Negative. When sending my iBook back for repair this week the shipping notice explicitly stated that all iTunes Music Store bought music should be deauthorized on my computer since if they have to wipe my computer out I could lose access to the files even if I have them backed up. It really got me to thinking how inconvenient that is. I'm sure I could work with iTMS tech support to get it worked out, but why bother? I'll stick with conventional CDs and just rip them into iTunes the old fashioned way. If I can't rip a CD then there's always Bittorrent and Poison to fill in the gaps.
If you read the article carefully, you would have noticed that it cost him a whopping $0. For that much, how can you go wrong? It may not be the wootenest system ever, but its definitely neato.
He could've sold it on eBay and bought at least a half dozen brand new iPods. On the other hand, it does pain me to see that the e450s we bought about 4 years ago for $38,000 are now going for $2000. We should've bought a Mac as they hold their resale value better.
You missed the point. The entire dance act was extremely sexual. Nobody would have complained if that's all it was. But a NIPPLE pops out and OH, LORDY!
I think you're blowing that out of proportion. There were a few isolated moronic individuals who reacted that way, but for the most part nobody gave a damn. I informally polled just about everyone I know and they said it didn't bother them at all. Personally my thoughts were "egads, put that flabby floppy old tit away".
I hope this will be a good movie because we still have to forget he even did Matrix 2 and 3...
I was stupid enough to buy Matrix Reloaded thinking "I bought the first one, I might as well complete the trilogy". Oooh boy was I wrong. I didn't even bother watching Matrix Revolutions so I can only assume by comments that it sucks ass as much as the second movie. I'm going to burn my copy of Matrix Reloaded and just pretend there was only ever one Matrix movie, which rocked.
Software RAID bothers you? Get a cheap 3Ware hardware IDE RAID card. They work out of the box for all but the most old/obscure kernels.
I highly recommend the 3Ware SATA controllers (the 8500 series) and the older ATA 7500 series. They've worked great for my installations. I've got a 2 port 7000-2 Escalade in a server box doing RAID-1 between two 80 gig IDE disks, a 4 port 8500 SATA controller with 4 200GB disks doing RAID-5 in a media server, and at work we've got a nice big file server with three 8 port 8500 RAID controllers with 250GB SATA drives on it for about 5TB of storage storage across 3 volumes.
They're definitely not expensive either. The 2 port ones are about $100 and are head and shoulders above those crappy Promise RAID controllers that claim to be hardware RAID. The 4 port ones are around $300 and the 8 port ones around $500. They even have a 12 port version.
Your G3 iBook is probably slow because:
* Less L1 & L2 cache than the Pentium (this is the purpose of a PowerBook)
* You're probably not running with enough ram for OS X and your apps (512+ gives a good headroom)
* Did you buy the budget HDD for the iBook? This matters a lot.
* If the PIII is running Linux, obviously it will be faster.
You should actually try using a decent G5 for a couple days before you start slandering PPC.
If I could afford a G5 or a Powerbook why the heck would I have bought an iBook?;-) To answer your questions though, the cache issue could be very likely, but as for the memory, my Dell Inspiron 4000 has 256 megs of PC100 SDRAM and the iBook has 640 megs of PC100 SDRAM. Memory is not an issue as the machine is never swapping.
What exactly was the budget HDD for the iBook? There was only one option, 4200RPM 30GB drive which is the same speed as my Dell so that's a moot point. One thing vastly in it's favor though is that the iBook is virtually silent whereas the hard drive in my Dell reminds me of some old band-saw like noises my Sparc 5's SCSI drive used to make. It is very loud and very annoying to work with it for extended periods of time. Probably time to replace it.
The PIII is running Windows 2000 by the way.
Now, don't get me wrong, the iBook is a nice little machine, in fact I wouldn't have sent it in to Apple for the second time within 7 months for repair (first logic board died, second time now the backlight is dead) if I didn't think it was worth keeping. I like OS X but it's very hard to justify the cost premium for the Apple hardware in order to run it. For the $2300 a 15" Powerbook would cost with a DVD burner I could get a very nice eMachines laptp with an AMD64 chip in it for $1500 with more features, bigger hard drive, faster processor, etc. Oh well.
Which if these will be called the G6 is left up to the reader as an exercise. My money is on the 976. Either way the PPC has some serious legs.
Except it's legs are too expensive and too slow. Sorry folks, but x86 won the war. The ONLY reason I bought a Mac was to play with MacOS X. If it was ported to x86 tomorrow I would switch in an instant. PPC sucks donkey balls when it comes to speed. My 800MHz G3 iBook is horribly slow compared to my PIII-600 Intel laptop.
