I paid around $575 IIRC a year ago for an AMD Athlon 2GHz (actually 1.66), a 60GB HD, a DVD drive, 512MB RAM, NIC, modem, yada, yada - AND 64MB of GeForce VRAM.
Get serious.
Apple has ALWAYS COST MORE. No comparison.
And Apple is SINGLE-SOURCED so it will ALWAYS COST MORE.
Now, it's nice hardware and a nice GUI and since it's closed it can control the user experience better than Wintel can - and far better than Linux probably ever will - at least until IBM and HP start leaning on the hardware manufacturers to write drivers.
> Commercial vendors are in a drive toward > standaridzation, and working to turn computer > software, and the support needed to administer > it, into a commodity. The notion of returning to > the 1980's method of hiring 'consultants' to > engage in special code tweaks on their equipment > is antiquated
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
I'm sure the massive amount of money being made by Oracle's services division and IBM's and HP's and... Well, you get the picture.
Consultants are NOT going anywhere anytime soon - especially not to India.
You should read the Salon article about tech support at one of the big three computer hardware companies.
They hire people with NO COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE, put them through a two-week "training" course which consists of reiterating "We don't support that", then turn them loose on YOU.
They are judged based on whether they can hold a tech support call to under 12 minutes - PERIOD.
Nothing else matters to them, the outsourcing company they work for, or the computer manufacturer that hired the outsourcing company.
The IT industry does not care a whit about its customers or its employees - just like every other industry.
Forget tech support. Occasionally you will find someone who will actually try to solve your problem - but he's on his way out at that company if he does.
And all of it was invented by Paul and the Roman Church years later and has nothing to do with what Jesus actually taught as far as biblical scholarship and archaeology can determine, IIRC.
And Paul was a Roman double-agent recruited by the Jewish priests to infiltrate Jesus' movement. He was denounced by Jesus' brother, assaulted by an angry mob of Jesus' supporters, "checked in to protective custody" of the Romans, who were then tipped off that 40 of Jesus' followers were not going to eat, drink or sleep until they had killed him, and who then escorted him out of town back to Rome where he set up the Roman Church and proceeded to persecute the Jews in the name of their own prophet for the next two thousand years.
And here comes Mel "Conspiracy Theory" Gibson with an anti-Semitic radical Catholic father to continue the process.
It would be a fucking joke if the Catholic Church (and its various Christian schisms) hadn't killed so many people over the ensuing centuries - and are still trying to do so under Bush's leadership.
Re CD's: I just had to restore a backup made eighteen months ago on one of my machines (I needed an image backup, which I don't usually do, and that was the last one I did on this machine I haven't used in months). The four-disk image backup restored fine. A data file set of two CDs made on the same date would not restore properly, however - major sector errors. These were silk-screened CompUSA CDs (yeah, I know, cheap crap). I've read that if you put any kind of label on a CD, the glue will destroy your data within a year or so. Much safer to write on the CD with a marker made for that purpose.
I'm planning to make PAR files of my backups from now on so I can recover data on them. The Linux DAr (Disk Archive) program does that as part of its backup system.
As for hard disks crashing, well, the point of my post was that two disks separated by a network in different buildings are unlikely to crash at the same time. So if your backup server crashes, you back up again. If your main server crashes, the backup restores. And hard disks are VASTLY more reliable (and faster) than ANY other media when you consider how often they are accessed versus how often they crash. If the backup server is ONLY used for backups, it won't be accessed except when doing backups or restores and should be more reliable and last longer than any production server. And of course you can RAID that server.
All in all, compared to tape, CD, etc., hard disks are the best backup media in terms of reliability, speed, ease of use, etc.
But they have to be offsite to be used for corporate backups. Home users can take their chances with onsite backup. Of course, a home user can use a removable and stick a second one in a safe deposit box.
This statement: no hacker on this planet can hack my firewall.
That's overconfidence. How do you know your firewall doesn't have some exploit buried in it waiting to be discovered? Just because it's not writable doesn't mean it's logic can't be fooled or tricked into doing something bad.
I tried installing Kerio Personal Firewall 4.0 and it crashed repeatedly on Windows 98 (of course, it WAS Windows 98) and was very obtrusive with it's "a program just launched another program - what do I do?" prompts.
Kerio 2.15 is nice and quiet. Configure your outgoing stuff, and rarely hear from it again.
