If you have to run 3VMs simultaneously at home i damn sure hope you have a decent system. I have a phenom 2 x4, 6gb ram, and 3 hard drives, and running server 2k8 x 3 instances at once is a bitch with vmware workstation (which is what i have to use) and would still probably be a bitch with something else.
requiring any student to run 3 VMs at once on a home pc is a hell of a requirement and, imo, pretty unreasonable. expecting that you can run office 2007 is one thing, but multiple VMs is another.
I think theyd be able to sell a netbook easily enough, if they wanted to make something cheapish and small will full blown OS X. I wouldnt be personally interested in it, and Im not personally interested in this, but I can see the appeal. I like using my netbook as....well as a laptop. Typing some homework now and again, watching videos on the laptop or online, moving pictures around when I travel, chatting with my kids on a webcam, whatever I desire. But thats me....some people will definitely enjoy the iPad and thats fine, and I totally get it.
Personally Id rather have an upgraded netbook (with better battery life and an ion chipset or something, I got an early eee model) and a new smartphone (i have an aging bb curve w/out 3g) and Id be pretty pleased.
to be fair, some FPS mods and multiplayer mods offer 1 shot; 1 kill play...it usually just caters to a small group of players who dig that, but it can be fun. i think Red Orchestra was one to do this early on several years ago as a UT mod. I *loved* it.
Call of Duty:World at War (maybe others?) can have the multiplayer mode set for 1 shot-1 kill, not that there are loads of servers offering that but it exists. I prefer bolt-action only servers which usually operate that way
It appears that you missed some level of social networking during school. I volunteered to work for the sysadmin at the community college I go to...I graduate in may and will go to uni in the fall, in the meantime, he put in a good word for me and it helped me get an internship at a sizeable area hospital that will look *great* on my resume (if they dont hire me when i finish uni)
my issue with console gaming is....the games i like, i cant play well on a console. RTS games and FPS games require, for me, a keyboard and mouse....i just cant get the knack of a controller well enough to be any good and those, and theyre my favorite types of games.
thing is, with more and more drm creeping in, im about ready to sell my video card and look for a ps3. ive been playing dragon age and just found out that the downloaded content means i cant play *ANY* saved game with said content if im not logged in. my internet connection is pretty reliable....but thats just not acceptable to me.
with half life 2, i ran into the issue where i have a boxed copy but couldnt play because id forgotten how to access my old steam account....it took 3 days and me sending in a picture of the case with another special code to access my account so i could play a game i WAS HOLDING IN MY HAND.
world at war? love that game. love it. despite having to login to access my account to play online, when i had to reinstalled after a windows 7 upgrade...my account had been reset, all my accomplishments etc. i could play...but it was annoying as hell to have to redo everything i had already done.
i dont mind drm to an extent..i get it. requiring the disc can be annoying but fine, whatever, a disc and a key...but making it a pure hassle to play irks me to no end. i should be able to play without a net connection, i have the content, its here legitimately, leave me the fuck alone already.
the only games ive bought in the last few months were cheap games on STEAM specials, where for the $5 or so i figured it was worth it. thing is...i dont have to be on steam to play them all, it has an offline mode.
it would drive me nuts...but I like keeping lots of shit open for easy navigation. 23" 1080p lcd....i dont need *anything* maximized unless im working on spreadsheets or coding (the latter is pretty rare)
then again, I have a second monitor...for lots more stuff. I like information overload/wouldnt need a second if windows had something comparable to compiz//dont ask, its a necessity right now
Ive been using windows again for a while (due to school requirements and personal media preferences), so I cant cite specifics, but ubuntu has so much little shit change for every release that it annoys the fuck out of me. Move this option there, change this option, remove that one altogether, rename something...and release kernel updates every 45 god damn minutes.
I miss two things about linux more than anything: software management and compiz. The windows 7 interface is an improvement over xp in a few ways, but it still doesnt match how I liked my compiz desktop.
I tried debian a while back but it was a bitch to get some of my (admittedly newish) hardware working that ubuntu had zero issues with
oh well....maybe when im done with school Ill try again.
ive about given up on linux for the time being. i love some things about it, and used it for a while. but between school and entertainment...its just not worth booting into. i cant watch my blu ray movies, streaming netflix movies, play my games, or run visual studio and dreamweaver properly in WINE. office 2007 worked at one point. in addition, when i tried debian it was a bitch to get my hardware going....when i tried ubuntu, hardware worked but getting sleep or hibernate was iffy, nevermind the other issues i already mentioned.
its just not a good fit for me right now. i wish it was, i far prefer compiz to the interface of windows 7.
