Ummmm no. The spec says 1500W for the 96 processor one, not 150W. The PSU won't be too big really. I have a deskside SGI Challenge L. The PSU is rated at 2500W (!!!) and it's only about 2-3 times the size of a normal ATX PSU.
Your computer becomes a spam zombie within minutes of being connected to the Internet.
or
Outlook Express has no junk mail filtering.
or
Your screen becomes deluged with popup windows with no escape because closing one opens about ten others.
Seriously though, I'm staggered at the volume of bugfixes here. What's sad though is that a product made it to market with this many bugs still in it. Windows is supposed to be a 'mature' product by now. Clearly it isn't. Many of the bugs describe stuff that's just broken full stop and should really have been removed before XP was released, ie: You cannot preview a fax in the Fax Console.. Others sound like simple program logic errors, which shold never have happenned in the first place. I particularly liked: Windows XP stops responding (hangs) when you log off the computer if more than one user is logged on. WTF?
Genoa uses advanced real-time algorithms and modifications to the color display elements to translate existing video data into multi-primary color, recreating the three-dimensional gamut of film.
Why is it that all these new technologies that manage to 'enhance' existing data turn out to be bullshit?
If there was talk of some end to end process to capture the 'RGBCMY' data, then store, and reproduce it at the other end, I'd be convinced. But, I'm not, because they're creating the new data from nowhere, and you can't do that.
OK, a short and sweet article... that says it all really except for possible outcomes.
Far from reducing confusion, I think this release will harm Microsoft's image in the far east. Considering just how crippled this version is, $39 or whatever it's being sold for is really far too much. Hooray, a tenth of the features for only half the price. This will clearly harden their image over there as being overpriced.
As for the three application limit being to simplify things for the users, what are they smoking? What makes them think that just because the users are first time customers, they've never used a computer before? Of course they have, with pirated copies of XP Pro, or Linux of course. This crippleware will fool nobody.
Still, at least we can be thankful that the guys at MS still haven't got a clue how to deal with the rise of Linux and friends. I'm frankly baffled at how they came up with this idea in the first place.
Personally, I'm all in favour of poison-pill Windows Update deliveries for unlicensed copies of Windows. I'm quite sure they've thought of that one, but quickly ruled it out because it'd end up harming their monopoly, and that's all they have to hold onto really.
My IBM Thinkpad was on the passenger seat when I had a head-on collision at 40MPH. Over all the noise and smashing as the car crumpled up, I still remember the awful plasticky rattle as it bounced off the dashboard and crashed into the footwell. It survived - and has worked perfectly to date, and I'm typing on it now!:-)
Novell (specifically Mark McManus and Simon Lidgett) came this week and outlined their Linux strategy in a talk to our LUG, WYLUG.
They seem to be pretty fired up about stuff. Their next generation product will be "Open Enterprise Server", which can run either on Netware or Linux as a base OS.
They seem very into cross-platform and compatibility, in particular with respect to authentication, single sign-on and all that.
I use TMDA to filter incoming messages, and tag outgoing ones.
I sign up to mailing lists using listname@mydomain.com, then use TMDA to:
Rewrite the From: address to the one the list knows about, eg: gentoo@jamesholden.net
Generate a time-limited address for the Reply-To: header, which only works for a week.
This means that I never post to the list from the wrong address, and people on the list can reply to me without being issued a challenge/response mail.
Actual list traffic is sorted into a folder based on the List-ID: header.
One reason I use mirror.ac.uk is for it's rsync support. You can guarantee that large downloaded files are intact, and repair broken ones by just transferring the corrupt parts.
If you get a glitch during a regular download and the MD5's don't match, rsync usually corrects it in a matter of a couple of minutes instead of downloading it all over again.
As we all suspect, this whole, baseless, possibly illegal charade is a desparate act by a desparate company. Look at the facts:
They admit they have no source of revenue except "leveraging intellectual property".
McBride fails to understand that the GPL just sits on top of existing copyright law, so even if it is defated in court (which it won't be) they will be in an even worse position.
That they don't see how their own position is weakened by them distributing Linux themselves. Surely their own developers aren't so stupid as to not spot their own code in the Linux kernel (to paraphrase PJ).
You don't argue with IBM. Full stop. Period.
As an amusing aside, the other day I was visiting a friend of my wife's at her work. My 1 year old was with me, and, having wandered away for a second or so, my ears picked up the sound of SCSI hard discs spinning down. Fearing that I might be in the running for a few hours unpaid work bringing up some ancient Netware box (they're a bit low-tech where this gal works), I hastily powered the box back up. What had my 1 year old accidently powered off...? A SCO Unix box! Good on 'yer mate!
If the GPL was weak, it would have been demolished a long time ago, says mr. common bloody sense. The fact that it's still here is testement to it's solidity.
Besides, if the license fails, standard copyright laws prevail. Remember, the GPL gives you additional rights over normal copyright law. If the GPL fails, you lose your rights to use the code, not gain them.
I have a few workstations on my home LAN, my laptop, my wife's PC etc... and they rsync/home over to the server upstairs every hour on a cron job.
