That onboard Promise RAID controller you dished out the extra $50 for on that new motherboard is not going to get you a nice hardware RAID 5. AFAIK they can only do 1,0, 0+1, or 1+0. Also, I see people whining about software RAID as compared to hardware RAID. Running a striped set through software was nearly unfeasable a few years ago, but with the resources new machines have these days, the difference is almost negligable, as long as it doesn't have to fight for system resources. let's not forget software RAID is alot cheaper than buying a RAID controller.
At any rate, taking the view that hardware RAID is always the solution and software RAID is never the solution is just bad sysadministration.
How much did Akira make? Well it made $150 mil in Japan the day it came out which still stands as the record (In Japan). To this day it is the #1 purchased full length anime of all time. All in all Akira has made more money than 99% of all movies, american, animated, or otherwise. But that's Akira, and Akira is the exception to all anime rules.
Apart from that Anime wins best picture all the time, especially in Japanese award shows.The Oscars are a crock and it amazes me that anyone watches or attends them.
The problem with including any 802.11g equipment is that there currently is no 802.11g. IIRC, 802.11g has not been standardized yet, but some companies are putting out equipment labeled 802.11g. Any equipment manufactured before 802.11g is a written standard may or may not work with other types of 802.11g.
Unless you have a DS3 backbone, running Linux on your home system and having a shell account is a big difference. I used to have a shell account that I ran my eggdrop bot in since I couldn't be online to hold my channel 24/7. Also, installing and administrating a *nix system is a far cry from just using one.
You obviously know very little about security. Granted, any sysadmin who lets anyone upload any CGI script is asking for trouble, however the ability to execute commands as the CGI user opens up a whole new can of security worms. Do you not remember all the free shell providers that used to exist? Wonder why they don't anymore? Because it is nigh impossible to secure up a box with shell access. Instead of having to secure your internet facing services you have to secure every single possible hole. You'd have to change root even the most basic system services.
I agree that this is a good thing. I could really use this, But your comment about this only creating security problems on web servers with poor configuration is absolutely inane. If you think you're such a security badass, why don't you let me install and use it on your webserver and see if it creates security issues for you?
And just for your own education, why don't you check out all the application specific non-network related exploits that are posted in droves on bugtraq. All these become network exploitable when you have a shell.
IBM has a nasty habit of using their massive budget to hire lawyers to slap patent infringments on any one who doesn't let them get their way. What's to keep them from slapping Linus himself with a subpoenia when he refuses to accept faulty kernel patches from IBM? They know the suits are BS and apparently readily admit it, but few other companies have the capacity to compete with multiple infringment suits each being backed by a near limitless budget. For each one, it's a lose-loser situation. If you win, you spent a crapload to do so. If you lose, you lose bigtime.
Can you think of anyone else who uses this tactic? Sure, I knew ya could.
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Wrong. Apple chose BSD over GPL. OSX is OSX. not BSD, not Linux.. it could only be considered a Unix. They chose the BSD license because it is less restrictive. Mod -1 WRONG
"LNUX is worth a few pennies and in danger of being de-listed off the NASDAQ stock exchange"
So? I fail to see how this has anything to do with Linux. VA Software !=Linux, and asserting that it does is idiocy. Mod -1 OFFTOPIC
"MCSEs are getting more jobs than Linux sysadmins these days"
Perhaps in number, considering the multitude of mcse's, it's not suprising that some of them find work. In reality, however, this statement is ridiculous and uninformed. The average RHCE makes twice as much as the average MCSE. It's a fact. Mod -1 WRONG
"Apple chose Trolltech/KDE over the Gecko/Linux renderer"
Gecko/Linux eh? That's pretty stupid. Gecko is independent of Linux. This is about as stupid as saying apple chose BSD over Linux. Mod -1 WRONG
"OS X already won. Any geek or scientist worth their salt who wants a UNIX home computer already has an iBook or a G4."
OSX has already won what? Nothing. Only Mac users use OSX. The statement about any geek or scientist having mac hardware is just ridiculous ranting, PC architecture dominates the market and takes an equal percentage of geeks and scientists and everyone else with it. If anything, OSX has lost because it is an apple product, and apple has been dying since 1984.Mod -1 INANE RANT
So tell me now, how is it that you don't deserve to be modded out of existence? Every single one of your points was either completely in err or misleading. Putting your post in an unordered list won't get you a +5 Informative if your content is crap, which it was.