Arnold got elected because Big Business put money into his campaign because he cut a deal with Ken Lay to drop the $9 billion lawsuit against the energy companies which would have cut the state deficit considerably (had the lawsuit panned out, of course, which is another question).
Arnold sells his ass to anyone who pays - movie studios, Bush cronies, anyone.
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You left out: "and no dick..."
Well, that's what I heard!
(Anybody old enough here to remember Ghostbusters?)
There will be several hundred million copies of Linux in Asia.
Maybe still not more than Windows, but that will wake some driver manufacturers up, let's hope.
Better yet, we'll all be using Chinese and Japanese community-written drivers.
OTOH, if IBM, HP, and a few others would lean on some of these manufacturers and "convince" them to release Linux drivers...
I mean, an estimated eighteen million Linux users and these morons can't see a market that they COULD BE FIRST IN?
Managers should be shot.
Nice, but that's a kludge, too.
Dragging a floppy icon to a trash icon to eject it is simply STUPID DESIGN.
And the Mac, Windows, AND Linux ALL have TONS of STUPID DESIGN TRICKS built in just like it.
It ALL needs to be redesigned.
Because it's better than XP, duh, moron.
Have a nice day, troll.
...said the speculation that the operating system will come out in 2006 is 'probably valid.'
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
Buy this man a calendar!
Oh, wait, it will come out in DECEMBER 2006, yeah, that's it, DECEMBER, that's in 2006, right?
And Microsoft is going to invest in security!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
I can't respond....
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
> And it has 32MB of dedicated VRAM
Oh, wow, be still my heart...
I paid around $575 IIRC a year ago for an AMD Athlon 2GHz (actually 1.66), a 60GB HD, a DVD drive, 512MB RAM, NIC, modem, yada, yada - AND 64MB of GeForce VRAM.
Get serious.
Apple has ALWAYS COST MORE. No comparison.
And Apple is SINGLE-SOURCED so it will ALWAYS COST MORE.
Now, it's nice hardware and a nice GUI and since it's closed it can control the user experience better than Wintel can - and far better than Linux probably ever will - at least until IBM and HP start leaning on the hardware manufacturers to write drivers.
But it AIN'T CHEAPER.
> Commercial vendors are in a drive toward
> standaridzation, and working to turn computer
> software, and the support needed to administer
> it, into a commodity. The notion of returning to > the 1980's method of hiring 'consultants' to
> engage in special code tweaks on their equipment
> is antiquated
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
I'm sure the massive amount of money being made by Oracle's services division and IBM's and HP's and... Well, you get the picture.
Consultants are NOT going anywhere anytime soon - especially not to India.
Have a nice day.
> Word doesn't produce pdf files because thats not
> really a word processor format...
Oh, please...
What the fuck is a "word processor format"?
Is HTML?
Gimme a break.
DEATH TO VI!
You should read the Salon article about tech support at one of the big three computer hardware companies.
They hire people with NO COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE, put them through a two-week "training" course which consists of reiterating "We don't support that", then turn them loose on YOU.
They are judged based on whether they can hold a tech support call to under 12 minutes - PERIOD.
Nothing else matters to them, the outsourcing company they work for, or the computer manufacturer that hired the outsourcing company.
The IT industry does not care a whit about its customers or its employees - just like every other industry.
Forget tech support. Occasionally you will find someone who will actually try to solve your problem - but he's on his way out at that company if he does.
And so should you be.
At City College of San Francisco, my instructors also use PowerPoint and Word docs.
Open Office opens them fine in Windows and Linux and AbiWord opens DOC files fine under Linux.
The instructors aren't getting that fancy with their PowerPoints and Word docs that you need Office to handle them, most likely.
And all of it was invented by Paul and the Roman Church years later and has nothing to do with what Jesus actually taught as far as biblical scholarship and archaeology can determine, IIRC.
And Paul was a Roman double-agent recruited by the Jewish priests to infiltrate Jesus' movement. He was denounced by Jesus' brother, assaulted by an angry mob of Jesus' supporters, "checked in to protective custody" of the Romans, who were then tipped off that 40 of Jesus' followers were not going to eat, drink or sleep until they had killed him, and who then escorted him out of town back to Rome where he set up the Roman Church and proceeded to persecute the Jews in the name of their own prophet for the next two thousand years.
