Of *all* the vendors I've worked with regarding driver support nVidia is easily the best. And Linux driver support is important (albeit I don't actually sweat the video drivers, but at home) to me because I build/deploy and maintain systems in a prodution environment every day. Adaptec, Supermicro, marvell, SATA RAID, SCSI adapter support, ICK. Drivers can be a real nightmare, at least give credit when credit is due.
You could wish their current (and continuing) administration to have learned (well, something) from the previous administrations mistakes. To say communism is outright bad is ignorant. Its like blaming God (and I know some people do) or religions for all the bad interpretations people make of them.
And as far as human rights go I don't think the US has a leg to stand on right now. Tiananmen Square like a big FUCK YOU to the world, to divergent ideologies, etc. Guantanamo Bay or the unintentional results due to the use of white phosphorus in Falluja aren't signs of a government suddently gone wild. We've been violating basic human rights for ages, we've just done it more diplomatically.
Sorry for the ramble. I just feel like for all our best intentions in time men will find means to erode high-standing ideals for a little bit of personal gain. We want so much.
Get a life, you use it. Even if just the occasional legitimate iso. The problem they are describing is called LEECHING. Its not unique to the world of torrents so I'm sure some of you can understand the problem easily enough.
If you leech off of something thats supposed to benefit others if they share you defeating the system. And you deserve whatever you get. Plain.Simple.
What interest is it of the banks to purchase such a product? Everything comes down to the bottom line, hows this going to help?
Just because some exec comes up with a snassy (new?) idea and starts talking it up doesn't mean it will find its home in the marketplace.
To me this sounds annoying, plain and simple. As a bank exec I'd really be scratching my head trying to figure out how my customers win (which makes me win).
Honestly, if they where writing a serious piece they'd play with something like a quad dual-core setup. Imaginary savings aside (and previously mentioned SSE snafu) this 3 cpu setup doesn't have any purpose. But I bet it sure as hell made their advertisers happy.
I would have modded you up but I see thats already been handled. We use a number of different operating systems in production environments and patching can be a nightmare. Breakage of course is one of the most obvious, but you've also got to count possible down-time (system restarts, trouble shooting), minor bug-hunting, possible software rewrites. All told a lot of big business doesn't want the boat rocked. At all.
Which all means that QA testing is important, and that takes time. With a company as big as Microsoft, with a consumer base that is as large as it is vocal, and trying to make in-road into more enterprise/server territory I can see why they might not be as snappy with fixes.
Sure with OSS a patch can be thrown out almost immediately, but thats a kind of 'fly by the seat of your pants' approach. When kernel updates break drivers support for X you might be in a world of hurt. And here's a hint: even Redhat has included bungles like this; that haven't been fixed to this day (sym53c8xx).
I'm really not trying to point fingers though (we use RHEL, my choice). Simply pointing out that at least at the enterprise level patching can cause some to break out in the cold sweats. And its hard to budget in test systems for every production system you have online. Especially if your company isn't (or is barely) at break-even.
I'd never even bothered with VLC, never understood all the hubris. Totem, Xine, Mplayer, Linux is absolutely brimming with media players that avoid the apparent pangs of the proprietary world.
That seems a stretch. I experessed my honest opinion and (not so typically) did it without disparaging anyone/anything. I guess some Slashdot readers can't tell what an open discussion is. Hint: then this probably isn't the right place for you.
Taos or Whitebox. I can't take articles that don't bring the broader picture into account seriously. When I started my current job they where 50/50 Linux/Sun. The *old* Linux systems (still in production in a post dot-com bubble surviver) were running RH9, the newer Linux boxes where (much to my dismay, as it is) running Fedora Core 3. I can't imagine this is uncommon. We've got firewall systems running Clark Connect community edition and two lonely Windows 2003 servers, only one of which we plan to keep in services.
Meta distro's like Centos (my current personal fav for corporate, seeing as the upgrade path to full-fledged RHEL is pretty much a straight shot) and even full fledged distro's like Debian, Gentoo or Slackware still get taken pretty seriously by a lot of data-centers and run a lot of enterprise systems.
Papers like these are always clearly limited by either their bias (who funding me?) or the methodology. I hope more often its B.
We'll be replacing all our older Sun hardware with Supermicro bases servers running Xeon or Opteron chips. All of these systems will be running Centos and apparently will never be counted. Unless of course you use real statistics like netcraft.com.
Everything else is just bullshit as far as I'm concerned (I'm not trying to leave the BSD's out, but thats a whole other discussion, lots of good reasons good shops are picking BSD up too).
Isn't YAST already open? I know Mandrake/Mandriva has a solid GPL commitment.
Honestly I find it sort of disappointing that more distro's haven't taken advantage of these open gifts we've been given. Fedora with its clunky up2date and yum solutions is a good example. Urpmi and Rpmdrake have solved the problems associated with rpm's ages ago. YAST is a strong second.
