Hey Jerkface, You dont just go post a video to slashdot but offer it only in WMV format. That's just rude.
Re:Here's a good example of 'lean and mean'
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That proves everything. They have the same inode number -- they *are* the same file. Not identical streams of bits (which is all md5sum would prove) but the exact same magnetic spots on the hard disk.
Bah... I don't believe in inodes. Everyone knows that inodes aren't real. I think they are nothing more than an elaborate farce, concocted by Linus Torvalds to sell more Penguins(tm).
Re:LESS IS MORE - THE VOLKSWAGEN OF COMPUTERS
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The rest of the world wants off the madly spinning Upgrade and New PC carousel.
Leave the cutting edge, bleeding edge stuff to geeks, gamers and slashdotters.
Give me my Volkswagen Beetle computer, please!
I agree with you 100%. The problem though, is that most people are driven by fear to buy (what they percieve to be) the latest and greatest machine available. They are afraid their expensive machine is going to "become obsolete" too soon. The average joe (or jane) buys a new PC once every four or five years I'd wager. It's a fairly significant event for them, much like buying a car. They are not going to upgrade it. They are merely going to use it for their myraid mundane tasks, until their local geek (usually a microsoftie) tells them it's obsolete, at which point they plunk down another $2000 and the cycle begins anew. In addition, they don't know the difference between a hardware and a software problem. Example: I have a very intelligent friend who is clueless about computers (amongst other things). Her parents bought her a very expensive Dell Workstation, running Windows NT, for use as a college dorm PC. It was percieved as being the "best available" machine at the time. So naturally after a year or so passes, the thing starts getting the BSOD during bootup, as NT tends to do. Her computer was now "Broken". What did daddy do? He went and ordered another new one for her and threw the old one away, of course. This was after I explained that it was a software problem and that NT would simply need to be reinstalled. To him, it was like a car in an auto accident - he was convinced that even after being repaired, it would never be the same again and never function as well as it used to. It is this general ignorance that is driving new PC sales, on a consumer PC level at least.
Equally guilty are the major software makers who bloat their applications with poorly written code and large clunky frameworks that now require a Pentium 4 to run seemingly simple tasks like word processing, web browsing, and listening to music. But this is nothing new. I remember in 1997 when I was in college and Napster was King. mpg123 would play my MP3's just fine on a Pentium-120 (Running RedHat 4.2 IIRC), while my buddy couldnt get his P200 (Running Win95) to play an MP3 without skipping.
Lastly, it's a problem of component cost. With the razor thin profit margins in PC hardware, why would anyone sell you a brand new 486 for $80 (making $1.50 profit in the process) when they can sell you a P4EE for $2500 and make $150.00 profit. It's a business thing. Not to mention the fact that no one at all would buy the 486 for the reasons I've outlined above.
Ok, my brain hurts now just thinking about it, so I'm finished ranting here folks.
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Bah... that proves nothing. Have you not used MD5SUM before, young Jedi?
I have a Windows 2000 Server and a Windows 2000 Professional machine that I swear to GOD I NEVER have to reboot, unless I'm installing some piece of hardware/software that requires it.
I think at one point I had the server up for ~180 days straight, I was amazed at the totals in the "process run-time" in Task Manager.
I sure hope this wasn't on any kind of a network. Last year, Microsoft had 60 (yes, SIXTY) security patches released. That's more than one per week. And yes, each one requires a reboot of the server. Sounds like you and your 180 days are a sitting duck for hackers.
I've got an OpenVMS cluster that hasnt been rebooted since 1999 and an IBM AIX box that's been up since 2001. They just work.
Fact is, Microsoft does not have an enterprise-class operating system when every security patch requires a reboot, every device driver install requires a reboot, and every application install requires not only a reboot, but that you close all other running applications during the install. That's just not enterprise level. For these reasons, anyone who uses a Windows server for any sort of 24/7 mission critical application, is just an old-fashioned idiot.
We think we can do a good job since the Slashdot editors represent a diverse spectrum of political ideologies.
Left, More-Left, and Extreme-Left. There, is that an accurate representation of slashdot's "diverse spectrum of political ideologies"? Me thinks so.
Another slashdotter got it right when he said "They should call it \. instead, since most it's readers lean to the left.
Now remember class, John Kerry voted FOR the DMCA, didn't he? Oh wait, maybe he voted against it. On second thought, I think he voted for it *before* he voted against it. Or was it the other way around?
Man... There's gotta be a Soviet Russia joke hiding in there somewhere...
Academics & Athletics are hardly the only two criteria when selecting a college or university. Other major factors include cost, availability of scholarships, location (who wants to go to school in Bumfuck McNowhere?), campus crime rate, how the school is ranked for your particular major, dorm room amenities (is the school in Texas and the dorms don't have A/C?), yada, yada, yada.
Point is, if you select one school over another just to get a free ipod, you are an idiot.
- Keep your dorm room locked.
- Keep your laptop in your backpack and keep it with you at all times.
- Bring lots of quarters for the laundry machines.
- Buy your books from Amazon or B&N online. Schools inflate the prices waaay high.