And here comes Mel "Conspiracy Theory" Gibson with an anti-Semitic radical Catholic father to continue the process.
It would be a fucking joke if the Catholic Church (and its various Christian schisms) hadn't killed so many people over the ensuing centuries - and are still trying to do so under Bush's leadership.
Re CD's: I just had to restore a backup made eighteen months ago on one of my machines (I needed an image backup, which I don't usually do, and that was the last one I did on this machine I haven't used in months). The four-disk image backup restored fine. A data file set of two CDs made on the same date would not restore properly, however - major sector errors. These were silk-screened CompUSA CDs (yeah, I know, cheap crap). I've read that if you put any kind of label on a CD, the glue will destroy your data within a year or so. Much safer to write on the CD with a marker made for that purpose.
I'm planning to make PAR files of my backups from now on so I can recover data on them. The Linux DAr (Disk Archive) program does that as part of its backup system.
As for hard disks crashing, well, the point of my post was that two disks separated by a network in different buildings are unlikely to crash at the same time. So if your backup server crashes, you back up again. If your main server crashes, the backup restores. And hard disks are VASTLY more reliable (and faster) than ANY other media when you consider how often they are accessed versus how often they crash. If the backup server is ONLY used for backups, it won't be accessed except when doing backups or restores and should be more reliable and last longer than any production server. And of course you can RAID that server.
All in all, compared to tape, CD, etc., hard disks are the best backup media in terms of reliability, speed, ease of use, etc.
But they have to be offsite to be used for corporate backups. Home users can take their chances with onsite backup. Of course, a home user can use a removable and stick a second one in a safe deposit box.
*They've* been "researching" human life for centuries.
And they're not extraterrestrial - they evolved here before we did and got nanotech before we did.
Now imagine trying to bend your wrist.
OTOH, if you take it off and hold it in your first, looks like it would make a nice set of "brass knuckles".
Wells Fargo in San Francisco did the same thing to me.
I stuck my card in and the machine ate it and locked up. Then it said it was down for maintenance!
You'd think the morons would have designed the stupid piece of junk to check to see if there was a card in the reader before shutting down!
This, too, was on a Saturday. I was told I could not get my card back until the bank opened on Monday. So much for my weekend.
As usual, Geek Morons design this crap.
If I ever meet him, I'll mention how much I HATE such methods.
I'm not even happy with v_variablename, c_cursorname in PLSQL - but I'll live with it.
Typing every variable in a program? Jeez...
This is the sort of person who embeds "useful" information in what is supposed to be a completely meaningless unique database key.
Morons. In fact, there should be a whole new classification of morons: Geek Morons.
This statement: no hacker on this planet can hack my firewall.
That's overconfidence. How do you know your firewall doesn't have some exploit buried in it waiting to be discovered? Just because it's not writable doesn't mean it's logic can't be fooled or tricked into doing something bad.
Too true.
I tried installing Kerio Personal Firewall 4.0 and it crashed repeatedly on Windows 98 (of course, it WAS Windows 98) and was very obtrusive with it's "a program just launched another program - what do I do?" prompts.
Kerio 2.15 is nice and quiet. Configure your outgoing stuff, and rarely hear from it again.
Tape needs retensioning (if reused) and also dies on the shelf (perhaps more slowly than CD's, perhaps not.)
Got a hard disk offsite to backup to?
The only solid solution.
Nothing new to see here. Move along.
> Do you believe Howard Stern should also be
> legally permitted to waggle his genitals in the
> face of a small child on the subway?
Yes, actually I do.
Sexually assaulting the child is entirely an another matter involving lack of consent and physical force.
No physical force is involved in "wagging genitals".
Any notion that children need to be "protected" from hearing the word "fuck" - as Chairman Powell has suggested - is FUCKING FASCISM.
"Legislation of morality" is FUCKING FASCISM.
Have a nice day, moron.
Two assholes making one target.
It doesn't get better than this.
Now if we could just get Time-Warner to go, too.
Arnold got elected because Big Business put money into his campaign because he cut a deal with Ken Lay to drop the $9 billion lawsuit against the energy companies which would have cut the state deficit considerably (had the lawsuit panned out, of course, which is another question).
Arnold sells his ass to anyone who pays - movie studios, Bush cronies, anyone.
Got enough money? Ah-nold is YOUR governor!