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Libranet Adminmenu, which is on par with Mandrake (Mandriva) Control Center and YAST
Is that every distro seems to feel it needs to reinvent the wheel. Both MDCC and YAST are fully open source, both mature products, both have been Q/A'ed and used by hundreds of thousands of users. But every distro I see seems to try either A) create its own clunky approach B) forge the niceties of configuration GUI's altogether in the old DIY approach.
This isn't the end of the world or anything, but I see configuration utilities as basic as DE's. Standarizing benifits the end user.
Of course I agree. Unfortunately the person ultimately responsible for deciding (in my case in favor of the cheaper server line that will get the job done) has to weigh the pros and the cons included in the broader picture. This year will probably be the first year we end with a profit, the right hardware wouldn't have made that possible.
Still your long-term argument holds, but try to explain that to your investors and you can see how it starts to get a little thornier.
(erons). But the price makes them a hard sell. I'll definately be keeping my eye on these things, as soon as the price points start to line up. I want to see AMD suceed in the server market, but for now (aside from Sun and a few HP systems) Xeon is still the dominant player.
is still a kludge. HT was a cheap hack to get extra performance under certain scenarios. Looks like their getting called out for it. Dual-core is the right answer, HT wasn't.
I know the whole Mhz to-do, but I'm using a 200 + Mhz Zaurus already. Is it more responsive? The battery life (as has been well illuminated) on the Zaurus + wifi is terrible so this looks interesting in that respect alone. Can the two be compared?
Ah the old-school slashdotters. Pendantic is right, you got my meaning. Milestone may be inaccurate, technically, but its being covered by mainstream press, so you can consider the cherry broken.
Anyhow, I had a shit day at work so if you want to argue you might as well pick another post.
Its a nice idea. I'm a Linux user myself and not generally in the habit of 'siding'. But lets be realistic. 1,000,000,000 users installing whatever software they like on any operating system, someone will find a way to take advantage of that. If it was Linux we'd just have 100 different solutions (down to special distro no doubt!) to fight the same problem with most of them being hobby-ware, and a few heavy guns. Just like about everything else in Linux.
Whoever the ghey naming probably wouldn't happen in Linux, unless it was maybe GNUfender or another looping acronym.
Remember, we just hit a milestone. First known virus in the wild. Vigilance is the responsibility of any savy computer user. Forget operating system.
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Of *all* the vendors I've worked with regarding driver support nVidia is easily the best. And Linux driver support is important (albeit I don't actually sweat the video drivers, but at home) to me because I build/deploy and maintain systems in a prodution environment every day. Adaptec, Supermicro, marvell, SATA RAID, SCSI adapter support, ICK. Drivers can be a real nightmare, at least give credit when credit is due.
You could wish their current (and continuing) administration to have learned (well, something) from the previous administrations mistakes. To say communism is outright bad is ignorant. Its like blaming God (and I know some people do) or religions for all the bad interpretations people make of them.
And as far as human rights go I don't think the US has a leg to stand on right now. Tiananmen Square like a big FUCK YOU to the world, to divergent ideologies, etc. Guantanamo Bay or the unintentional results due to the use of white phosphorus in Falluja aren't signs of a government suddently gone wild. We've been violating basic human rights for ages, we've just done it more diplomatically.
Sorry for the ramble. I just feel like for all our best intentions in time men will find means to erode high-standing ideals for a little bit of personal gain. We want so much.
Because it make good economic sense?
I say we just upload a Romulan virus. That'll learn em.
Get a life, you use it. Even if just the occasional legitimate iso. The problem they are describing is called LEECHING. Its not unique to the world of torrents so I'm sure some of you can understand the problem easily enough.
If you leech off of something thats supposed to benefit others if they share you defeating the system. And you deserve whatever you get. Plain.Simple.
Can't hang with that? Hang somewhere else.
What interest is it of the banks to purchase such a product? Everything comes down to the bottom line, hows this going to help?
Just because some exec comes up with a snassy (new?) idea and starts talking it up doesn't mean it will find its home in the marketplace.
To me this sounds annoying, plain and simple. As a bank exec I'd really be scratching my head trying to figure out how my customers win (which makes me win).
Honestly, if they where writing a serious piece they'd play with something like a quad dual-core setup. Imaginary savings aside (and previously mentioned SSE snafu) this 3 cpu setup doesn't have any purpose. But I bet it sure as hell made their advertisers happy.
But its apachectl graceful. The -k isn't needed. Reloads the configs without dropping active connections, very nice for production systems.
I would have modded you up but I see thats already been handled. We use a number of different operating systems in production environments and patching can be a nightmare. Breakage of course is one of the most obvious, but you've also got to count possible down-time (system restarts, trouble shooting), minor bug-hunting, possible software rewrites. All told a lot of big business doesn't want the boat rocked. At all.
Which all means that QA testing is important, and that takes time. With a company as big as Microsoft, with a consumer base that is as large as it is vocal, and trying to make in-road into more enterprise/server territory I can see why they might not be as snappy with fixes.
Sure with OSS a patch can be thrown out almost immediately, but thats a kind of 'fly by the seat of your pants' approach. When kernel updates break drivers support for X you might be in a world of hurt. And here's a hint: even Redhat has included bungles like this; that haven't been fixed to this day (sym53c8xx).