The problem with these packages at this point are twofold.
First, they aren't exactly easy to set up. Most people will need to recompile their kernels for bttv support, and not every Linux user out there knows how to safely rebuild a kernel. Then, at least with freevo, there is the matter of getting your dependencies set. This can be difficult for some, especially Redhat 7.3 users, as many of the packages that freevo relies on claim Redhat's versions of gcc or some obscure perl module are b0rked.
Also, they are missing some of the features that some commercial PVR's boast, such as HDTV (the tuner cards cost about as much as a PVR) and making suggestions for shows you might like.
Personally, I'd like to see a PVR distro.. perhaps a even Live CD. That would help solve the difficulty of setup, but as far as lack of features go, given time, I suspect any one of these projects can superceed commercial PVR's, at least among the slashdot type crowd.
What did you really expect from a.0 release? 9.1 probably won't be perfect either. I imagine they'll stop at 9.2 until 10.0. It's the same with Redhat.. 7.0 (buggiest), 7.1(less buggy),7.2 (less buggy then the last),7.3 (not too buggy).. and now 8.0 (back to buggiest). Consider it a stable beta.
I have this same card. It's awesome. These cards were produced prior to XP's release, so your complaint about lack of drivers is nonsensical. Unless you are complaining they didn't offer drivers, which they did. I went straight from 98 to XP within the first month afer XP was released, and got the Edge series driver from Philips support site. There were XP drivers for it, they just weren't digitally signed by M$. Perhaps it's your contention that Philips should shell out whatever tax M$ arbitrates. Perhaps it is yur contention that the end user be the one to get shafted by increased prices due to cost of MS "Conformity". I appreciate Philips keeping costs down by not giving in to demands for tribute, although it seems they since have done so.
"The fact of the matter is we haven't been attacked (on US soil) since 9-11-01"
Have you been living under a rock? We've been terrorized by Anthrax Mailers, Snipers, Mail Bombers, and a great many more attacks than are shown on the national news. We are and have been under CONTSTANT attack from terrorist activities. Perhaps you need to realize that foriegn != terrorist and US citizen != Good guy.
As far as Afghanistan being a FAR better place.. Afghanistan is still a god forsaken impoverished shit hole, still churns out terrorists. The only difference is the new government is US Friendly, because we instituted it.
"I don't find myself more restricted nor do I find my freedom reduced at all."
Then you should be glad that your name isn't muhommad. Do you not know of the oriental concentration camps the U.S. had going on during WWII? We rounded people up, regardless if they were even really japanese, US Citizen or not, and imprisnoed them without reason. The US has no problems taking away minority rights, because people like you don't care enough to stand up for them.
"It's us or them and if you think you can negotiate with them, you're wrong - dead wrong."
Why don't you do us all a favor and tell us exactly who "Them" is referring to? You seem to know exactly who the terrorists are and aren't so maybe you should be heading up the HSD instead of Poindexter. The truth is we have no idea who "They" are, so we violate basic human rights of innocents in a McCarthyesque witchhunt for an invisible enemy.
Persoanlly I'm glad Duke Nukem has been taking forever. I know this company has the ability to make a great game, and that they WANT to make a great game. Taking their time to do it right means alot to the overall gameplay. Even the best game ideas can be slaughtered by lack of attention to details. They've updated the engine a few times and started over a few times. Any coders out there know that sometimes intense modification or starting over is just what has to be done to make your program what you want. Or you could take the easy route and compromise your program concept to account for a mistake. A poor analogy would be that this is like shoveling all the crap in your roomunder the bed instead of cleaning up.
I would love to see the article on Lan Parties. "These are awful parties where the kids hook up to each others computers and play games all night, instead of binge drinking, having unprotected sex, and experimenting with mind altering substance like normal american teenagers!"
This is a beta version to a.1 release.. not a full release. In Redhat terms 8.0 is an alpha, 8.1 is beta, so this release is a beta of the beta of the redhat 8 series. Old bugs will have been replaced by new ones, but by the 8.2 or 8.3 release all the Redhat children will be as happy as with 7.3. I mean, consider the diff b/w 7.0 and 7.3.
Basically my point is that this beta release wasn't all that soon after the initial 8.0. This is just the way redhat works.
Google provides content specific searches. For example www.google.com/linux is a linux specific search engine. Google news is no different, it's just that the web, image, and news searches are the most popular so that's why they're somewhat grouped together. And until we see "Google weather" I won't consider it a portal.