I think it's below acceptable unless you are really on the ball and have a lot of things automated and properly organized and little to no emergency troubleshooting to deal with. At the community college I attend there is one Network Admin and 2 help desk goons. Admin *only* deals with network-related problems and basic telephone system issues. Helpdesk just helps out with end-user workstation issues. They seem to get along well enough, but the admin has lots of old software and hardware and an old PBX to deal with, and desperately needs a qualified assistant. Im working as his assistant with the work-study program but Im not experienced or knowledgeable enough to help the way he really needs it. I can deal with maybe 30% or 40% of what is on his "to do" list considering the limited access and experienced I have.
Now, he said at another school years ago he managed 2500 PCs by himself with a handful of work-study students, but my understanding is that the network was in better shape than where he is presently.
yeah, i use linux and have my exteral drive formatted as NTFS
honestly, i cant recall having a single write-related problem and i do raw DVD video often enough. linx NTFS support has been solid for me for well over a year now.
really, i cant think of a cell provider now that i dont hear some serious level of bitching about. im in rural eastern nc, the main provider here is us cellular. its meh. cdma phones/coverage.
who is actually a good provider that people arent always bitching about? US Cellular has good customer service and rates, but older phones and a slow network
everyone says verizon locks down the phones that at&t has bad customer service and so-so coverage sprint has horrible customer service t-mobile has limited coverage areas
does anyone have a provider that, for the most part, they are happy with?
seriously. i bought a delve because with us cellular at the time my only affordable options were the touchscreen delve or the blackberry curve 8830 or some such. the delve has a gps in it, i didnt travel enough to buy a stand alone, so i thought...nice. i cant use the gps when im roaming, at all, its completely useless. i wasnt told this when i purchased it. i dont need local gps...im from local. when i complained later the sales rep giggled. what a jackass.
the delve is a worthless piece of garbage and ill be buying a blackberry after new years.the delve is slow, regularly freezes and sometimes hard locks, the interface is crap, some things are in stupid places....it was justa horrible decision on my part, even though reviews i read said it wasnt a bad phone at all.
It's only a matter of time til companies start offering "legal insurance" ala "health insurance." loopholes, exception, and insane rates included./i may be behind the times on this one as it is
which is nice if you have a lawyer friend or an attorney on retainer...wheres the poll on/., id love to see how many people actually pay for that, or would be willing to spend the money to have a lawyer do such a thing.
This is getting more and more ridiculous. Why is the/. front page so regularly putting up basic tech support questions? And what is someone doing reading slashdot when they arent capable of doing a few minutes of googling to find out something basic like this for themselves?
Maybe slashdot would do well to affiliate itself with a site with regular tech support forums and point such questions that way...or maybe the editors could just pick a forum and point people to it. Arstechnica and Anandtech both have forums with lots of archived threads on all sorts of technical issues and questions, for example. Doubtless there are others.
Someone submitting such a basic question should be pointed to "How to ask questions the smart way" and google. Theyd do well to learn how to do things on their own a little bit.
this. a good friend of mine has had severe anxiety and depression for years. she can, however, force herself out every now and again and have a good time. it doesnt change that shes got issues that cause her lots of hardship and problems, despite her seeing a few different doctors and trying various mediciations and therapies over the years.
id sooner expect them to argue that if youre freezing yourself with the intent of thawing out, you arent actually dead and, as such, are not eligible to collect the life insurance monies.
I lived in Kansas for a year, and distinctly recall thinking "if I won the lottery, Id come here, buy up one of these countless craptastic mini "towns" and set the whole god damn thing on fire"
I could have potentially done certain residents a favor...and my coworkers called me crazy. HA!
fwiw, ive used linux on the desktop for about 3 years but have used windows 7 regularly since the RC build was released to the public several months agoo (because i built a new rig, wanted to game...but not pay for the OS)
its actually quite stable, being basically a big upgrade on vista. in the RC the sleep settings didnt work very well, but that has been resolved in the Pro release. i was surprised to wake my computer up one morning, find that it had downloaded updates in the middle of the night and put itself back to sleep while saving the wordpad doc i had left open with some notes in it.
I dont care to read it, and i hated writing with it. i could probably manage to use it, more or less, if i had to, but its been many, many years since i had to.
oh they dont need to know how and why. when my aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer she decided to look into radical natural diet and exercise changes to try and avoid chemo and a mastectomy. growth halted in the tumors for well over a year, she lost weight, felt better than ever before.
good for her. she also got rid of her microwave oven. while she wont come right out and say it to most of the family, she believe the radiation can mutate food in the microwave and cause her body harm. wow.
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seconded.