I'm really not trying to point fingers though (we use RHEL, my choice). Simply pointing out that at least at the enterprise level patching can cause some to break out in the cold sweats. And its hard to budget in test systems for every production system you have online. Especially if your company isn't (or is barely) at break-even.
based on? Besides, sensationalism is the name of the game. Journalism will be a foot-note in American histroy.
Memory problems under 4.0, sure. But major problems under either other operating system?
Sounds like maybe you need a good clean-up. Thats where I usually start when programs start acting erratically.
I'd never even bothered with VLC, never understood all the hubris. Totem, Xine, Mplayer, Linux is absolutely brimming with media players that avoid the apparent pangs of the proprietary world.
:)
That said I'll have to check it out.
That seems a stretch. I experessed my honest opinion and (not so typically) did it without disparaging anyone/anything. I guess some Slashdot readers can't tell what an open discussion is. Hint: then this probably isn't the right place for you.
Your right, its not everything. But its certainly a lot and a good indication of whats on the back-end.
Taos or Whitebox. I can't take articles that don't bring the broader picture into account seriously. When I started my current job they where 50/50 Linux/Sun. The *old* Linux systems (still in production in a post dot-com bubble surviver) were running RH9, the newer Linux boxes where (much to my dismay, as it is) running Fedora Core 3. I can't imagine this is uncommon. We've got firewall systems running Clark Connect community edition and two lonely Windows 2003 servers, only one of which we plan to keep in services.
Meta distro's like Centos (my current personal fav for corporate, seeing as the upgrade path to full-fledged RHEL is pretty much a straight shot) and even full fledged distro's like Debian, Gentoo or Slackware still get taken pretty seriously by a lot of data-centers and run a lot of enterprise systems.
Papers like these are always clearly limited by either their bias (who funding me?) or the methodology. I hope more often its B.
We'll be replacing all our older Sun hardware with Supermicro bases servers running Xeon or Opteron chips. All of these systems will be running Centos and apparently will never be counted. Unless of course you use real statistics like netcraft.com.
Everything else is just bullshit as far as I'm concerned (I'm not trying to leave the BSD's out, but thats a whole other discussion, lots of good reasons good shops are picking BSD up too).
Isn't YAST already open? I know Mandrake/Mandriva has a solid GPL commitment.
Honestly I find it sort of disappointing that more distro's haven't taken advantage of these open gifts we've been given. Fedora with its clunky up2date and yum solutions is a good example. Urpmi and Rpmdrake have solved the problems associated with rpm's ages ago. YAST is a strong second.
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Libranet Adminmenu, which is on par with Mandrake (Mandriva) Control Center and YAST
Is that every distro seems to feel it needs to reinvent the wheel. Both MDCC and YAST are fully open source, both mature products, both have been Q/A'ed and used by hundreds of thousands of users. But every distro I see seems to try either A) create its own clunky approach B) forge the niceties of configuration GUI's altogether in the old DIY approach.
This isn't the end of the world or anything, but I see configuration utilities as basic as DE's. Standarizing benifits the end user.
Of course I agree. Unfortunately the person ultimately responsible for deciding (in my case in favor of the cheaper server line that will get the job done) has to weigh the pros and the cons included in the broader picture. This year will probably be the first year we end with a profit, the right hardware wouldn't have made that possible.
Still your long-term argument holds, but try to explain that to your investors and you can see how it starts to get a little thornier.
(erons). But the price makes them a hard sell. I'll definately be keeping my eye on these things, as soon as the price points start to line up. I want to see AMD suceed in the server market, but for now (aside from Sun and a few HP systems) Xeon is still the dominant player.
is still a kludge. HT was a cheap hack to get extra performance under certain scenarios. Looks like their getting called out for it. Dual-core is the right answer, HT wasn't.
Enough to make it worth-while.
Its still probably the best place to get and share serious computer info. It'll be too bad if more of these yahoo's try to jump ship.
I know the whole Mhz to-do, but I'm using a 200 + Mhz Zaurus already. Is it more responsive? The battery life (as has been well illuminated) on the Zaurus + wifi is terrible so this looks interesting in that respect alone. Can the two be compared?
Ah the old-school slashdotters. Pendantic is right, you got my meaning. Milestone may be inaccurate, technically, but its being covered by mainstream press, so you can consider the cherry broken.
Anyhow, I had a shit day at work so if you want to argue you might as well pick another post.
Its a nice idea. I'm a Linux user myself and not generally in the habit of 'siding'. But lets be realistic. 1,000,000,000 users installing whatever software they like on any operating system, someone will find a way to take advantage of that. If it was Linux we'd just have 100 different solutions (down to special distro no doubt!) to fight the same problem with most of them being hobby-ware, and a few heavy guns. Just like about everything else in Linux.
Whoever the ghey naming probably wouldn't happen in Linux, unless it was maybe GNUfender or another looping acronym.
Remember, we just hit a milestone. First known virus in the wild. Vigilance is the responsibility of any savy computer user. Forget operating system.