Let's introduce a bunch of corrupt union ring leaders into our ranks. Let's not get better pay, or better jobs but instead have to pay union rates as well. THE HELL WITH THAT.
Get your head out of your ass. If you were a good admin you could get a good job that doesn't involve your sitting in some tiny cube overworked and underpaid. I work 9-5, make 6 figures, and I love the power that leaving at any time gives me. I am incharge of my group and we work well together. We work with each other not for each other.
My suggestion, get a better job and do not ruin things for the rest of us. If you were any good you would be able to get a job that you would actually enjoy.
(And you could do it on your own if you tried.)
-sirket
(Sorry for the inflamatory post but I will be damned if I will let a bunch lazy people freeload off the hard work that the rest of us put in. Good jobs are out there and are not hard to find. Or better yet, found your own company and make things better.)
Why are articles like this always published without doing any research. How could the author state that NetBSD, and OpenBSD were products of BSDI? They are in no way related.... oh well.
It always amazes me how anonymous cowards are the only ones who post rude comments such as yours. The previous posters comments were exactly on target, which you would know if you had ever done _ANY_ graphics programming in your life. VRAM is used for textures not polygons. Newer hardware based T&L engines will change this but they are not commonplace yet. People are having trouble coding for this system because it is new and nothing else. In 6 months to a year you will see unbelievable games out that will blow away anything the DreamCast has to offer.
Finally, there is nothing illegal about purchasing exclusive rights to a software line. If you make a deal with a game company to only release their software for your platform there is nothing wrong with that. It is only illegal if you force or otherwise coerce them to ink said deal.
Umm.... what rift between FreeBSD and OpenBSD? Theo split off from the NetBSD crowd _NOT_ the FreeBSD crowd. And the two most widely used BSD's are Net and FreeBSD not Free and Open BSD.
I am nto sure where you get your information but you may want to think about what you are writing before you write it.
Every one of these articles has been a fluff piece which does nothing to really explain the differences in design and philosophy between the Unix variants. Everyone one of these articles has said the exact same thing and it really doesn't help to keep posting them.
First, I set my phone to answer only with a key press and not when I open it.
Secondly, everyone here keeps recommending the nokia phones. My problem with the nokia phones is that Bell Atlantic doesn't (or at least didn't) support them. In New York, AT&T's receptions has been atrocious (The reason they are being sued in a class action law suit) and Sprints coverage out of New York (Meaning in areas like rural Maryland where I sometimes have to travel) sucks.
Get your facts straight. The startac does digital and analog. I have dropped my phone way too many times to count and it doesn't have a scratch on it. I will absolutely buy a motorola phone again.
Teach the kids the basics of UNIX systems. Try not to use Linux if at all possible because there are a variety of programs under Linux which do not work the way the rest of the Unices work. (Examples include the route command, the use of emacs over vi, and a variety of other GNU utilities that an OS such as solaris or hpux do not use.
You should either teach them on solaris x86 or one of the BSD variants. This will give them the most power when they get out into the IT world and are faced with an E4500 with mutiple NIC's and they need to turn off routing.
Except for the fact that the nokia phones put out about 3 times the radiation of other phone and they direct the waves right at your brain instead of away.
The startac is definitely a great phone. It is available with all of the major providers, has good battery life, a lot of features, is tiny and is indestructable (I have dropped mine down the subway stairs on numberous occasions and there isn't a scatch on it.
I have just one question: Why, if you are an individual, would you register a.com address instead of a.org?
I think all of these domain name dispute issues would be easy to resolve if people only registered.org's (like they are supposed to), ISP's only registered.net's (like they are supposed to) and companies registered.com's)
To just how awful this movie was. I saw it on opening night and there were several different reactions to this movie from the crowd. Several people fell asleep. Some people walked out. Some people did nothing but ridicule the movie. And some people, like myself, were so dumbfounded we could not comprehend how such an awful movie could have been made.
You need to get your facts straight. All CPU's which came after the Pentium (ie PPro, P][, etc) have done instruction translation. All of these processors have a semi RISC core which they translate x86 instructions to in order to execute them.
And just because they are doing translation, does not mean they are automatically slower. If the core is 5x faster than an equivalent P!!! core then the processors can still be faster despite doing translations. As you should well know, MHz is not everything.
I can not speak to their northern california offices but I was impressed with their maryland facility. The people their were fun and knew their stuff. They took their job seriously and the machine rooms and such were kept very very clean and orderly. Their new facility has 3 1.2 megawatt backup generators.
While down at their facility doing some consulting work the power company had a failure. The digex people worked very to make sure that it did not affect any of the client systems at that facility. The new facility they have built since then is rather impressive.
This is just not a valid argument. As with all technology, when it becomes standard the costs will plummet. Do you remeber when LCD projectors cost $20k dollars and barely had a resolution of 640X480 and were dark and burned out quickly. Now LCD projectors cost $1k, have incredible resolutions, are quite bright, and last a long time. Digital will become the standard and when it does theaters will find costs dropping not rising. It is not like 70mm projectors are cheap. They are actually extrememly expensive as well.