Disagreed. Macromedia's Flash, not FLASH, has too much overhead, and it to resource intensive to truly be considered a viable interface for advanced applications. Yes, it is neat and does look cool, but is still not a programming language, nor does it have any tie-in to a programming language. ActionScripting is great, but it can't handle the functions required to create a commercial application, apart from CBT type educational programs, and even then Director is preferred over Flash. Flash can NOT replace html, because flash is not an open standard. You can not write flash with vi. Flash is a commercial and proprietary product. It can neither rival nor replace HTML. It is assinine to beleive that it could. IF you're looking for "Potential power potent enough to alter the web" you need to look into XML. Flash holds nothing for the power of the web. Flash is in no way original, several other similar technologies exist, and require a plugin (wildtangent, etc).
I work for a relatively small, local ISP, and Spam costs us big time. You know those 210 spam emails you got that totalled to 5Megs? Well our email server is holding those for 2000 email boxes. We have constant 24/7 spam traffic on our SMTP servers. We have tried subscribing to RBL's, but as an ISP it is difficult to do that. There are several big names in the email game that are blacklisted, and inevitably you have a customer bitching that they can't get their email from user@OpenRelayX. The best you can hope for is heuristics testing to flag spam so that our users have usable mailboxes, but that, of course, doesn't help with out bandwidth HDD space theft issue.
I seem to remember an artivle from a year or so back dealing with Kazaa. The article stated that instead of going after Kazaa, which has failed in the past, the lawsuits would be against FastTrack, and forcing them to shut Kazaa's p2p abilities down. Is Kazaa still based of FastTrack's p2p?
This is good for us. They need to keep on slapping the DMCA in everyone's face. That way the general public will realize what a completely ridiculous law it truly is. You don't see these DMCA cases on the 6 o'clock news and that needs to change.
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Redhat switched to the 2.4 kernel which can address 64GB of memory. So now you only need 4GB of swap space to run emacs :)
That onboard Promise RAID controller you dished out the extra $50 for on that new motherboard is not going to get you a nice hardware RAID 5. AFAIK they can only do 1,0, 0+1, or 1+0. Also, I see people whining about software RAID as compared to hardware RAID. Running a striped set through software was nearly unfeasable a few years ago, but with the resources new machines have these days, the difference is almost negligable, as long as it doesn't have to fight for system resources. let's not forget software RAID is alot cheaper than buying a RAID controller.
At any rate, taking the view that hardware RAID is always the solution and software RAID is never the solution is just bad sysadministration.
"you might want to peruse Meganet's website [meganet.com] before you start spouting off with some more ill-informed anti-semitic flame-bait garbage."
You may want to look up the definition of anti-semitic before you start spouting off with some more ill-informed IGNORANT flame-bait garbage.
Not a SINGLE damn comment in his post was anti-semitic. Perhaps understanding the anti-israeli != anti-semitic is a bit over your head.
Here's a yo-yo. It goes up and down. Go in the other room and play with that for ahwile while the adults converse.
How much did Akira make? Well it made $150 mil in Japan the day it came out which still stands as the record (In Japan). To this day it is the #1 purchased full length anime of all time. All in all Akira has made more money than 99% of all movies, american, animated, or otherwise. But that's Akira, and Akira is the exception to all anime rules.
Apart from that Anime wins best picture all the time, especially in Japanese award shows.The Oscars are a crock and it amazes me that anyone watches or attends them.
The problem with including any 802.11g equipment is that there currently is no 802.11g. IIRC, 802.11g has not been standardized yet, but some companies are putting out equipment labeled 802.11g. Any equipment manufactured before 802.11g is a written standard may or may not work with other types of 802.11g.
Unless you have a DS3 backbone, running Linux on your home system and having a shell account is a big difference. I used to have a shell account that I ran my eggdrop bot in since I couldn't be online to hold my channel 24/7. Also, installing and administrating a *nix system is a far cry from just using one.
You obviously know very little about security. Granted, any sysadmin who lets anyone upload any CGI script is asking for trouble, however the ability to execute commands as the CGI user opens up a whole new can of security worms. Do you not remember all the free shell providers that used to exist? Wonder why they don't anymore? Because it is nigh impossible to secure up a box with shell access. Instead of having to secure your internet facing services you have to secure every single possible hole. You'd have to change root even the most basic system services.
