Having just got back from the States and being used to being able to get 4M/384k DSL or cable *ANYWHERE* it's a little annoying that I am offered a wonderful 8M/400k ADSL by some companies, and then told that the line cannot sustain 2M/256k so they can't help me, but I can get 512K/128k from BT for the same price (please note this is not in the middle of a field somewhere, this is a mile from a big city).
And even the three people in London who do qualify for the 8meg service only get about 3meg in reality due to crappy copper [overhead] wires.
Plus they're still knocking out the stupid USB "frog" modems that use about 80% CPU (so the first thing you have to do is go buy a router and ditch the frog).
And what about bandwidth limiting - yes a lot of plans offer you 8meg of bandwidth a month - sorry, but that would be used up by checking your Email! Can we now charge spammers for using up our bandwidth with their remotely hosted images?
So after being away for 4 years, Britain is still in the same place as far as broadband goes, and that's the Dark Ages!
Lets face it. The kind of people who would use MS VirtualServer or VirtualPC over VMware are not going to be running Linux on it anyway, they're MS fanboys.
99% of the time, people who use any MS server products in enterprise, us *only* MS products (possibly because they have vendor lock-in and don't interoperate well).
Would you buy VS/VPC over VMware, now you've heard they "support" Linux running on it?
And what does "support" mean: that they don't actively block Linux from working, or they provide accelerated display drivers etc?
As far as I know, Windows certainly isn't advanced enough to let you chose what programs run on what processor, and I'm pretty sure Linux can't either (well, to some degree with 'nice').
Why do people think dual cores will be any different to dual processors or hyperthreading?
And you're gonna need XP Pro not Home, and multi-threaded applications (not fucking games!)
The problem is, Channel 5 is awful, and 5th Gear is basically a poor TopGear rip-off.
It's like all the rubbish shows that couldn't even make it to ITV.
I can't think of a comparable US station, but it would basically consist of Spanish soap operas, re-runs of 20 year old comedy, awful gameshows and soft-core porn.
Yup, just what I was thinking - the acting, ugly guys and kinda goth girls just made me think it was some soft porno and a double-ended dildo was going to appear any minute now!
Personally I think you've got to give it to them - I assume none of them are actors or supermodels, so it's not too bad, the CGI certainly is pretty good.
Not sure where it's supposed to fit though - Vader and Palpatine still alive, but no sign of Luke and gang - between 3 and 4 maybe?
I have an ECS K7S5A Pro which (when it boots at all) has various display problems.
Also, I've used one of their newer boards, which didn't even POST with 4 Athlons I tried - until I put a Sempron in it - wow a board designed to use crappy processors!
Nintendo has always struck me (in all it's generations) as being way too locked into a small number of characters for all it's games - Star Fox, Mario, Kong etc; and they're all a bit childish.
All Nintendo games look the same, so even with better graphics, you still need some decent game concepts.
The company I work for has just hired another fresh-out-if-college C programmer with no experience.
We already have one, he can only write basic.exe's that read logfiles - I guess they don't teach you how to write daemons or use stdin in CS?
So the idiots went and hired another one. She can't even install Linux on her PC, I guess she's been too sheltered by academia and has no real interest in computers other than to make money (did I mention that they're both from India?)
So me (with no formal computing training, all self-taught, with a BA in Business) and my co-Developer/Sysadmin (who quit today, and didn't even go to college) are the ones doing all the work, for less money....
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Having just got back from the States and being used to being able to get 4M/384k DSL or cable *ANYWHERE* it's a little annoying that I am offered a wonderful 8M/400k ADSL by some companies, and then told that the line cannot sustain 2M/256k so they can't help me, but I can get 512K/128k from BT for the same price (please note this is not in the middle of a field somewhere, this is a mile from a big city).
And even the three people in London who do qualify for the 8meg service only get about 3meg in reality due to crappy copper [overhead] wires.
Plus they're still knocking out the stupid USB "frog" modems that use about 80% CPU (so the first thing you have to do is go buy a router and ditch the frog).
And what about bandwidth limiting - yes a lot of plans offer you 8meg of bandwidth a month - sorry, but that would be used up by checking your Email! Can we now charge spammers for using up our bandwidth with their remotely hosted images?
So after being away for 4 years, Britain is still in the same place as far as broadband goes, and that's the Dark Ages!
Lets face it. The kind of people who would use MS VirtualServer or VirtualPC over VMware are not going to be running Linux on it anyway, they're MS fanboys.
99% of the time, people who use any MS server products in enterprise, us *only* MS products (possibly because they have vendor lock-in and don't interoperate well).
Would you buy VS/VPC over VMware, now you've heard they "support" Linux running on it?
And what does "support" mean: that they don't actively block Linux from working, or they provide accelerated display drivers etc?
I'm very happy with VMware WS5 thanks.
As far as I know, Windows certainly isn't advanced enough to let you chose what programs run on what processor, and I'm pretty sure Linux can't either (well, to some degree with 'nice').
