the RIAA/MPAA. I am the one who pays the everything they spend their money on.
My ISP spends huge amount of bandwidth on trading fake files. Im sure they also spend money on lawyers from taking shit from the RIAA/MPAA. I am the one who has to pay for all of these extra costs. Whether or not these companies are breaking the law or not is debatable but i know that they are causing me problems and i would like to fight back in a legal way.
Although the editors are under no obligation to avoid posting dupes i disliek em as much as anyone else. If at my job i did a task i have to do regularly after it had just been done i would get in trouble. In a capitalist system like ours we should be going to something better than slashdot if we are unhappy but apparently nobody cares enough to change anything.
I have bee considering an idea to fight back against their bullshit. The fake music files spreading around have wasted a lot of bandwidth for a lot of people. I know people with fast connections who want to share files but end up wasting their time with fake files. What if someone setup a site with a list of checksums for files that were known to be not fake? You could check a file before you download against a known good database and then the fake files would dissapear. It would be a lot of work check each song but i think its the only way we cant be pushed around by these companies. Although actual piracy is illegal and debatably immoral thats not the most important thing here. I have a problem with companies wastiong recources of mine and my ISP's with their bandwidth and legal consultation fees. This makes me have to pay more whether or not i engage in trading the copyrighted music.
This lack of good reviewing makes me upset. Although there ar good sites out there its not a good situation untill i can read several well written reviews of one product on different sites. As a 17 year old student of High School i can understand that i am not the best person to review this hardware so i dont do it. If i want someone who doesn't know anything to tell me about computers i would ask almost any kid who has a computer in my school. In my science classes they have always forced us to use the scientific process and now i understand why. If only these review sites would use some type of controlled process to evaluate their hardware i would trust them much more.
This router, in fact, is not actually a wireless router. It is a wired router with wireless ability added in using external hardware. I was not pleased with this, it felt like a hack of their wired router rather than a router designed with wirless in mind.
Wow, what an uninformed reviewer. When the reviewer noticed that the router had a PCMCIA slot in the back where a card plugs in to give it the wireless abilities he got scared and thought it was low quality. If you open up many other wireless routers you will find the same thing only you dont have the option to switch in a better card. Any home access point will basically be a wires router with a PCMCIA card with a coax cable running to the external antannea. Personally i would prefer it if on an AP gave me the option of switching out the card to one with a better antannea or if it broke.
Its really sad to see the current situation of internet review sites. Most of them are done by people with a bit of knowledge about computer but not much more than anyone else. The reviewer really should give more than just the opinion of any other end user. I realize that end users need to be heard otherwise the real consumer would not know what to expect but im tired of sites slamming or paising hardware because they dont know how good or bad it really is.
I have no trouble installing Mandrake 8.x or 9.x off one CD. All you need is CD #1 and your fine. It wont have the entire suite of apps that you might want but if you have your own choice of apps already why use their's? Personally i download the extra CDs and its not a problem at all. Most of the time all the CDs sit in a case waiting to be put into a new computer or if i choose to load some software off the CD.
Its KIND OF that cheap. When your buying thousands of copies of windows your going to hafta pay for more than the OS license. Your going to have to hire a few MCSEs to make sure it all works right. How often does any one given Windows computer break down for you and think of that times how many computers some companies run. Microsoft makes a lot of money selling off support. Office is their big money maker but they also have many things like certification and sending out tech to fix comps which is the real way they make money off the OS part of their company.
The Windows OS itself isn't vulnerable. Vunerabilities HAVE been found though for Windows drivers of certain manufactuers. One particular company can have vulnerabilities for many different OS's. When a company writes drivers for different OS's such as Windows and Linux they can share some of the code. If that code is vulnerable then all of the drivers are also vulnerable. This is not an OS issue at all.
Exploitable drivers have been found for Windows, Linux, NetBSD, and a few other proprietary OS's which i would assume could mean something like Mac or Novell or OS/2... who knows really.
Please dont say that, ouch my head. Dont say its quite simple then say something i still dont understand. One of the parents said that polarization is involved but saying its what absorbs the light still means nothing new to me.