If you have to run 3VMs simultaneously at home i damn sure hope you have a decent system. I have a phenom 2 x4, 6gb ram, and 3 hard drives, and running server 2k8 x 3 instances at once is a bitch with vmware workstation (which is what i have to use) and would still probably be a bitch with something else.
requiring any student to run 3 VMs at once on a home pc is a hell of a requirement and, imo, pretty unreasonable. expecting that you can run office 2007 is one thing, but multiple VMs is another.
I think theyd be able to sell a netbook easily enough, if they wanted to make something cheapish and small will full blown OS X. I wouldnt be personally interested in it, and Im not personally interested in this, but I can see the appeal. I like using my netbook as....well as a laptop. Typing some homework now and again, watching videos on the laptop or online, moving pictures around when I travel, chatting with my kids on a webcam, whatever I desire. But thats me....some people will definitely enjoy the iPad and thats fine, and I totally get it.
Personally Id rather have an upgraded netbook (with better battery life and an ion chipset or something, I got an early eee model) and a new smartphone (i have an aging bb curve w/out 3g) and Id be pretty pleased.
to be fair, some FPS mods and multiplayer mods offer 1 shot; 1 kill play...it usually just caters to a small group of players who dig that, but it can be fun. i think Red Orchestra was one to do this early on several years ago as a UT mod. I *loved* it.
Call of Duty:World at War (maybe others?) can have the multiplayer mode set for 1 shot-1 kill, not that there are loads of servers offering that but it exists. I prefer bolt-action only servers which usually operate that way
It appears that you missed some level of social networking during school. I volunteered to work for the sysadmin at the community college I go to...I graduate in may and will go to uni in the fall, in the meantime, he put in a good word for me and it helped me get an internship at a sizeable area hospital that will look *great* on my resume (if they dont hire me when i finish uni)
my issue with console gaming is....the games i like, i cant play well on a console. RTS games and FPS games require, for me, a keyboard and mouse....i just cant get the knack of a controller well enough to be any good and those, and theyre my favorite types of games.
thing is, with more and more drm creeping in, im about ready to sell my video card and look for a ps3. ive been playing dragon age and just found out that the downloaded content means i cant play *ANY* saved game with said content if im not logged in. my internet connection is pretty reliable....but thats just not acceptable to me.
with half life 2, i ran into the issue where i have a boxed copy but couldnt play because id forgotten how to access my old steam account....it took 3 days and me sending in a picture of the case with another special code to access my account so i could play a game i WAS HOLDING IN MY HAND.
world at war? love that game. love it. despite having to login to access my account to play online, when i had to reinstalled after a windows 7 upgrade...my account had been reset, all my accomplishments etc. i could play...but it was annoying as hell to have to redo everything i had already done.
i dont mind drm to an extent..i get it. requiring the disc can be annoying but fine, whatever, a disc and a key...but making it a pure hassle to play irks me to no end. i should be able to play without a net connection, i have the content, its here legitimately, leave me the fuck alone already.
the only games ive bought in the last few months were cheap games on STEAM specials, where for the $5 or so i figured it was worth it. thing is...i dont have to be on steam to play them all, it has an offline mode.
bah.
it would drive me nuts...but I like keeping lots of shit open for easy navigation. 23" 1080p lcd....i dont need *anything* maximized unless im working on spreadsheets or coding (the latter is pretty rare)
then again, I have a second monitor...for lots more stuff. I like information overload /wouldnt need a second if windows had something comparable to compiz //dont ask, its a necessity right now
Ive been using windows again for a while (due to school requirements and personal media preferences), so I cant cite specifics, but ubuntu has so much little shit change for every release that it annoys the fuck out of me. Move this option there, change this option, remove that one altogether, rename something...and release kernel updates every 45 god damn minutes.
I miss two things about linux more than anything: software management and compiz. The windows 7 interface is an improvement over xp in a few ways, but it still doesnt match how I liked my compiz desktop.
I tried debian a while back but it was a bitch to get some of my (admittedly newish) hardware working that ubuntu had zero issues with
oh well....maybe when im done with school Ill try again.
thats what she said! /cries
ive about given up on linux for the time being. i love some things about it, and used it for a while. but between school and entertainment...its just not worth booting into. i cant watch my blu ray movies, streaming netflix movies, play my games, or run visual studio and dreamweaver properly in WINE. office 2007 worked at one point. in addition, when i tried debian it was a bitch to get my hardware going....when i tried ubuntu, hardware worked but getting sleep or hibernate was iffy, nevermind the other issues i already mentioned.
its just not a good fit for me right now. i wish it was, i far prefer compiz to the interface of windows 7.