Having met the losers at the other registrars I would rather deal with internic. Register.com is full of clueless, useless admins. The same goes for the others.
As bad as internic is at least with a monopoly you only have to deal with one bunch of idiots. Now we have to deal with a bunch of groups of idiots... oh well
Who on Earth do you define as "most people"? I use as little GPL code as possible and certainly do not write it. I use the BSD License which is a lot more "free" than the GPL. Just my two cents.
Belkin is at the extreme low end of computer products and you would be well advised to stay away from them. Now as for KVM switches- For high end use consider one of the nice BlackBox KVM switches or a high end Raritan KVM switch. Basically these use a special connector which will not disconnect and cause problems. They can also be powered by the systems if the power supply dies or disconnects. For low-end use consider a PowerReach KVM switch from Compucable. An 8 port version is only about $325 and the cable sets are not expensive. It supports some of the features of the high end switches (Power from ps2 ports, on screen display) it comes in a rack mount configuration and is a very cool purple color. More importantly I have had no stability issues with these switches except when using it with my DEC Alphas (which are picky). You can search for powerreach or compucable at buy.com as they seem to have very good prices on this sort of thing. (Avoid datacom warehouse at all costs as they are a ripoff when it comes to most prices)
Exactly. If the entertainment industry stopped wasting a bazillion dollars on creating poor copy protection the cost for DVD's would not be so high and there would not be a problem.
The fact that they did not release a linux version to begin with was foolish. This, coupled with the fact that there is no recordable DVD format capable of recording a full movie means that the industry should not worry. If they are really worried they should simply not make home DVD players capable of reading large recordable DVD's when they come out. This wont stop large scale professional pirates or computer users however nothing will stop the large scale guys and computer users aren't a _huge_ segment of the market.
In the end the entertainment industry should just stop being such a pain. The grateful dead allowed fans to make copies of performances and then give those away and it did not stop the dead from becoming one of the wealthiest bands in history.
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Fabulous idea.
Let's introduce a bunch of corrupt union ring leaders into our ranks. Let's not get better pay, or better jobs but instead have to pay union rates as well. THE HELL WITH THAT.
Get your head out of your ass. If you were a good admin you could get a good job that doesn't involve your sitting in some tiny cube overworked and underpaid. I work 9-5, make 6 figures, and I love the power that leaving at any time gives me. I am incharge of my group and we work well together. We work with each other not for each other.
My suggestion, get a better job and do not ruin things for the rest of us. If you were any good you would be able to get a job that you would actually enjoy.
(And you could do it on your own if you tried.)
-sirket
(Sorry for the inflamatory post but I will be damned if I will let a bunch lazy people freeload off the hard work that the rest of us put in. Good jobs are out there and are not hard to find. Or better yet, found your own company and make things better.)
Why are articles like this always published without doing any research. How could the author state that NetBSD, and OpenBSD were products of BSDI? They are in no way related .... oh well.
-sirket
You're an idiot.
It always amazes me how anonymous cowards are the only ones who post rude comments such as yours. The previous posters comments were exactly on target, which you would know if you had ever done _ANY_ graphics programming in your life. VRAM is used for textures not polygons. Newer hardware based T&L engines will change this but they are not commonplace yet. People are having trouble coding for this system because it is new and nothing else. In 6 months to a year you will see unbelievable games out that will blow away anything the DreamCast has to offer.
Finally, there is nothing illegal about purchasing exclusive rights to a software line. If you make a deal with a game company to only release their software for your platform there is nothing wrong with that. It is only illegal if you force or otherwise coerce them to ink said deal.
-sirket
Why is something as important as a complete redesign of the FreeBSD SMP code sitting in the BSD only section and not on the main slashdot page?
Just curious
-sirket
Umm.... what rift between FreeBSD and OpenBSD? Theo split off from the NetBSD crowd _NOT_ the FreeBSD crowd. And the two most widely used BSD's are Net and FreeBSD not Free and Open BSD.
I am nto sure where you get your information but you may want to think about what you are writing before you write it.
-sirket
Every one of these articles has been a fluff piece which does nothing to really explain the differences in design and philosophy between the Unix variants. Everyone one of these articles has said the exact same thing and it really doesn't help to keep posting them.
-sirket
Amazingly enough, only Linux people actually use or like emacs (with a few minor exceptions). Everyone else uses (and loves) vi or vim.
Just a side note.
-sirket
I am running 4.0 on 4 machines here already and I love it. It is stable as can be and fast. And the feature set is incredible!
.... I am evaluating Windows 2k and for the first time a Microsoft OS does not make me want to hurl :)
As a side note
-sirket
First, I set my phone to answer only with a key press and not when I open it.
Secondly, everyone here keeps recommending the nokia phones. My problem with the nokia phones is that Bell Atlantic doesn't (or at least didn't) support them. In New York, AT&T's receptions has been atrocious (The reason they are being sued in a class action law suit) and Sprints coverage out of New York (Meaning in areas like rural Maryland where I sometimes have to travel) sucks.
Just my 2 cents.
