The software raid [tldp.org] driver in linux makes these large arrays easy with a trivial amount of hardware behind it.
Windows 2000, I might add, has dynamic disks, which allows, in addition to software RAID, resizing partitions on the fly without even a logoff, and other cool stuff, like partition table replication. Partition table corrupted? No problem! Just replicate the database from another dynamic disc in the system [click, click] and you're set!
That may be true, but I'm just telling it like it is. KDE on BSD and Linux was sooo much slower than either Windows 98 or 2000. Trying to run Konqeror was like pulling teeth. I actually got better performance running XDM and a virtual console through Exceed than if I sat there at the actual X console and tried to startup KDE
Yeah, tell me about it. I tried doing that as a replacement for 98 on a Pentium and KDE under both Linux and FreeBSD were really slow... unusuable in fact. I ended up settling with Windows 2000, which actually surprised me, considering the machine has only 32 MB of ram. IE is actually pretty snappy... the machine is just as fast as it was under 98.
Of course you *could* use console or X-only apps under TWM, but then again I might as well install DOS! X-Windows runs like a turtle... the machine constantly goes to swap. However 2000 and 98 hardly swap. And I even have all the visual goodies in 2000 turned on, like the fading menus, etc. Like I said, the results were quite surprising to me.
You're close. Half that. According to this, the retail price is... are you ready for this? $9,999!!!
Now can't you accomplish the same with a $900 refrigerator and a $500 PC and a $50 webcam to play the MP3s, take the digital photos and videos, take notes, and use MS-Access to keep track of recipies? I think so. Sheesh, for another $400 you can add an LCD panel!
This all sounds pretty stupid to me, agreed... but who listens to NPR anyway?
It just reminds me of Alec Baldwin's "Schweaty Balls" skit on SNL. I never cease to crack up when I see that. "...no one can resist my Schweaty balls."
Well, just cause Linus works there doesn't mean that Transmeta necessarily has anything to do with Linux.
Realize all the work that Microsoft has been putting into XP Tablet for months behind the scenes. It needs handwriting recognition software, too, which MS claims to have "the best in the world." Also, realize that applications have to be built with the inking/tablet API. MS has received partnerships with lots of companies like Adobe and Autodesk to design applications for this.
People dog Windows for having a graphical-only mode, but I think Linux's console-based roots combined with that crap called X Window System isn't good enough for tablet PCs. I think a Linux Consortium needs to be founded to design a new GUI (and NO I don't mean Window Manager) from the ground up.
Hey, if little old Apple coulda done it with Aqua, don't you think all the Linux programmers could do it? Oh wait, why not just run OSX?;)
Actually, the editors debate over which submissions they will post. If it's some extremely bitchy anti-big-business article you can be sure michael will post it.
Uhh, how many people do you know that have a Quicktime streaming server? 99.9999995% of the world is using either Microsoft's Windows Media Services on NT(free as in beer) or Real's Realserver (~$1000+) on Linux. Considering a copy of NT/2000 is about the same as a copy of RealServer, you're shelling $1000 either way.
You're better off stuffing a wad of cash in a coffee can, dousing it with gasoline, and setting fire to the stash, and pissing on the ashes than giving Apple money for a QT streaming server that 14 users will use.
Yes, of course... and back to the topic at hand, we should hold Microsoft responsible if you get hacked with these hole-ridden mod kits!
This is like saying that if I remove the fucking steering wheel from my car, and then kill a family of four, I should hold GM or Ford or Toyota or whomever responsible "because I was able to remove the steering wheel from the car."
I think your logic is flawed. Note you didn't exactly say that, but from reading your post I got that impression.
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The software raid [tldp.org] driver in linux makes these large arrays easy with a trivial amount of hardware behind it.
Windows 2000, I might add, has dynamic disks, which allows, in addition to software RAID, resizing partitions on the fly without even a logoff, and other cool stuff, like partition table replication. Partition table corrupted? No problem! Just replicate the database from another dynamic disc in the system [click, click] and you're set!
Google says so!
I think you're more likely to die from a cell-phone-induced tumor than a 911 call not being placed where you could easily use a pay phone..........
That may be true, but I'm just telling it like it is. KDE on BSD and Linux was sooo much slower than either Windows 98 or 2000. Trying to run Konqeror was like pulling teeth. I actually got better performance running XDM and a virtual console through Exceed than if I sat there at the actual X console and tried to startup KDE
Is "(Score:-1, Flamebait)" just another way of saying "OMG, he's right, but we don't want stuff like that getting out!"