AS funny as this is it actually wouldn't work in court. You cant say "if you do **** then you owe us a million dollars". Many of these :you may not link to us you may not read this from a machine with a hard drive or a cd burner or any form of non-volatile memory. Its like if someone says "by stepping into my store you are required to buy $100 worth of something. There are many posted requirments that would be throw own. Many of these conditions have to be agreed to.
Just great. All i need is something that disconnects more often than an AOL dialup account. Think of this; your sitting there trying to load your email, a car comes by at 35 mph and you get a few k of data... you wait and wait for antoher car to finally be able to finish the download. I dont think that AP's in a car would do much unless you had a laptop in the back seat but why not have a cat-5 connection right on the door of the car or near the cup holder? Also when i buy a car i know im not going to want to spend any extra on something like this. Im sure many other people wont pay for this and for it to be very cool you would need lots of people to get it.
I think this is a good thing and i think that this should be released. The thing i dont know is if it is really going to make a big difference. I hear a lot about sources being opened which is good but a lot of it is not worth very much. Most of the time when this type of things happens the code is still usable but is not much of a big help to many people.
I like to see more sour e being opened but do we need this? Aren't there better things out there that are already open source?
Ok first of all you need to read a bit more about intellectual property is something that is created but does not exist physically. The DNS system is a service that is given to you and payed for by the registrants. Think of DNS like this; your computer asks a DNS server how to find "slashdot.org", the server checks to find the actuall address of the web server and gives it to you, your computer then communicates to the web server using its address. Its like those "find someone online" websites. They simply tell you what the address to "John Doe" is. If you wanted to not use one service you could choose another.
It is very easy to have multiple DNS servers. Packets would not get lost of fragment because of another server out there. Once your computer found one em the DNS servers it would use that address... no mulitple data streams.
If you want to change your DNS server go for it. If you have a modem your computer probably gets the address automatically in which case you need to find the setting for your DNS server and put your own in there. If you have a broadband connection you may have already put in whatever your ISP told you for your DNS server or like a dialup modem it is done automatically. Either way you can change the setting very easily even under windows.
In my opinion you have no right to own and domain. A company is simply providing a service to those who ask for it to find a web server connected to a certain phrase. The problem with this is that there is basically one choice for your DNS server. The monopoly that has grown has killed anything fair. Because most people think that there is only one domain of a certain phrase available many people get in trouble when a company assumes that they are falsly claiming to be them or related to them. Of course a company like Microsoft is really going to want to obtain the microsoft.com domain from the server most people will use. If someone else got it then many people looking for Microsoft would find something else. This wouldn't be a problem if there was some competition or fair standards out there but instead we have many problems from people not understanding the system. Its not that hard but most people never have a chance to learn how the internet REALLY works.
Running Linux is how i was introduced to Linux and when i went back and read other books or talked to people who read other i am glad i went to this one first. Running Linux is for the Linux newb but not a computer newb. It expects that you understand a lot about computers in general which was not a problem for me. I have grown up on mostly DOS and windows and i have become pretty good at running these. When i finally read Running Linux i was able to follow along with all of the info without being caught up on non-linux related material. Other people i know have used Running Linux as the first book to get them into Linux and it hasen't worked so well. Most of the tmie i notice this is becuase they are more of an overall newb so they might need to take a step back. A lot of people get stopped up on info about partitioning hard drives, installing drivers, and setting up networks. I had done all of these things previously on a different OS so it wasn't a big step to learn the Linux way. When people cant even install programs in Windows they cant be expected to start troubleshooting an entire system.
I think that the Red Hat Linux 8 Bible can be good for some users but i wouldn't assume it to be there to introduce someone to everything that Red Hat does different.
I had my own plan for micro payment. Why not setup a 1-900 number. You call the number and it charges you something small ("micro" payment) like $1 and an automated machine gives you a number that you put in the website saying you have paid. I know this would get tiring if you did it for each website but i know there are a few websites i would give a buck to if it was that easy. Many sites accept donations but i dont use paypal or whatever other service they are using.
Also im sure if you used a phone line over a 1-900 number to charge it could be automated with a modem. I know it would not be fun to tie up the phone line for a few seconds but this way would require veryu little new technology and im sure people would be more willing to add $1 to a current bill than signing up for a new system to pay out money.