I agree that this is a good thing. I could really use this, But your comment about this only creating security problems on web servers with poor configuration is absolutely inane. If you think you're such a security badass, why don't you let me install and use it on your webserver and see if it creates security issues for you?
And just for your own education, why don't you check out all the application specific non-network related exploits that are posted in droves on bugtraq. All these become network exploitable when you have a shell.
IBM has a nasty habit of using their massive budget to hire lawyers to slap patent infringments on any one who doesn't let them get their way. What's to keep them from slapping Linus himself with a subpoenia when he refuses to accept faulty kernel patches from IBM? They know the suits are BS and apparently readily admit it, but few other companies have the capacity to compete with multiple infringment suits each being backed by a near limitless budget. For each one, it's a lose-loser situation. If you win, you spent a crapload to do so. If you lose, you lose bigtime.
Can you think of anyone else who uses this tactic? Sure, I knew ya could.
between 1.x and 2.x? Could someone fill me in?
Wrong. Apple chose BSD over GPL. OSX is OSX. not BSD, not Linux.. it could only be considered a Unix. They chose the BSD license because it is less restrictive. Mod -1 WRONG
So? I fail to see how this has anything to do with Linux. VA Software !=Linux, and asserting that it does is idiocy. Mod -1 OFFTOPIC
Perhaps in number, considering the multitude of mcse's, it's not suprising that some of them find work. In reality, however, this statement is ridiculous and uninformed. The average RHCE makes twice as much as the average MCSE. It's a fact. Mod -1 WRONG
Gecko/Linux eh? That's pretty stupid. Gecko is independent of Linux. This is about as stupid as saying apple chose BSD over Linux. Mod -1 WRONG
OSX has already won what? Nothing. Only Mac users use OSX. The statement about any geek or scientist having mac hardware is just ridiculous ranting, PC architecture dominates the market and takes an equal percentage of geeks and scientists and everyone else with it. If anything, OSX has lost because it is an apple product, and apple has been dying since 1984.Mod -1 INANE RANT
So tell me now, how is it that you don't deserve to be modded out of existence? Every single one of your points was either completely in err or misleading. Putting your post in an unordered list won't get you a +5 Informative if your content is crap, which it was.
At least the more computer savvy and DIYers are. There are several packages out the to turn your pc into a PVR, such as:
Freevo
and
MythTV
The problem with these packages at this point are twofold.
First, they aren't exactly easy to set up. Most people will need to recompile their kernels for bttv support, and not every Linux user out there knows how to safely rebuild a kernel. Then, at least with freevo, there is the matter of getting your dependencies set. This can be difficult for some, especially Redhat 7.3 users, as many of the packages that freevo relies on claim Redhat's versions of gcc or some obscure perl module are b0rked.
Also, they are missing some of the features that some commercial PVR's boast, such as HDTV (the tuner cards cost about as much as a PVR) and making suggestions for shows you might like.
Personally, I'd like to see a PVR distro.. perhaps a even Live CD. That would help solve the difficulty of setup, but as far as lack of features go, given time, I suspect any one of these projects can superceed commercial PVR's, at least among the slashdot type crowd.
What did you really expect from a .0 release? 9.1 probably won't be perfect either. I imagine they'll stop at 9.2 until 10.0. It's the same with Redhat.. 7.0 (buggiest), 7.1(less buggy),7.2 (less buggy then the last),7.3 (not too buggy).. and now 8.0 (back to buggiest). Consider it a stable beta.
I have this same card. It's awesome. These cards were produced prior to XP's release, so your complaint about lack of drivers is nonsensical. Unless you are complaining they didn't offer drivers, which they did. I went straight from 98 to XP within the first month afer XP was released, and got the Edge series driver from Philips support site. There were XP drivers for it, they just weren't digitally signed by M$. Perhaps it's your contention that Philips should shell out whatever tax M$ arbitrates. Perhaps it is yur contention that the end user be the one to get shafted by increased prices due to cost of MS "Conformity". I appreciate Philips keeping costs down by not giving in to demands for tribute, although it seems they since have done so.
You're views are either naive or simply wrong.
"The fact of the matter is we haven't been attacked (on US soil) since 9-11-01"
Have you been living under a rock? We've been terrorized by Anthrax Mailers, Snipers, Mail Bombers, and a great many more attacks than are shown on the national news. We are and have been under CONTSTANT attack from terrorist activities. Perhaps you need to realize that foriegn != terrorist and US citizen != Good guy.