Why do people think dual cores will be any different to dual processors or hyperthreading?
And you're gonna need XP Pro not Home, and multi-threaded applications (not fucking games!)
Personally I think it's all hype, like 64-Bit.
The original 250 comes with a remote.
The 250 **MCE** doesn't, it has an FM tuner instead (like the 350).
So what's happned to Linux lately?
I'm waiting for the abduction story in the National Enquirer.
Maybe Microsoft has kidnapped him and replaced him with his evil twin, the moustachioed Winus?
the 250 is an excellent piece of hardware, i've had both the ntsc and pal versions, and mythtv works with it fine.
the all in wonders from ati do not work with mythtv (they don't really work at all under linux except with gatos drivers).
You're not a programmer at all. You're a designer.
HTML is a markup language, not a programming language.
IT HAS NO LOGIC, it can't be used to make applications, for that you need to add Javascript/Java applets/Flash/CGI....
Maybe it's a Microsoft ploy to make MS Office run faster under Crossover, than OO.org does natively!
The problem is, Channel 5 is awful, and 5th Gear is basically a poor TopGear rip-off.
It's like all the rubbish shows that couldn't even make it to ITV.
I can't think of a comparable US station, but it would basically consist of Spanish soap operas, re-runs of 20 year old comedy, awful gameshows and soft-core porn.
Basically, don't expect BBC quality shows....
Jees, I don't think being bought by ticketmaster is anything to get excited about!
And I thought Microsoft owned Expedia?
Did anyone ever use Jeeves even in it's prime? I always thought it was pretty useless....
The US is no longer the land of the free, it's the land of the copyright lawyer and the media companies who own senators *cough* Hatch *cough*
Free speech my arse!
Yup, just what I was thinking - the acting, ugly guys and kinda goth girls just made me think it was some soft porno and a double-ended dildo was going to appear any minute now!
Personally I think you've got to give it to them - I assume none of them are actors or supermodels, so it's not too bad, the CGI certainly is pretty good.
Not sure where it's supposed to fit though - Vader and Palpatine still alive, but no sign of Luke and gang - between 3 and 4 maybe?
This has already been discussed to death on osnews.com and fedoraforum.org
Essentially it is using the GnomeToaster GUI under license (not GPL) with a Nero API/drivers backend.
It's closed source and doesn't include Nero Recode (aka DVD Shrink) or anything other than Nero Burning ROM.
You really have to be taking the piss now!
I have an ECS K7S5A Pro which (when it boots at all) has various display problems.
Also, I've used one of their newer boards, which didn't even POST with 4 Athlons I tried - until I put a Sempron in it - wow a board designed to use crappy processors!
I basically just added this same comment (didn't see yours first time through).
It's exactly why I've never bought Nintendo, way too much reliance on Donkey Kong and Mario to sell boxes to kids.
When are we going to see the Mario shoot-em-up where I can make Kong kill Mario with a chaingun?
Nintendo has always struck me (in all it's generations) as being way too locked into a small number of characters for all it's games - Star Fox, Mario, Kong etc; and they're all a bit childish.
All Nintendo games look the same, so even with better graphics, you still need some decent game concepts.
You mean text editor? Oh I use XEmacs, Gedit, Nedit, UltraEdit....
If you mean visual IDE/RAD, don't need one mate, I can code.
The company I work for has just hired another fresh-out-if-college C programmer with no experience.
.exe's that read logfiles - I guess they don't teach you how to write daemons or use stdin in CS?
We already have one, he can only write basic
So the idiots went and hired another one. She can't even install Linux on her PC, I guess she's been too sheltered by academia and has no real interest in computers other than to make money (did I mention that they're both from India?)
So me (with no formal computing training, all self-taught, with a BA in Business) and my co-Developer/Sysadmin (who quit today, and didn't even go to college) are the ones doing all the work, for less money....
Great way to break Google and make MSN more popular, ship the programmers who wrote NT to Google!
I've always heard that TiVo can fast forward through adverts, but I don't see how - unless you pre-record everything.
My Dish PVR allows you to pause/rewind etc; put surely FFWD'ing would require you to travel through time to something that hasn't been broadcast yet?
Yeah no shit - what is a beta candidate?!
I guess we'll have to wait for the alpha release to see if they've fixed the startup time.....
Maybe they've changed the numbering system too, and we're not actually on 2.0 as they say, but 1.0.2.0?
weird, cos i'm not a trekkie (or trekker)
EXACTLY!
I was watching the other day, and thought to myself "we haven't seen the cylons in 2 episodes".
There really is nothing REALLY going on - just the hullucinating doctor and these love triangles with "Boomer".
"...like the whole human looking cylon deal"
Erm, you do know that is just a way to save money on special effects right?
I think the new Battlestar stinks - especially as it's nothing new (more of a cross between the original series and the books).
The whole thing with the imaginary nympho Cylon "queen" is crap.
The dual storyline back on Caprica is pointless.
Come back Enterprise, all is forgiven!