...because if the dual-core isn't socket 939, then he'd have to upgrade his mobo AGAIN when the cpu came out.
Isn't that fairly obvious though? I've always factored in the cost of a new motherboard and new memory to go along with any new CPU purchase because I know the crap I'll have will be obsolete in a year or two when I go to upgrade the CPU. I have NEVER upgraded to a faster CPU by swapping it out and keeping the same motherboard because then I feel cheated as I'm left with a CPU with no home. I then invariably feel I need to go buy a motherboard and processor to keep the old CPU company and I end up building a whole new (old) system to act as a Linux server. It gets expensive to upgrade!
In my experience of RAID-5, one third of the total capacity is lost to parity.
Let me guess, you've never used more than 3 drives in a RAID-5 configuration? Believe me, RAID-5 is n-1. If you've got 8 drives in the array then you'll get total space of 7. If you've got 500 drives in the array you'll have the space of 499 of them put together.
Maxtor had a failure rate of 25%. Right. Out. Of. The. Box. And that was for 80G drives that they'd been making for several years at that point. Today, they have a 60% failure rate over the first week (about the same OOB.)
Did these drives fall out of the back of a truck, bounce a few yards and land on your front doorstep by any chance? I've bought four 200GB Maxtor SATA drives and two 200GB Maxtor ATA drives in the past year and all have been fine. The 80 GB Maxtor ATA drive I have has been going fine for the past 3 years. I just bought a new 250 GB ATA drive so we'll see if I can get one that fails at which point I guess I take it back and get another.
just because you have warranty doesn't mean that your data is safe. Sure you would have replacement in your warrenty period but data lost is lost forever unless you backup;)
I don't care about the data, I care about dropping $400+ on a hard drive that dies after a year. Screw this building huge unreliable drives. Give me back the days when they built drives that lasted 10 years. I STILL have a 256MB drive going strong in my firewall running continuously for 10 years. You really reach a certain point where you have enough space already. I've got 1.6 terabytes worth of various drives around and I've got to worry about juggling the data around so it's redundant in case I lose one of these highly unreliable drives. It becomes a pain in the ass.
I waited so long for the invite! And I got exactly the name I wanted, given it's so early in the system's lifespan. Now I bask in the admiration of other geeks as they receive my e-mail from gmail.:-)
Umm, you do realize it's not going to be any cooler than a hotmail.com or yahoo.com address in about 6 months right? In fact, that reminds me that I should probably start filtering out mail from gmail.com addresses before the forged spam starts rolling in. I just run my own mailserver with my own domain and I have about 35 gigs free on my mail account right now.:-/
*BSD had (useful) IPv6 long before Linux thanks to kame. OpenBSD is also the last of them to get SMP support, even if it's pretty fresh in NetBSD too (a year or so).
That's like saying your car brand was the first to support running on both gasoline and optionally hydrogen. Good for you, but let me know when there's a hydrogen fueling station in my city, nay, my entire state, and I'll happily switch to your brand. IPv6 is irrelevent right now outside of lab environments and isolated networks (cell phone providers, etc.).
..and who is going to pay to run / admin the Jabber servers so that just anyone can fire up a single product and talk to anyone else using that product?
The same people who used to pay to run the IRC servers or the web servers or FTP servers. There was an Internet before AOL got here you know and it was run by many volunteers offering up their bandwidth and CPU cycles for free. They still do! How many game servers like Battlefield 1942 or Counter-Strike are run by the software publisher? Hardly any compared to the number of volunteer run servers.
I hope they do start charging for it. Perhaps then people will finally move to an open standard such as Jabber.
Jabber doesn't support videoconferencing or even just plain voice chat. That's a BIG advantage to AOL and Yahoo Messenger (and I think even MSN has it now). I wish Jabber would get support for it as well since that's the only reason my mother uses Yahoo Messenger.. and she IS willing to pay for it unfortunately.. she's addicted.
Also, the lack of central directories and servers with Jabber is kind of a turnoff to many people looking to meet new people.
My very 1st machine was an Acer 486/66 dx2 with 4 megs of ram and a 500 gig hd.
Damnit! Now you've done it. That's a call of challenge to old timers. It will devolve into someone saying their first computer had a 386 with 2 megs of ram, another that their first computer was an 8086 with 640KB ram, and an ancient troll will emerge saying their first computer was a Sinclair. Eventually this will devolve into someone saying they used to whistle tones over a phone line to connect to a BBS at which point someone will say "LUXURY! I had to use smoke signals and carrier pigeons to transport my data!"
