/. is where we often go to discuss the article. Since the parent of my post was mentioning some performance problems, I thought it'd be a good opportunity to highlight one of the most informative aspects of the article that the parent left out. To question it's informative mod would be to question the nature of/.: Very few posters read the summary, and fewer the articles. For these people, a post like this is quite informative.
Don't forget this: The server performance of the Apple platform is, however, catastrophic. When we asked Apple for a reaction, they told us that some database vendors, Sybase and Oracle, have found a way around the threading problems. We'll try Sybase later, but frankly, we are very sceptical. The whole "multi-threaded Mach microkernel trapped inside a monolithic FreeBSD cocoon with several threading wrappers and coarse-grained threading access to the kernel", with a "backwards compatibility" millstone around its neck sounds like a bad fusion recipe for performance.
Holy shit, you talked bad about Apple consumers whilst logged in? Man, you have balls. I've been Karma bombed (Can't mod anymore) on a few accounts for doing this.
I'm not going to argue as to why Laptop manufacturers are not getting sued, but at least Joe Consumer can go purchase a new battery after his ~320 Lithium Ion Cycles have been used up.
A few hundred bucks on an Ipod, and you can't change the battery? WTF? This isn't a 1985 Norelco Shaver!
Part of the problem is that cops don't have all the weapons they need to fight back. They clearly lack the financial resources to match their adversaries' technical skills and global reach. The FBI will spend just $150 million of a $5 billion fiscal 2005 budget on cybercrime -- not including personnel -- in spite of its being given the third-highest priority. (Terrorism and counterintelligence come first.)
Can someone explain when budgets and financial resources will not be a problem? Everywhere you look, this "boogeyman" is the first thing law enforcement/public good places blame their problems on. It seems to me that: #1. They tax us more. #2. They spend it on useless things. (more managers, assitants, Harley Davidson Police bikes, Corvette Police cars) #3. They say they don't have any money.
LNUX == Va Software Corporation (One of the hundreds of companies that sells Linux solutions/support, etc, and only one of the many that has something to do with promoting/contributing to Linux).
I bought the Dvorak one (It's actually a QWERTY with Dvorak in subscript), and I've found it difficult to learn Dvorak, but that's probably just me as opposed to the keyboard. AFAIK, there is no Bluetooth, but I have it in USB. It has two extra usb ports on the back so I found it quite easy to just plug my mouse into the keyboard.
I recommend the purchase, and if you're still learning dvorak, buy the dvorak (subscripted one). However, if you want to switch to Kinesis+Dvorak at the same time, it's gonna take quite a bit of adjustment.
parts of the bible you would have noticed that a) most of it MUST NOT be read literally, but as metaphors,
This is typical of the latest bible thumpers. 100 years ago, I'm sure everyone argued that everything in the bible was correct. Now, they're saying most of it is, and some parts are only metaphors. I can't wait to hear how people will justify it in 50 years.
While I've never been an HP fan, I'd be inclined to purchase one of these after reading the initial reviews. I'd be especially interested if it had an AMD processor. HP had one of the best laptop repair policies I've ever seen. Back when I did HP warranty work, one could send in a (broken for just about any reason) laptop, and pay a flat $400 fee for getting it fixed. While that may sound expensive, it's a heck of a lot cheaper than paying for the parts + labor for an LCD replacement. Additionally, it seems HP doesn't hide behind the "bad pixels are not a defect" policy. While some manufactures (*Cough* Apple, Dell) require that your LCD has at least 20+ bad pixels before they fix, I've seen HP repair laptops with 5 or less.
Obviously, this is anecdotal, and their policies may have changed.
I don't think it's just zero g, man. I've read Shuttlesworth's description of his space flight, and if this becomes a reality (and I my retirement stays on track), I'll be saving up for this.
Not to mention the fact that is has just as many (if not more) security vulnerabilities than Windows, and most of them are more absurd (Think using "at" to read anyone's files) than M$'s disclosed ones.
Indeed, the perfomance is terrible. Apple may have some people drinking it's koolaid, but it's gonna take more than that to convince me...
