Since I left Metronet (after they got bought by PlusNet!), I've been with both IDNet and NewNet both of which are brilliant. Neither is expensive, and both provide problem free broadband without any port blocking or "traffic shaping". I would strongly recommend either!
It probably does matter a *tiny* bit in the real world in that it creates some uncertainty... at least, uncertainty in the eyes of PHBs; but that's all that matters to MS.
Yeah, despite my BBC comment, I was actually a 100% speccy die-hard.
I remember that docking bug too!! Not the lens-lock though -- I think my Elite may have been a copy, but I did have to suffer the lens-lock with art-studio.
And of all my speccy stuff....
2 x rubber-keyed speccy, kempston joystick + interface, currah microspeach, cheetah spec-drum, DK'Tronics (?) light-pen, Multiface-one + multiface-disassembler, loads of books, and a ridiculous number of games. ....the only thing I kept was the lens-lock!:)
The [slightly] sickening thing is that all the rest was dumped in the bin.:(
The thing that really scares me is the number of hours I spent messing around with it.
I've never done IE only sites, so I can't exactly quantify the additional work for standard-compliant browsers, but I do know that MSIE 6 (I no longer support IE 5.x) perhaps as much as doubles the amount of time I spend developing a website. MSIE7 on the otherhand, whilst rather poor in comparison with *all* the competition, does at least behave in a predictable manner, and as such, it fairly easy to support. But my personal irritation as MSIE 6 is... well.... epic!
For anyone unfamiliar with developing websites for IE6, basically, you get given (or design yourself) a page layout; columns here, images there, content centred, etc, you create a fairly simple XHTML document to contain the content, you create CSS to position stuff. And I can do all this whilst testing only in Firefox and know that there will be few if any issues with other browsers. Even IE7 which as mentioned, isn't perfect, but at least I know (as with other browsers) that any slight issues can be dealt with later on.
BUT with IE6, it'll throw all sorts of weird and wonderful bugs at you. Bits of content might appear fine as you tweak XHTML/CSS and refresh, but when you fire up the browser afresh, it'll screw up. Or content will appear, but when you scroll the page, it'll disappear.
So I'd be more forgiving of Microsoft if they'd allowed IE7 to run on pre-Windows XP machines since this would allow me (and all the millions of other poor-sods) to drop IE6 support in the forseeable future! For the most part, IE7 is just a bug fixed IE6. At the very least, the bug fixes should've been back-ported.
PS apologies for the above turning into a bit of a rant!
But what if it's part of a mesh... or not. How would one know?
What happens if the OLPC becomes popular in the UK?
In fact, how does the Wifi on a Zune work? Could I be arrested for walking past someone's house with my Zune (I haven't got one btw... so I'm cool with the/. crowd!!:D ) switched on?
It strikes me that Detective Constable Stephone Rothwell hasn't really thought this through! I *do* understand that using someone elses bandwidth without asking is not a polite thing to do, but I think the person leaving an AP unprotected is as much to blame. If the arguement is not simply about bandwidth use, but about the potential for criminals using an open AP to cover their tracks, then surely the person leaving the AP unprotected should be prosecuted also?
I can't claim to really know much about either Access or Exchange, but I do seem to recall that Exchange (2000 anyway) did have some kind of transaction logging to allow atomic commits and backups whilst the system live. And I might be being mean to Access, but I thought did basically nothing in this respect!
The reason I ask is that I used to code in Z80 years and years ago, but since then I've not written any assembler and although I have a vague understanding of whats changed, I don't actually know how any of it works -- memory management being one thing in particular that I don't understand!
I'd agree that the Google study is probably the best, but I have also seen the same ~3yr failure point. I'm guessing here, but I'd say that the Google study shows that drives don't *just* fail at the start or end of their lives, but also, a not insignificant amount fail at some random interval.
Thus, the 3yr figure still stands as being the point at which you should replace a drive regardless. But the Google study shows that you need to plan for plenty of failures anyway.
If sIFR is what is used on the 123-Reg website, then it's total pants. On Firefox on Ubuntu, it just slows everything down and doesn't always render correctly anyway.
Will this work now? Given that Apple is running pretty much "standard" PC hardware now, any manufacturer who wants to also sell to an Apple audience will need to create drivers that work on a Unix-like system. As long as Apple don't sign up to the same (or any) DRM-for-drivers type system, then it will still at the very least, be possible to reverse engineer these. Surely?
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I've never used Eclipse.... but I've read quite a lot of bad things!
Their ratings aren't exactly top either:
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Since I left Metronet (after they got bought by PlusNet!), I've been with both IDNet and NewNet both of which are brilliant. Neither is expensive, and both provide problem free broadband without any port blocking or "traffic shaping". I would strongly recommend either!
It probably does matter a *tiny* bit in the real world in that it creates some uncertainty... at least, uncertainty in the eyes of PHBs; but that's all that matters to MS.
at least the USD price is vaguely realistic. Have you seen the markup MS charge in GBP?
emacs does 3D now?