Also, I have a server colocated a couple of hours down the road, and the data from the server at home is rsynced to the colo'd server every night.
The server at home also does an rsync of any important data from the colo'd box back to home every night.
For large amounts of mostly static data, I use a DDS-3 drive on the server at home.
When talking to the colo server, rsync runs over ssh, with public key encryption.
It works an absolute treat. Having lost data in the past it does wonders for my peace of mind. Now, all I have to do is get my wife to hit Ctrl-S every now and again, or her data never hits the disk in the first place!
Yes, but it's a matter of the right tools for the right job. Some filesystems work well with large numbers of small files, some with small numbers of large files. If I were building a mailserver with Maildir mail directories, or a squid proxy server, I'd consider Reiser because of the large numbers of small, often-changed, files involved. Comparing like for like is very difficult these days because of the complexity of stuff.
Well, of course you can't guard against hardware failure, but I think in the context of the announcement it was clear enough that the risk of buggy code corrupting the filesystem was reduced. Don't forget, Hans Reiser himself describes the code as beta.
I use it here, though and have never had any problems. ext3 on the other hand, has mangled filesystems for me on several occasions.
If you're trying to counterfeit money, why would you be loading it up into photoshop to edit it in the first place? I rather though counterfeit money was supposed to be identical to the originals. Maybe this would have been better implemented in printer hardware (or just not at all, cos it's dumb).
The only reason I've ever edited images of currency was to produce joke bills with somebody elses face on them, or 1,000,000 notes.
What they are patenting here is really a business method, not a piece of software. Patenting business mathods is legal in the USA, but not Europe, thank goodness!
It's amusing to note that the business method of patenting obvious ideas then using the patent to extort money from innocent individuals has yet to be patented. (I think I've just found the missing step before "Profit!!!!").
For anybody looking for a small, fast distro, I would highly recommend Gentoo. The performance is amazing once all the bits have been compiled. My Gentoo P-III 500MHz laptop encodes oggvorbis at about the same rate as my 1.3GHz Duron, which is running a straight RH9 install.
I don't really understand how this distro can be faster, than others if it is still a binary distribution.
Nah... I've spent years working with PCs on testbenches. When you've got half a dozen machines on the go doing installs/diagnostics/whatever and only one keyboard and mouse, you just have to hot-swap.
I must have plugged and unplugged PS/2 peripherals a gazillion times and never fried anything. There's just a fused 5V line and two TTL data lines. Unless you manage to force the connector in backwards there's nothing really to go wrong.
On a side note, when I worked for a national PC chain store, my boss once made me (against my better judgement) give a new keyboard and mouse to a woman who had to bring her PC in twice (both times customer caused faults) and her stupid 10 year old had mangled all the pins on the plugs, trying to screw them in or something. I showed her my bench keyboard and mouse plugs, and pointed out that they're connected about 1000 times a day. She said "Yes, but you're specially trained"! Duh!
Oh yeah.... and the rebooting is a Windoze thing. Here's a nickle, kid, get yourself a proper OS, as they say (/me ducks!).
I was laid off from a national retail PC chain... they told everybody else in the saturday morning meeting, but I had the day off. I phoned up a friend from work the following day, to see if he fancied going out for a beer, and he expressed his condolences. Of course, I didn't have a clue what he was talking about until he explained ("Uh, you're sorry to hear about what, exactly?").
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Ummmm no. The spec says 1500W for the 96 processor one, not 150W. The PSU won't be too big really. I have a deskside SGI Challenge L. The PSU is rated at 2500W (!!!) and it's only about 2-3 times the size of a normal ATX PSU.
What? You want the beer goggles without the beer? What's wrong with you!
Your computer becomes a spam zombie within minutes of being connected to the Internet.
or
Outlook Express has no junk mail filtering.
or
Your screen becomes deluged with popup windows with no escape because closing one opens about ten others.
Seriously though, I'm staggered at the volume of bugfixes here. What's sad though is that a product made it to market with this many bugs still in it. Windows is supposed to be a 'mature' product by now. Clearly it isn't. Many of the bugs describe stuff that's just broken full stop and should really have been removed before XP was released, ie: You cannot preview a fax in the Fax Console.. Others sound like simple program logic errors, which shold never have happenned in the first place. I particularly liked: Windows XP stops responding (hangs) when you log off the computer if more than one user is logged on. WTF?
Why is it that all these new technologies that manage to 'enhance' existing data turn out to be bullshit?
If there was talk of some end to end process to capture the 'RGBCMY' data, then store, and reproduce it at the other end, I'd be convinced. But, I'm not, because they're creating the new data from nowhere, and you can't do that.
Far from reducing confusion, I think this release will harm Microsoft's image in the far east. Considering just how crippled this version is, $39 or whatever it's being sold for is really far too much. Hooray, a tenth of the features for only half the price. This will clearly harden their image over there as being overpriced.
As for the three application limit being to simplify things for the users, what are they smoking? What makes them think that just because the users are first time customers, they've never used a computer before? Of course they have, with pirated copies of XP Pro, or Linux of course. This crippleware will fool nobody.