So be smart and be careful, never quote the specs of your first computer.
My understanding was that Clear Channel only removed his show from a few target markets, not from all of their affiliate stations.
No, Clear Channel removed him from all their stations, but he was only on a handful of them. Stern's primary network is through Infinity owned stations.
is if the RIAA created a new digital radio that had a CDR in it, and the user could select "download & rip" for 1$ like in iTunes and the radio would compress the song into FLAC, ogg, or mp3, and burn it to the next track.
No, the RIAA's digital radio would automatically charge your credit card $18 per song which you would be able to replay as many times as you wanted* on that particular digital radio for a period of 24 hours.
* Note, does not include permission to play it to audiences greater than a single person. Everyone person must have their own $18/24hr license.
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Buy album.
Put on iPod.
Negative. When sending my iBook back for repair this week the shipping notice explicitly stated that all iTunes Music Store bought music should be deauthorized on my computer since if they have to wipe my computer out I could lose access to the files even if I have them backed up. It really got me to thinking how inconvenient that is. I'm sure I could work with iTMS tech support to get it worked out, but why bother? I'll stick with conventional CDs and just rip them into iTunes the old fashioned way. If I can't rip a CD then there's always Bittorrent and Poison to fill in the gaps.
He could've sold it on eBay and bought at least a half dozen brand new iPods. On the other hand, it does pain me to see that the e450s we bought about 4 years ago for $38,000 are now going for $2000. We should've bought a Mac as they hold their resale value better.
I think you're blowing that out of proportion. There were a few isolated moronic individuals who reacted that way, but for the most part nobody gave a damn. I informally polled just about everyone I know and they said it didn't bother them at all. Personally my thoughts were "egads, put that flabby floppy old tit away".
Just be sure not to run OpenSSH on it. It's not had a good track record over the past year.
I was stupid enough to buy Matrix Reloaded thinking "I bought the first one, I might as well complete the trilogy". Oooh boy was I wrong. I didn't even bother watching Matrix Revolutions so I can only assume by comments that it sucks ass as much as the second movie. I'm going to burn my copy of Matrix Reloaded and just pretend there was only ever one Matrix movie, which rocked.
I highly recommend the 3Ware SATA controllers (the 8500 series) and the older ATA 7500 series. They've worked great for my installations. I've got a 2 port 7000-2 Escalade in a server box doing RAID-1 between two 80 gig IDE disks, a 4 port 8500 SATA controller with 4 200GB disks doing RAID-5 in a media server, and at work we've got a nice big file server with three 8 port 8500 RAID controllers with 250GB SATA drives on it for about 5TB of storage storage across 3 volumes.
They're definitely not expensive either. The 2 port ones are about $100 and are head and shoulders above those crappy Promise RAID controllers that claim to be hardware RAID. The 4 port ones are around $300 and the 8 port ones around $500. They even have a 12 port version.
* Less L1 & L2 cache than the Pentium (this is the purpose of a PowerBook)
* You're probably not running with enough ram for OS X and your apps (512+ gives a good headroom)
* Did you buy the budget HDD for the iBook? This matters a lot.
* If the PIII is running Linux, obviously it will be faster.
You should actually try using a decent G5 for a couple days before you start slandering PPC.
If I could afford a G5 or a Powerbook why the heck would I have bought an iBook? ;-) To answer your questions though, the cache issue could be very likely, but as for the memory, my Dell Inspiron 4000 has 256 megs of PC100 SDRAM and the iBook has 640 megs of PC100 SDRAM. Memory is not an issue as the machine is never swapping.
What exactly was the budget HDD for the iBook? There was only one option, 4200RPM 30GB drive which is the same speed as my Dell so that's a moot point. One thing vastly in it's favor though is that the iBook is virtually silent whereas the hard drive in my Dell reminds me of some old band-saw like noises my Sparc 5's SCSI drive used to make. It is very loud and very annoying to work with it for extended periods of time. Probably time to replace it. The PIII is running Windows 2000 by the way.
Now, don't get me wrong, the iBook is a nice little machine, in fact I wouldn't have sent it in to Apple for the second time within 7 months for repair (first logic board died, second time now the backlight is dead) if I didn't think it was worth keeping. I like OS X but it's very hard to justify the cost premium for the Apple hardware in order to run it. For the $2300 a 15" Powerbook would cost with a DVD burner I could get a very nice eMachines laptp with an AMD64 chip in it for $1500 with more features, bigger hard drive, faster processor, etc. Oh well.