My grandmas Maxtor Diamondplus 8 just failed recently (boot would hang with it plugged in) - actually it wasn't a diamond plus, it just had a big ass sticker on it that said "Refurbished" - my bro bought her the cheapest computer he could, though she's not poor.
I jumped on to ebay and bought the best condition 40gb Diamondplus 8 w/ pictures that I could. Upon arrival, I swapped the logic board, recovered her data.
Maybe I just got insanely lucky? I don't know. I did this same thing a couple years ago on a quantum fireball and it worked just fine...
I recently upgraded a gentoo servers's curl package due to a security vulnerability. PHP was compiled with curl. Because php was broke (Couldn't load libcurl.something), apache was broke. Apache was broke, websites go down. Good thing it was a devel box.
Debian uses curl 7.9.5, which may be old, but they don't go jumping to 8.0. Nor do they jump around it mysql versions. Even better: They don't change glib, which gentoo breaks constantly.
It might be old, but they don't break things like gentoo.
Agreed, you could have a secondary server that just compiles, but I don't see that as an advantage over debian, I see it hindering me.
Note: I'm not trying to 'dis gentoo, I run it on about 8 machines, but running it on production servers you're not supposed to be touching is pretty much out of the question.
I can easily put "apt-get update;apt-get upgrade" in my crontab. Imagine if I put "emerge sync;emerge -uvD world" in my crontab!!! I'd have broken libraries left and right! Someday they'll get emerge security working (glsa-check or whatever), but even that won't fix the fundamental library/version jumping issues.
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/. is where we often go to discuss the article. Since the parent of my post was mentioning some performance problems, I thought it'd be a good opportunity to highlight one of the most informative aspects of the article that the parent left out. /.: Very few posters read the summary, and fewer the articles. For these people, a post like this is quite informative.
To question it's informative mod would be to question the nature of
Don't forget this:
The server performance of the Apple platform is, however, catastrophic. When we asked Apple for a reaction, they told us that some database vendors, Sybase and Oracle, have found a way around the threading problems. We'll try Sybase later, but frankly, we are very sceptical. The whole "multi-threaded Mach microkernel trapped inside a monolithic FreeBSD cocoon with several threading wrappers and coarse-grained threading access to the kernel", with a "backwards compatibility" millstone around its neck sounds like a bad fusion recipe for performance.
Holy shit, you talked bad about Apple consumers whilst logged in?
Man, you have balls. I've been Karma bombed (Can't mod anymore) on a few accounts for doing this.
I'm not going to argue as to why Laptop manufacturers are not getting sued, but at least Joe Consumer can go purchase a new battery after his ~320 Lithium Ion Cycles have been used up.
A few hundred bucks on an Ipod, and you can't change the battery? WTF? This isn't a 1985 Norelco Shaver!
That was the point I was trying to make...though you achieved it through sarcasm. In either case, it seems as if it's never going to end.
Part of the problem is that cops don't have all the weapons they need to fight back. They clearly lack the financial resources to match their adversaries' technical skills and global reach. The FBI will spend just $150 million of a $5 billion fiscal 2005 budget on cybercrime -- not including personnel -- in spite of its being given the third-highest priority. (Terrorism and counterintelligence come first.)
Can someone explain when budgets and financial resources will not be a problem? Everywhere you look, this "boogeyman" is the first thing law enforcement/public good places blame their
problems on.
It seems to me that:
#1. They tax us more.
#2. They spend it on useless things. (more managers, assitants, Harley Davidson Police bikes, Corvette Police cars)
#3. They say they don't have any money.
Rinse, lather, repeat?
LNUX != Linux
LNUX == Va Software Corporation (One of the hundreds of companies that sells Linux solutions/support, etc, and only one of the many that has something to do with promoting/contributing to Linux).
I've been in two different interviews where this question was posed. Both times I answered "Yes".
I got both jobs.
I bought the Dvorak one (It's actually a QWERTY with Dvorak in subscript), and I've found it difficult to learn Dvorak, but that's probably just me as opposed to the keyboard.
AFAIK, there is no Bluetooth, but I have it in USB. It has two extra usb ports on the back so I found it quite easy to just plug my mouse into the keyboard.