Still, at least we can be thankful that the guys at MS still haven't got a clue how to deal with the rise of Linux and friends. I'm frankly baffled at how they came up with this idea in the first place.
Personally, I'm all in favour of poison-pill Windows Update deliveries for unlicensed copies of Windows. I'm quite sure they've thought of that one, but quickly ruled it out because it'd end up harming their monopoly, and that's all they have to hold onto really.
My IBM Thinkpad was on the passenger seat when I had a head-on collision at 40MPH. Over all the noise and smashing as the car crumpled up, I still remember the awful plasticky rattle as it bounced off the dashboard and crashed into the footwell. It survived - and has worked perfectly to date, and I'm typing on it now! :-)
Oh this is just toooo funny! RTFA, troll. Novell just bought SuSE, so they're now a big Linux vendor.
They seem to be pretty fired up about stuff. Their next generation product will be "Open Enterprise Server", which can run either on Netware or Linux as a base OS.
They seem very into cross-platform and compatibility, in particular with respect to authentication, single sign-on and all that.
Every friggin' day?
How much are Apple paying them for all this obsessive iPod coverage then?
I sign up to mailing lists using listname@mydomain.com, then use TMDA to:
- Rewrite the From: address to the one the list knows about, eg: gentoo@jamesholden.net
- Generate a time-limited address for the Reply-To: header, which only works for a week.
This means that I never post to the list from the wrong address, and people on the list can reply to me without being issued a challenge/response mail.Actual list traffic is sorted into a folder based on the List-ID: header.
If you get a glitch during a regular download and the MD5's don't match, rsync usually corrects it in a matter of a couple of minutes instead of downloading it all over again.
I think if I were investgating an unknown noise, and then my spacesuite malfunctioned, bits of it becoming damp would be a certainty!
As an amusing aside, the other day I was visiting a friend of my wife's at her work. My 1 year old was with me, and, having wandered away for a second or so, my ears picked up the sound of SCSI hard discs spinning down. Fearing that I might be in the running for a few hours unpaid work bringing up some ancient Netware box (they're a bit low-tech where this gal works), I hastily powered the box back up. What had my 1 year old accidently powered off...? A SCO Unix box! Good on 'yer mate!
I sell distros through my website, fastdiscs.com. I sell more copies of Mandrake GPL than all the other distros put together. It's quite phenomenal.
Distro of the week though? MEPIS. Try it, it's fantastic!
James
some_removethis_body@example.com
wrongly deobfuscated to
some__body@example.com
Besides, if the license fails, standard copyright laws prevail. Remember, the GPL gives you additional rights over normal copyright law. If the GPL fails, you lose your rights to use the code, not gain them.
Also, I have a server colocated a couple of hours down the road, and the data from the server at home is rsynced to the colo'd server every night.
The server at home also does an rsync of any important data from the colo'd box back to home every night.
For large amounts of mostly static data, I use a DDS-3 drive on the server at home.
When talking to the colo server, rsync runs over ssh, with public key encryption.
It works an absolute treat. Having lost data in the past it does wonders for my peace of mind. Now, all I have to do is get my wife to hit Ctrl-S every now and again, or her data never hits the disk in the first place!
OK, granted. It would be a nice job for ImageMagick, you could easily automate it with a simple shell script once you'd done some initial processing.
Yes, but it's a matter of the right tools for the right job. Some filesystems work well with large numbers of small files, some with small numbers of large files. If I were building a mailserver with Maildir mail directories, or a squid proxy server, I'd consider Reiser because of the large numbers of small, often-changed, files involved. Comparing like for like is very difficult these days because of the complexity of stuff.
I use it here, though and have never had any problems. ext3 on the other hand, has mangled filesystems for me on several occasions.
The only reason I've ever edited images of currency was to produce joke bills with somebody elses face on them, or 1,000,000 notes.
It's amusing to note that the business method of patenting obvious ideas then using the patent to extort money from innocent individuals has yet to be patented. (I think I've just found the missing step before "Profit!!!!").
I don't really understand how this distro can be faster, than others if it is still a binary distribution.
I must have plugged and unplugged PS/2 peripherals a gazillion times and never fried anything. There's just a fused 5V line and two TTL data lines. Unless you manage to force the connector in backwards there's nothing really to go wrong.
On a side note, when I worked for a national PC chain store, my boss once made me (against my better judgement) give a new keyboard and mouse to a woman who had to bring her PC in twice (both times customer caused faults) and her stupid 10 year old had mangled all the pins on the plugs, trying to screw them in or something. I showed her my bench keyboard and mouse plugs, and pointed out that they're connected about 1000 times a day. She said "Yes, but you're specially trained"! Duh!
Oh yeah.... and the rebooting is a Windoze thing. Here's a nickle, kid, get yourself a proper OS, as they say (/me ducks!).
I was laid off from a national retail PC chain... they told everybody else in the saturday morning meeting, but I had the day off. I phoned up a friend from work the following day, to see if he fancied going out for a beer, and he expressed his condolences. Of course, I didn't have a clue what he was talking about until he explained ("Uh, you're sorry to hear about what, exactly?").