- Use lubricated condoms - the dry ones are uncomfortable (for you and her both).
Oh wait, you read slashdot. You won't be needing that last one.
worth trying, and that you might be able to avoid the repair, depending on how bad things are. Just like a radiator sealant. If the hole's small enough, you've saved a lot of money; if it's big, you've just thrown away a few dollars trying to save a lot of cash.
Fixed the leak perhaps... but in the process you'll wear out your waterpump prematurely and coat the inside of your cylinder head with funky goo.
Back to the PC world... Why spend $40 on questionable software to speed up your PC when you can spend $40 on a stick of RAM and KNOW that your PC will be faster?
I once made a RJ45-to-3prong AC adapter. It pretty much destroys any ethernet cards on the same switch as you. Oh and the switch gets trashed too and you end up having to find a new job.
I think another reason moz is gaining on IE is that many banks and financial institutions are starting to get a clue and are coding their web pages to be compatible on multiple platforms. For a while, IE was a requirement to log into any sort of on-line banking. I guess this last wave of IE vulnerabilities was the straw that broke the camels back, and people are finally deciding to switch.
Does it work? Yes, this advertises a boost, but so do a bunch of products for cell phones that are purely decorative.
I had to sell these for a small retail store, and to this day I feel guilty. A local newstation did an expose where they found there was zero conductive material at all in these stickers.
I think a big clue is located in the disclaimer at the bottom of the page:
"No Warranty. ALL SALES ARE FINAL....NO CLAIM IS MADE THAT THIS ITEM WILL INCREASE YOUR SIGNAL."
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Hey Jerkface, You dont just go post a video to slashdot but offer it only in WMV format. That's just rude.
That proves everything. They have the same inode number -- they *are* the same file. Not identical streams of bits (which is all md5sum would prove) but the exact same magnetic spots on the hard disk.
Bah... I don't believe in inodes. Everyone knows that inodes aren't real. I think they are nothing more than an elaborate farce, concocted by Linus Torvalds to sell more Penguins(tm).
The rest of the world wants off the madly spinning Upgrade and New PC carousel. Leave the cutting edge, bleeding edge stuff to geeks, gamers and slashdotters. Give me my Volkswagen Beetle computer, please!
I agree with you 100%. The problem though, is that most people are driven by fear to buy (what they percieve to be) the latest and greatest machine available. They are afraid their expensive machine is going to "become obsolete" too soon. The average joe (or jane) buys a new PC once every four or five years I'd wager. It's a fairly significant event for them, much like buying a car. They are not going to upgrade it. They are merely going to use it for their myraid mundane tasks, until their local geek (usually a microsoftie) tells them it's obsolete, at which point they plunk down another $2000 and the cycle begins anew. In addition, they don't know the difference between a hardware and a software problem. Example: I have a very intelligent friend who is clueless about computers (amongst other things). Her parents bought her a very expensive Dell Workstation, running Windows NT, for use as a college dorm PC. It was percieved as being the "best available" machine at the time. So naturally after a year or so passes, the thing starts getting the BSOD during bootup, as NT tends to do. Her computer was now "Broken". What did daddy do? He went and ordered another new one for her and threw the old one away, of course. This was after I explained that it was a software problem and that NT would simply need to be reinstalled. To him, it was like a car in an auto accident - he was convinced that even after being repaired, it would never be the same again and never function as well as it used to. It is this general ignorance that is driving new PC sales, on a consumer PC level at least. Equally guilty are the major software makers who bloat their applications with poorly written code and large clunky frameworks that now require a Pentium 4 to run seemingly simple tasks like word processing, web browsing, and listening to music. But this is nothing new. I remember in 1997 when I was in college and Napster was King. mpg123 would play my MP3's just fine on a Pentium-120 (Running RedHat 4.2 IIRC), while my buddy couldnt get his P200 (Running Win95) to play an MP3 without skipping.
Lastly, it's a problem of component cost. With the razor thin profit margins in PC hardware, why would anyone sell you a brand new 486 for $80 (making $1.50 profit in the process) when they can sell you a P4EE for $2500 and make $150.00 profit. It's a business thing. Not to mention the fact that no one at all would buy the 486 for the reasons I've outlined above.
Ok, my brain hurts now just thinking about it, so I'm finished ranting here folks.
Bah... that proves nothing. Have you not used MD5SUM before, young Jedi?
I have a Windows 2000 Server and a Windows 2000 Professional machine that I swear to GOD I NEVER have to reboot, unless I'm installing some piece of hardware/software that requires it. I think at one point I had the server up for ~180 days straight, I was amazed at the totals in the "process run-time" in Task Manager.
I sure hope this wasn't on any kind of a network. Last year, Microsoft had 60 (yes, SIXTY) security patches released. That's more than one per week. And yes, each one requires a reboot of the server. Sounds like you and your 180 days are a sitting duck for hackers.