I recommend the purchase, and if you're still learning dvorak, buy the dvorak (subscripted one). However, if you want to switch to Kinesis+Dvorak at the same time, it's gonna take quite a bit of adjustment.
parts of the bible you would have noticed that a) most of it MUST NOT be read literally, but as metaphors,
This is typical of the latest bible thumpers. 100 years ago, I'm sure everyone argued that everything in the bible was correct. Now, they're saying most of it is, and some parts are only metaphors.
I can't wait to hear how people will justify it in 50 years.
While I've never been an HP fan, I'd be inclined to purchase one of these after reading the initial reviews.
I'd be especially interested if it had an AMD processor.
HP had one of the best laptop repair policies I've ever seen. Back when I did HP warranty work, one could send in a (broken for just about any reason) laptop, and pay a flat $400 fee for getting it fixed. While that may sound expensive, it's a heck of a lot cheaper than paying for the parts + labor for an LCD replacement.
Additionally, it seems HP doesn't hide behind the "bad pixels are not a defect" policy. While some manufactures (*Cough* Apple, Dell) require that your LCD has at least 20+ bad pixels before they fix, I've seen HP repair laptops with 5 or less.
Obviously, this is anecdotal, and their policies may have changed.
Your TV Phones YOU!
You gotta start somewhere. This has a lot in common with the worldly exploring our kind has been doing for 200,000 years (give or take).
I don't think it's just zero g, man. I've read Shuttlesworth's description of his space flight, and if this becomes a reality (and I my retirement stays on track), I'll be saving up for this.
Looks like it tries to connect to localhost:8002, seems you need to install the daemon too:)
OSX is _NOT_, NOT, Not and *NOT* FreeBSD!!!
OSX is _BASED_ off of Darwin, which is based off of _A_ BSD.
If OSX was FreeBSD, there would not be stupid shit like "At" vulnerabilities in OSX.
She did, but the infant was already deceased.
Well, that's what TFA said, anyway.
Makes it seem as if /. is just a bunch of australian mac lovers, doesn't it?
The Cylons designed the PS3 controllers!
Run for your lives!
Not to mention the fact that is has just as many (if not more) security vulnerabilities than Windows, and most of them are more absurd (Think using "at" to read anyone's files) than M$'s disclosed ones.
Indeed, the perfomance is terrible. Apple may have some people drinking it's koolaid, but it's gonna take more than that to convince me...
Yeah I left it too ambigious, it was my fault.
I should have put something about PAM in there.
which would of course do nothing to those of us with enough of a clue NOT to be using crisco...
Let me ask...
What do your providers use? How about your provider's providers?
Thought so.
My grandmas Maxtor Diamondplus 8 just failed recently (boot would hang with it plugged in) - actually it wasn't a diamond plus, it just had a big ass sticker on it that said "Refurbished" - my bro bought her the cheapest computer he could, though she's not poor.
I jumped on to ebay and bought the best condition 40gb Diamondplus 8 w/ pictures that I could.
Upon arrival, I swapped the logic board, recovered her data.
Maybe I just got insanely lucky? I don't know. I did this same thing a couple years ago on a quantum fireball and it worked just fine...
fim
Give me a hollar when you start getting people together to solve this. I'll bring some beer.
I recently upgraded a gentoo servers's curl package due to a security vulnerability.
PHP was compiled with curl.
Because php was broke (Couldn't load libcurl.something), apache was broke.
Apache was broke, websites go down.
Good thing it was a devel box.
Debian uses curl 7.9.5, which may be old, but they don't go jumping to 8.0. Nor do they jump around it mysql versions. Even better: They don't change glib, which gentoo breaks constantly.
It might be old, but they don't break things like gentoo.
Agreed, you could have a secondary server that just compiles, but I don't see that as an advantage over debian, I see it hindering me.
Note: I'm not trying to 'dis gentoo, I run it on about 8 machines, but running it on production servers you're not supposed to be touching is pretty much out of the question.
I can easily put "apt-get update;apt-get upgrade" in my crontab. Imagine if I put "emerge sync;emerge -uvD world" in my crontab!!! I'd have broken libraries left and right!
Someday they'll get emerge security working (glsa-check or whatever), but even that won't fix the fundamental library/version jumping issues.