Errr, obviously I mean without network access. Although I'd spend less time on Slashdot so perhaps I can't get my work done with network access.
*Live* and *work* are too entirely different things. I could not get any of my work done with network access.
Except it's legs are too expensive and too slow. Sorry folks, but x86 won the war. The ONLY reason I bought a Mac was to play with MacOS X. If it was ported to x86 tomorrow I would switch in an instant. PPC sucks donkey balls when it comes to speed. My 800MHz G3 iBook is horribly slow compared to my PIII-600 Intel laptop.
Isn't that fairly obvious though? I've always factored in the cost of a new motherboard and new memory to go along with any new CPU purchase because I know the crap I'll have will be obsolete in a year or two when I go to upgrade the CPU. I have NEVER upgraded to a faster CPU by swapping it out and keeping the same motherboard because then I feel cheated as I'm left with a CPU with no home. I then invariably feel I need to go buy a motherboard and processor to keep the old CPU company and I end up building a whole new (old) system to act as a Linux server. It gets expensive to upgrade!
Let me guess, you've never used more than 3 drives in a RAID-5 configuration? Believe me, RAID-5 is n-1. If you've got 8 drives in the array then you'll get total space of 7. If you've got 500 drives in the array you'll have the space of 499 of them put together.
Did these drives fall out of the back of a truck, bounce a few yards and land on your front doorstep by any chance? I've bought four 200GB Maxtor SATA drives and two 200GB Maxtor ATA drives in the past year and all have been fine. The 80 GB Maxtor ATA drive I have has been going fine for the past 3 years. I just bought a new 250 GB ATA drive so we'll see if I can get one that fails at which point I guess I take it back and get another.
I don't care about the data, I care about dropping $400+ on a hard drive that dies after a year. Screw this building huge unreliable drives. Give me back the days when they built drives that lasted 10 years. I STILL have a 256MB drive going strong in my firewall running continuously for 10 years. You really reach a certain point where you have enough space already. I've got 1.6 terabytes worth of various drives around and I've got to worry about juggling the data around so it's redundant in case I lose one of these highly unreliable drives. It becomes a pain in the ass.
Umm, you do realize it's not going to be any cooler than a hotmail.com or yahoo.com address in about 6 months right? In fact, that reminds me that I should probably start filtering out mail from gmail.com addresses before the forged spam starts rolling in. I just run my own mailserver with my own domain and I have about 35 gigs free on my mail account right now. :-/
Slashdot operated under that philosophy for the first 2-3 years of it's existence. ;-)
What's the point of video conferencing without the audio? The only thing I can think of would be porn.
That's like saying your car brand was the first to support running on both gasoline and optionally hydrogen. Good for you, but let me know when there's a hydrogen fueling station in my city, nay, my entire state, and I'll happily switch to your brand. IPv6 is irrelevent right now outside of lab environments and isolated networks (cell phone providers, etc.).
The same people who used to pay to run the IRC servers or the web servers or FTP servers. There was an Internet before AOL got here you know and it was run by many volunteers offering up their bandwidth and CPU cycles for free. They still do! How many game servers like Battlefield 1942 or Counter-Strike are run by the software publisher? Hardly any compared to the number of volunteer run servers.
Jabber doesn't support videoconferencing or even just plain voice chat. That's a BIG advantage to AOL and Yahoo Messenger (and I think even MSN has it now). I wish Jabber would get support for it as well since that's the only reason my mother uses Yahoo Messenger.. and she IS willing to pay for it unfortunately.. she's addicted.
Also, the lack of central directories and servers with Jabber is kind of a turnoff to many people looking to meet new people.
Damnit! Now you've done it. That's a call of challenge to old timers. It will devolve into someone saying their first computer had a 386 with 2 megs of ram, another that their first computer was an 8086 with 640KB ram, and an ancient troll will emerge saying their first computer was a Sinclair. Eventually this will devolve into someone saying they used to whistle tones over a phone line to connect to a BBS at which point someone will say "LUXURY! I had to use smoke signals and carrier pigeons to transport my data!"
So be smart and be careful, never quote the specs of your first computer.
No, Clear Channel removed him from all their stations, but he was only on a handful of them. Stern's primary network is through Infinity owned stations.
No, the RIAA's digital radio would automatically charge your credit card $18 per song which you would be able to replay as many times as you wanted* on that particular digital radio for a period of 24 hours.
* Note, does not include permission to play it to audiences greater than a single person. Everyone person must have their own $18/24hr license.
Thanks for letting us know. Now that we know this is old news we can completely disregard it.
ROFL! Excellent troll. You had me on hello! :-)