I've got an OpenVMS cluster that hasnt been rebooted since 1999 and an IBM AIX box that's been up since 2001. They just work. Fact is, Microsoft does not have an enterprise-class operating system when every security patch requires a reboot, every device driver install requires a reboot, and every application install requires not only a reboot, but that you close all other running applications during the install. That's just not enterprise level. For these reasons, anyone who uses a Windows server for any sort of 24/7 mission critical application, is just an old-fashioned idiot.
We think we can do a good job since the Slashdot editors represent a diverse spectrum of political ideologies.
Left, More-Left, and Extreme-Left. There, is that an accurate representation of slashdot's "diverse spectrum of political ideologies"? Me thinks so.
Another slashdotter got it right when he said "They should call it \. instead, since most it's readers lean to the left.
Now remember class, John Kerry voted FOR the DMCA, didn't he? Oh wait, maybe he voted against it. On second thought, I think he voted for it *before* he voted against it. Or was it the other way around?
Man... There's gotta be a Soviet Russia joke hiding in there somewhere...
Academics & Athletics are hardly the only two criteria when selecting a college or university. Other major factors include cost, availability of scholarships, location (who wants to go to school in Bumfuck McNowhere?), campus crime rate, how the school is ranked for your particular major, dorm room amenities (is the school in Texas and the dorms don't have A/C?), yada, yada, yada.
Point is, if you select one school over another just to get a free ipod, you are an idiot.
Isn't "Linux Gaming" an oxymoron, sort of like "Windows Security"?
Why does your secretary need 1.8 GHz instead of 1.6 GHz?
For a REALLY intense game of Solitaire. Either that or for some REALLY intense ebay bidding sessions.
It's gotta be one of those two because that's all she freaking does for eight hours a day.
Why did they make the screen so short?
- The strength of FIVE GORILLAS and X-Ray vision!! But why so short?
- That's as big as they come!!
- Keep your dorm room locked.
- Keep your laptop in your backpack and keep it with you at all times.
- Bring lots of quarters for the laundry machines.
- Buy your books from Amazon or B&N online. Schools inflate the prices waaay high.
- Use lubricated condoms - the dry ones are uncomfortable (for you and her both).
Oh wait, you read slashdot. You won't be needing that last one.
I like to tell my girlfriend that "Women do not belong in positions of authority". That's usually about two seconds before she slaps me.
When MIT announces the first robot president, I'll be listening.
Yeah, but you put your brain in a robot body? You'd have the strength of FIVE GORILLAS!
So now these wacky tree-hugging liberals are now using terrorist tactics? I'll bet Kerry organized this crap.
- These are not the ads you're looking for.
- You can go about your business.
- Move along.
They talk about how to pick a lock with a pen, bobbe pin, sciccors, and everyones favorite the paperclip.
I think you would have been better served by an article on grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
I just bought an ibook G4, and with very light loads (i.e. word processing) it gets a full SIX hours of battery life.
Watching a DVD I can get about 3.5 hours (enough for ROTK)
Running a LARGE multi-threaded software compile using fink (i.e. CPU is pegged continuously at 100%), I get about 2.5 hours.
Sure beats the crap laptop I have for work - a Compaq N1020v which gets 60 minutes on a GOOD day doing nothing but word processing...
How bout we just pipe the whole thing to /dev/bollocks because that's what happened last time.
In soviet Russia you felt your windows are too fast, especially when the wind is strong.
/dev/bollocks you stupid arse! You got it all wrong!!!
You stupid dolt! You've just piped the Soviet Russia joke to
worth trying, and that you might be able to avoid the repair, depending on how bad things are. Just like a radiator sealant. If the hole's small enough, you've saved a lot of money; if it's big, you've just thrown away a few dollars trying to save a lot of cash.
Fixed the leak perhaps... but in the process you'll wear out your waterpump prematurely and coat the inside of your cylinder head with funky goo.
Back to the PC world... Why spend $40 on questionable software to speed up your PC when you can spend $40 on a stick of RAM and KNOW that your PC will be faster?
I once made a RJ45-to-3prong AC adapter. It pretty much destroys any ethernet cards on the same switch as you. Oh and the switch gets trashed too and you end up having to find a new job.
as a bonus, the reservoir can be used as an aquarium.
Just what I needed, fish shit circulating over my Athlon. No thanks.
has a traffic ranking of 1, whatever that means.
I think it probably has something to do with this.. Or maybe it doesn't.... YOU DECIDE!!
I think another reason moz is gaining on IE is that many banks and financial institutions are starting to get a clue and are coding their web pages to be compatible on multiple platforms. For a while, IE was a requirement to log into any sort of on-line banking. I guess this last wave of IE vulnerabilities was the straw that broke the camels back, and people are finally deciding to switch.
Does it work? Yes, this advertises a boost, but so do a bunch of products for cell phones that are purely decorative. I had to sell these for a small retail store, and to this day I feel guilty. A local newstation did an expose where they found there was zero conductive material at all in these stickers.
...NO CLAIM IS MADE THAT THIS ITEM WILL INCREASE YOUR SIGNAL."
I think a big clue is located in the disclaimer at the bottom of the page:
"No Warranty. ALL SALES ARE FINAL.