Yeah, tell me about it. I tried doing that as a replacement for 98 on a Pentium and KDE under both Linux and FreeBSD were really slow... unusuable in fact. I ended up settling with Windows 2000, which actually surprised me, considering the machine has only 32 MB of ram. IE is actually pretty snappy... the machine is just as fast as it was under 98.
Of course you *could* use console or X-only apps under TWM, but then again I might as well install DOS! X-Windows runs like a turtle... the machine constantly goes to swap. However 2000 and 98 hardly swap. And I even have all the visual goodies in 2000 turned on, like the fading menus, etc. Like I said, the results were quite surprising to me.
You're close. Half that. According to this, the retail price is... are you ready for this? $9,999!!!
Now can't you accomplish the same with a $900 refrigerator and a $500 PC and a $50 webcam to play the MP3s, take the digital photos and videos, take notes, and use MS-Access to keep track of recipies? I think so. Sheesh, for another $400 you can add an LCD panel!
#/sbin/unlockdoor
unlockdoor: Sorry, I think you've had enough to eat today.
I'd say that NPR is committing patent infringement every time they use a hyperlink!
This all sounds pretty stupid to me, agreed... but who listens to NPR anyway?
It just reminds me of Alec Baldwin's "Schweaty Balls" skit on SNL. I never cease to crack up when I see that. "...no one can resist my Schweaty balls."
So that's why that fucker tried to, uh, "not" blow up his shoes?
Realize that if you have nothing to hide, there is no problem. The government isn't going to sell your eyescans to say, doubleclick or something.
You people can be so paranoid.
If it was up to the ACLU, fat people should get a second seat free...
Well, did he write it down?
Hmm, strange, you wouldn't think that biometric scanners have such serious limitations until after you read that article.
Anyone else remember that movie where that one guy (Wesley Snipes?) had removed someone's eyeball and used it for authentication?
I think passwords are more useful; while they can be cracked, they can't be worked out of out if you're killed.
Well, just cause Linus works there doesn't mean that Transmeta necessarily has anything to do with Linux.
;)
Realize all the work that Microsoft has been putting into XP Tablet for months behind the scenes. It needs handwriting recognition software, too, which MS claims to have "the best in the world." Also, realize that applications have to be built with the inking/tablet API. MS has received partnerships with lots of companies like Adobe and Autodesk to design applications for this.
People dog Windows for having a graphical-only mode, but I think Linux's console-based roots combined with that crap called X Window System isn't good enough for tablet PCs. I think a Linux Consortium needs to be founded to design a new GUI (and NO I don't mean Window Manager) from the ground up.
Hey, if little old Apple coulda done it with Aqua, don't you think all the Linux programmers could do it? Oh wait, why not just run OSX?
Stephen King already has a copy!
Bill Gates has recently that he has done all his computing for quite a while on a tablet PC.
Yes. Here is confirmation.
I'm surprised this even got posted, considering 99% of tablet PCs will be running Windows XP Tablet and not Linux.
Actually, the editors debate over which submissions they will post. If it's some extremely bitchy anti-big-business article you can be sure michael will post it.
And ugly.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say Linux is responsible for that one.
Hey!
Yeah, I like to have hard and soft copies in the same place too, namely a pussy.
So is IceCast. Point is you have a whole lot QT customers than you do WinMedia or Real customers.
Uhh, how many people do you know that have a Quicktime streaming server? 99.9999995% of the world is using either Microsoft's Windows Media Services on NT(free as in beer) or Real's Realserver (~$1000+) on Linux. Considering a copy of NT/2000 is about the same as a copy of RealServer, you're shelling $1000 either way.
You're better off stuffing a wad of cash in a coffee can, dousing it with gasoline, and setting fire to the stash, and pissing on the ashes than giving Apple money for a QT streaming server that 14 users will use.
Yes, of course... and back to the topic at hand, we should hold Microsoft responsible if you get hacked with these hole-ridden mod kits!
This is like saying that if I remove the fucking steering wheel from my car, and then kill a family of four, I should hold GM or Ford or Toyota or whomever responsible "because I was able to remove the steering wheel from the car."
I think your logic is flawed. Note you didn't exactly say that, but from reading your post I got that impression.