As far as Afghanistan being a FAR better place.. Afghanistan is still a god forsaken impoverished shit hole, still churns out terrorists. The only difference is the new government is US Friendly, because we instituted it.
"I don't find myself more restricted nor do I find my freedom reduced at all."
Then you should be glad that your name isn't muhommad. Do you not know of the oriental concentration camps the U.S. had going on during WWII? We rounded people up, regardless if they were even really japanese, US Citizen or not, and imprisnoed them without reason. The US has no problems taking away minority rights, because people like you don't care enough to stand up for them.
"It's us or them and if you think you can negotiate with them, you're wrong - dead wrong."
Why don't you do us all a favor and tell us exactly who "Them" is referring to? You seem to know exactly who the terrorists are and aren't so maybe you should be heading up the HSD instead of Poindexter. The truth is we have no idea who "They" are, so we violate basic human rights of innocents in a McCarthyesque witchhunt for an invisible enemy.
Persoanlly I'm glad Duke Nukem has been taking forever. I know this company has the ability to make a great game, and that they WANT to make a great game. Taking their time to do it right means alot to the overall gameplay. Even the best game ideas can be slaughtered by lack of attention to details.
They've updated the engine a few times and started over a few times.
Any coders out there know that sometimes intense modification or starting over is just what has to be done to make your program what you want. Or you could take the easy route and compromise your program concept to account for a mistake. A poor analogy would be that this is like shoveling all the crap in your roomunder the bed instead of cleaning up.
I would love to see the article on Lan Parties. "These are awful parties where the kids hook up to each others computers and play games all night, instead of binge drinking, having unprotected sex, and experimenting with mind altering substance like normal american teenagers!"
Now we have to worry about dumb windows users mistakingly drinking their data.
Nah, I know a game that is more worser than that.
This is a beta version to a .1 release.. not a full release. In Redhat terms 8.0 is an alpha, 8.1 is beta, so this release is a beta of the beta of the redhat 8 series. Old bugs will have been replaced by new ones, but by the 8.2 or 8.3 release all the Redhat children will be as happy as with 7.3. I mean, consider the diff b/w 7.0 and 7.3.
Basically my point is that this beta release wasn't all that soon after the initial 8.0. This is just the way redhat works.
Google provides content specific searches. For example www.google.com/linux is a linux specific search engine. Google news is no different, it's just that the web, image, and news searches are the most popular so that's why they're somewhat grouped together. And until we see "Google weather" I won't consider it a portal.
Disagreed. Macromedia's Flash, not FLASH, has too much overhead, and it to resource intensive to truly be considered a viable interface for advanced applications. Yes, it is neat and does look cool, but is still not a programming language, nor does it have any tie-in to a programming language. ActionScripting is great, but it can't handle the functions required to create a commercial application, apart from CBT type educational programs, and even then Director is preferred over Flash. Flash can NOT replace html, because flash is not an open standard. You can not write flash with vi. Flash is a commercial and proprietary product. It can neither rival nor replace HTML. It is assinine to beleive that it could. IF you're looking for "Potential power potent enough to alter the web" you need to look into XML. Flash holds nothing for the power of the web. Flash is in no way original, several other similar technologies exist, and require a plugin (wildtangent, etc).
I work for a relatively small, local ISP, and Spam costs us big time. You know those 210 spam emails you got that totalled to 5Megs? Well our email server is holding those for 2000 email boxes. We have constant 24/7 spam traffic on our SMTP servers. We have tried subscribing to RBL's, but as an ISP it is difficult to do that. There are several big names in the email game that are blacklisted, and inevitably you have a customer bitching that they can't get their email from user@OpenRelayX. The best you can hope for is heuristics testing to flag spam so that our users have usable mailboxes, but that, of course, doesn't help with out bandwidth HDD space theft issue.
I seem to remember an artivle from a year or so back dealing with Kazaa. The article stated that instead of going after Kazaa, which has failed in the past, the lawsuits would be against FastTrack, and forcing them to shut Kazaa's p2p abilities down. Is Kazaa still based of FastTrack's p2p?
This is good for us. They need to keep on slapping the DMCA in everyone's face. That way the general public will realize what a completely ridiculous law it truly is. You don't see these DMCA cases on the 6 o'clock news and that needs to change.