-sirket
Get your facts straight. The startac does digital and analog. I have dropped my phone way too many times to count and it doesn't have a scratch on it. I will absolutely buy a motorola phone again.
-sirket
Teach the kids the basics of UNIX systems. Try not to use Linux if at all possible because there are a variety of programs under Linux which do not work the way the rest of the Unices work. (Examples include the route command, the use of emacs over vi, and a variety of other GNU utilities that an OS such as solaris or hpux do not use.
You should either teach them on solaris x86 or one of the BSD variants. This will give them the most power when they get out into the IT world and are faced with an E4500 with mutiple NIC's and they need to turn off routing.
-sirket
Except for the fact that the nokia phones put out about 3 times the radiation of other phone and they direct the waves right at your brain instead of away.
No thanks but I will stick with my StarTAC.
-sirket
The startac is definitely a great phone. It is available with all of the major providers, has good battery life, a lot of features, is tiny and is indestructable (I have dropped mine down the subway stairs on numberous occasions and there isn't a scatch on it.
-sirket
What can you possibly say to this? NetBSD simply runs on way to many things.
-sirket
I have just one question: Why, if you are an individual, would you register a .com address instead of a .org?
.org's (like they are supposed to), ISP's only registered .net's (like they are supposed to) and companies registered .com's)
I think all of these domain name dispute issues would be easy to resolve if people only registered
-sirket
To just how awful this movie was. I saw it on opening night and there were several different reactions to this movie from the crowd. Several people fell asleep. Some people walked out. Some people did nothing but ridicule the movie. And some people, like myself, were so dumbfounded we could not comprehend how such an awful movie could have been made.
-sirket
You need to get your facts straight. All CPU's which came after the Pentium (ie PPro, P][, etc) have done instruction translation. All of these processors have a semi RISC core which they translate x86 instructions to in order to execute them.
And just because they are doing translation, does not mean they are automatically slower. If the core is 5x faster than an equivalent P!!! core then the processors can still be faster despite doing translations. As you should well know, MHz is not everything.
-sirket
I can not speak to their northern california offices but I was impressed with their maryland facility. The people their were fun and knew their stuff. They took their job seriously and the machine rooms and such were kept very very clean and orderly. Their new facility has 3 1.2 megawatt backup generators.
While down at their facility doing some consulting work the power company had a failure. The digex people worked very to make sure that it did not affect any of the client systems at that facility. The new facility they have built since then is rather impressive.
Just what I saw in the maryland offices.
-sirket
This is just not a valid argument. As with all technology, when it becomes standard the costs will plummet. Do you remeber when LCD projectors cost $20k dollars and barely had a resolution of 640X480 and were dark and burned out quickly. Now LCD projectors cost $1k, have incredible resolutions, are quite bright, and last a long time. Digital will become the standard and when it does theaters will find costs dropping not rising. It is not like 70mm projectors are cheap. They are actually extrememly expensive as well.
-sirket
Having met the losers at the other registrars I would rather deal with internic. Register.com is full of clueless, useless admins. The same goes for the others.
As bad as internic is at least with a monopoly you only have to deal with one bunch of idiots. Now we have to deal with a bunch of groups of idiots... oh well
-sirket
Who on Earth do you define as "most people"?
I use as little GPL code as possible and certainly do not write it. I use the BSD License which is a lot more "free" than the GPL.
Just my two cents.
-sirket
I thought human beings had 46 chromosomes?
Belkin is at the extreme low end of computer products and you would be well advised to stay away from them.
Now as for KVM switches- For high end use consider one of the nice BlackBox KVM switches or a high end Raritan KVM switch. Basically these use a special connector which will not disconnect and cause problems. They can also be powered by the systems if the power supply dies or disconnects.
For low-end use consider a PowerReach KVM switch from Compucable. An 8 port version is only about $325 and the cable sets are not expensive. It supports some of the features of the high end switches (Power from ps2 ports, on screen display) it comes in a rack mount configuration and is a very cool purple color. More importantly I have had no stability issues with these switches except when using it with my DEC Alphas (which are picky). You can search for powerreach or compucable at buy.com as they seem to have very good prices on this sort of thing. (Avoid datacom warehouse at all costs as they are a ripoff when it comes to most prices)
-sirket
Exactly. If the entertainment industry stopped wasting a bazillion dollars on creating poor copy protection the cost for DVD's would not be so high and there would not be a problem.
The fact that they did not release a linux version to begin with was foolish. This, coupled with the fact that there is no recordable DVD format capable of recording a full movie means that the industry should not worry. If they are really worried they should simply not make home DVD players capable of reading large recordable DVD's when they come out. This wont stop large scale professional pirates or computer users however nothing will stop the large scale guys and computer users aren't a _huge_ segment of the market.
In the end the entertainment industry should just stop being such a pain. The grateful dead allowed fans to make copies of performances and then give those away and it did not stop the dead from becoming one of the wealthiest bands in history.
-sirket
By "trolls" I hope you are referring to JP himself and not the people who have to deal with his unique take on computer "Security".
-sirket