ZAIFF expects payment for all /. posts. ;)
as long as they don't run Linux, Bill will be happy.
Yeah, despite my BBC comment, I was actually a 100% speccy die-hard.
....the only thing I kept was the lens-lock! :) :(
I remember that docking bug too!! Not the lens-lock though -- I think my Elite may have been a copy, but I did have to suffer the lens-lock with art-studio.
And of all my speccy stuff....
2 x rubber-keyed speccy, kempston joystick + interface, currah microspeach, cheetah spec-drum, DK'Tronics (?) light-pen, Multiface-one + multiface-disassembler, loads of books, and a ridiculous number of games.
The [slightly] sickening thing is that all the rest was dumped in the bin.
The thing that really scares me is the number of hours I spent messing around with it.
...although it should be noted that Elite was better on the BBC Model-B; especially if you had analogue joysticks.
FWIW, UK kitchen product website -- 1-Jan-2007 to 30-May-2007 Google Analytics says IE has 85%
I've never done IE only sites, so I can't exactly quantify the additional work for standard-compliant browsers, but I do know that MSIE 6 (I no longer support IE 5.x) perhaps as much as doubles the amount of time I spend developing a website. MSIE7 on the otherhand, whilst rather poor in comparison with *all* the competition, does at least behave in a predictable manner, and as such, it fairly easy to support. But my personal irritation as MSIE 6 is... well.... epic!
For anyone unfamiliar with developing websites for IE6, basically, you get given (or design yourself) a page layout; columns here, images there, content centred, etc, you create a fairly simple XHTML document to contain the content, you create CSS to position stuff. And I can do all this whilst testing only in Firefox and know that there will be few if any issues with other browsers. Even IE7 which as mentioned, isn't perfect, but at least I know (as with other browsers) that any slight issues can be dealt with later on.
BUT with IE6, it'll throw all sorts of weird and wonderful bugs at you. Bits of content might appear fine as you tweak XHTML/CSS and refresh, but when you fire up the browser afresh, it'll screw up. Or content will appear, but when you scroll the page, it'll disappear.
So I'd be more forgiving of Microsoft if they'd allowed IE7 to run on pre-Windows XP machines since this would allow me (and all the millions of other poor-sods) to drop IE6 support in the forseeable future! For the most part, IE7 is just a bug fixed IE6. At the very least, the bug fixes should've been back-ported.
PS apologies for the above turning into a bit of a rant!
But what if it's part of a mesh... or not. How would one know?
/. crowd!! :D ) switched on?
What happens if the OLPC becomes popular in the UK?
In fact, how does the Wifi on a Zune work? Could I be arrested for walking past someone's house with my Zune (I haven't got one btw... so I'm cool with the
It strikes me that Detective Constable Stephone Rothwell hasn't really thought this through! I *do* understand that using someone elses bandwidth without asking is not a polite thing to do, but I think the person leaving an AP unprotected is as much to blame. If the arguement is not simply about bandwidth use, but about the potential for criminals using an open AP to cover their tracks, then surely the person leaving the AP unprotected should be prosecuted also?
So if I use adblock to block say *.doubleclick.net/* , does that mean that I'm safe from the thought-thieves?
No, really!
Don't knock it. If it gets us Linux drivers then its a step in the right direction.
Aahhhhh -- that'd probably explain it!
I can't claim to really know much about either Access or Exchange, but I do seem to recall that Exchange (2000 anyway) did have some kind of transaction logging to allow atomic commits and backups whilst the system live. And I might be being mean to Access, but I thought did basically nothing in this respect!
Are you sure Exchange uses Jet?
Does this book cover how memory management works?
The reason I ask is that I used to code in Z80 years and years ago, but since then I've not written any assembler and although I have a vague understanding of whats changed, I don't actually know how any of it works -- memory management being one thing in particular that I don't understand!
I'd agree that the Google study is probably the best, but I have also seen the same ~3yr failure point. I'm guessing here, but I'd say that the Google study shows that drives don't *just* fail at the start or end of their lives, but also, a not insignificant amount fail at some random interval.
Thus, the 3yr figure still stands as being the point at which you should replace a drive regardless. But the Google study shows that you need to plan for plenty of failures anyway.
If sIFR is what is used on the 123-Reg website, then it's total pants. On Firefox on Ubuntu, it just slows everything down and doesn't always render correctly anyway.
There's a dude in India who's probably really pissed because every time he calls Dell for support on his server, he gets someone from Texas!
Will this work now? Given that Apple is running pretty much "standard" PC hardware now, any manufacturer who wants to also sell to an Apple audience will need to create drivers that work on a Unix-like system. As long as Apple don't sign up to the same (or any) DRM-for-drivers type system, then it will still at the very least, be possible to reverse engineer these. Surely?
Yes yes, my wife does call me that, but how on earth did you know?!!
As the president for Asshole Systems Inc. I am deeply offended by your remark and demand an immediate retraction!