I think it's below acceptable unless you are really on the ball and have a lot of things automated and properly organized and little to no emergency troubleshooting to deal with. At the community college I attend there is one Network Admin and 2 help desk goons. Admin *only* deals with network-related problems and basic telephone system issues. Helpdesk just helps out with end-user workstation issues. They seem to get along well enough, but the admin has lots of old software and hardware and an old PBX to deal with, and desperately needs a qualified assistant. Im working as his assistant with the work-study program but Im not experienced or knowledgeable enough to help the way he really needs it. I can deal with maybe 30% or 40% of what is on his "to do" list considering the limited access and experienced I have.
Now, he said at another school years ago he managed 2500 PCs by himself with a handful of work-study students, but my understanding is that the network was in better shape than where he is presently.
yeah, i use linux and have my exteral drive formatted as NTFS
honestly, i cant recall having a single write-related problem and i do raw DVD video often enough. linx NTFS support has been solid for me for well over a year now.
really, i cant think of a cell provider now that i dont hear some serious level of bitching about. im in rural eastern nc, the main provider here is us cellular. its meh. cdma phones/coverage.
who is actually a good provider that people arent always bitching about? US Cellular has good customer service and rates, but older phones and a slow network
everyone says verizon locks down the phones
that at&t has bad customer service and so-so coverage
sprint has horrible customer service
t-mobile has limited coverage areas
does anyone have a provider that, for the most part, they are happy with?
seriously. i bought a delve because with us cellular at the time my only affordable options were the touchscreen delve or the blackberry curve 8830 or some such. the delve has a gps in it, i didnt travel enough to buy a stand alone, so i thought...nice. i cant use the gps when im roaming, at all, its completely useless. i wasnt told this when i purchased it. i dont need local gps...im from local. when i complained later the sales rep giggled. what a jackass.
the delve is a worthless piece of garbage and ill be buying a blackberry after new years.the delve is slow, regularly freezes and sometimes hard locks, the interface is crap, some things are in stupid places....it was justa horrible decision on my part, even though reviews i read said it wasnt a bad phone at all.
ill never buy another samsung phone.
It's only a matter of time til companies start offering "legal insurance" ala "health insurance." loopholes, exception, and insane rates included. /i may be behind the times on this one as it is
which is nice if you have a lawyer friend or an attorney on retainer...wheres the poll on /., id love to see how many people actually pay for that, or would be willing to spend the money to have a lawyer do such a thing.
yeah, and bill them for any time they use outside the retainer.
Maybe slashdot would do well to affiliate itself with a site with regular tech support forums and point such questions that way...or maybe the editors could just pick a forum and point people to it. Arstechnica and Anandtech both have forums with lots of archived threads on all sorts of technical issues and questions, for example. Doubtless there are others.
Someone submitting such a basic question should be pointed to "How to ask questions the smart way" and google. Theyd do well to learn how to do things on their own a little bit.
this. a good friend of mine has had severe anxiety and depression for years. she can, however, force herself out every now and again and have a good time. it doesnt change that shes got issues that cause her lots of hardship and problems, despite her seeing a few different doctors and trying various mediciations and therapies over the years.
id sooner expect them to argue that if youre freezing yourself with the intent of thawing out, you arent actually dead and, as such, are not eligible to collect the life insurance monies.
I lived in Kansas for a year, and distinctly recall thinking "if I won the lottery, Id come here, buy up one of these countless craptastic mini "towns" and set the whole god damn thing on fire"
I could have potentially done certain residents a favor...and my coworkers called me crazy. HA!
its a fun term, but not as fun as "bob loblaw's law blog"
Bob Loblaw's Law Blog
fwiw, ive used linux on the desktop for about 3 years but have used windows 7 regularly since the RC build was released to the public several months agoo (because i built a new rig, wanted to game...but not pay for the OS)
its actually quite stable, being basically a big upgrade on vista. in the RC the sleep settings didnt work very well, but that has been resolved in the Pro release. i was surprised to wake my computer up one morning, find that it had downloaded updates in the middle of the night and put itself back to sleep while saving the wordpad doc i had left open with some notes in it.
I dont care to read it, and i hated writing with it. i could probably manage to use it, more or less, if i had to, but its been many, many years since i had to.
oh they dont need to know how and why. when my aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer she decided to look into radical natural diet and exercise changes to try and avoid chemo and a mastectomy. growth halted in the tumors for well over a year, she lost weight, felt better than ever before.
good for her. she also got rid of her microwave oven. while she wont come right out and say it to most of the family, she believe the radiation can mutate food in the microwave and cause her body harm. wow.