Didn't you pay the signup fee? Thats where they get their money. My parents bought it three years ago and are still using it. It is PAINFULLY slow however, but for a one time fee of $70 what do you expect?
Don't need to impress the lady. Been w/ her for years. Like a wife.
Again, as stated in the post which you could have read more thoroughly, I got off AT THE NEXT EXIT. You even quoted it! If I had allowed them to stay near me anymore, they would have run me off the road. I don't like a large Dodge Ram swerving within a foot or so of me at highway speeds.
I don't go blowing by entrance ramps at 100mph, that would make me about as bright as the truck driver.
Ever done an emergency lane change at 80mph? I have. I have done full brake at over 100mph as you mentioned. No brake lockup though. Why? A well designed and maintained brake system. Car and Driver said (In the 3/97 issue) that it was the best brakes they have ever tested. I tested it myself. I believe it. Horrible noise though as the ABS cycles.
Autocross? You are right, it would be best to learn how to drive on a track. Thats kind of my point. I have not had the opportunity to do so myself, but I believe I drive quite well anyway.
Funny you mention Mario Andretti, well he did a test of the Supra, did 184mph in it and stated that it was the easiest car to handle at it's limits.
This all underscores my point. A well designed and maintained car w/ a good driver is the best way to lower accidents.
I am driving home from a friend's house one Friday night at about 1am. A truck pulls next to me and begins trying to race me. I ignore and at the next stop light he begins to yell and scream at me. He and his three friends are obviously drunk and angry. Further down the road he is following me, tailgating and driving in the other lane swerving into mine. His friends are hanging out the window yelling at me. My girlfriend is terrified. I slowly accelerate trying to leave him behind and he continues to follow. I put my foot on the floor (on a lonely highway that I drive often. Speed limit 65mph.) and because I have a sports car designed to be SAFE at high speeds I am able to leave him far behind. I held speeds well above 100mph until I got to the next exit a few miles down the road.
If cars are designed to handle higher speeds, and people are trained to handle their vehicles at those speeds, the roads would be safer today. My Supra is safer at 120mph on the highway than an Excursion is at 60mph.
Outlawing dumbshit drivers, and crapily designed vehicles would do a lot more to save lives than this BB monitoring crap.
You do not moderate something down because you disagree with it, you moderate it down because it is flamebait, or a troll or such. Otherwise I would moderate YOU down.
"ps - the machine still has 29meg of ram FREE - not buffered or shared - free as in totally unused with 128 connections. (160 meg of ram total.) Love to see the windows2000test.com box do that. "
LOL! This is great. Actually, I'd love to see the W2Ktest machine do ANYTHING right now. It's been down most of the day.
Looks like they finally got the router loops fixed though, but the machine is still not up. I wonder who's head is gonna roll in Redmond for this one? I'm sure the marketing genius who came up with this one didn't clear it with ole Billy-Boy...
Without going into details that I should not go into, we do not develop new hardware, but we do develop solutions using existing products/technologies. Products know to work with NT, just put into the mix with other existing products. So the fact that NT crashes under heavy load when Linux does not shows the stability of the OSs using existing technologies.
SP4 and we are revising our test plans to include SP5. I have not started reliability testing with SP5 yet.
I really could care less if you believe me or not. I have produced and re-produced these results over and over for the last 8 months. If it were NT that was actually more stable, I would be praising NT. But that is not the case.
Nope. I'm part of a development group and we do not make any of our findings public.
Too bad though. There is some really useful (IMO) information that we come up with, and I have been wanting to use the resources available to me to assist in Linux development. I am still exploring this.
In these lab environments you really get to know what makes a particular setup fsck up...
I work at a major computer manufacturer and my job is testing the stability of our enterprise storage solutions under different configurations. RH 6.0 Linux, NT 4 & 2000, NW 4.2 & 5, Solaris, etc.
I have done testing which shows that NT is less stable under heavy load (Heavy I/O for extended period, Linux has seen load averages well above 100 for extended periods without problems, NT quite often BSODs when the tests last at these levels last for extended periods) than Linux, even when using some 'beta' Linux drivers for our controllers.
This is not FUD, it is the truth.
It is ignorance, like what you are spreading, that is keeping Microsoft's pockets lined.
NT is a 9-second Mustang that has something major break every couple of runs.
Linux is a Toyota Supra Turbo (my example) that can make it down the track in 11s, but also corner, stop, and go hundreds of runs without problems.
Part of NT's speed is from specialized hooks into the kernel for IIS, and SMB. They traded stability for performance.
Linux' design concentrates on stability, rather than speed. No specialized proprietary hooks into the kernel that add complexity. Not quite as fast on the track, but you don't have it blow up every couple passes.
For the price difference between NT and Linux, you can always spread the load over an additional machine to get the performance and keep the stability.
There is no question for good administrators what is more important. I choose stability and well-roundedness over the 9-sec. mustang any day...
Hello, fellow Dell employee. I went to go get lunch at the Whataburger today (11a.m.), and it took me 50min round trip, and I went through the drive through!!!
(for those of you that don't know, the whataburger is only about 1 mile from Dell)
HA! I made the opposite move. I lived in El Paso and moved to Austin, after a short stay in Amarillo. The only thing I liked better about El Paso is it was 110 and DRY, instead of Austin's 105 and 95% humidity...
Yeah. The newest-gen DLT tapes on Ultra-LVD busses can hit near 400 MB/min. And this in on WINNT. I'd love to see what these baby's would do on a nice linux box. Unfortunately, that is not in our test plans.:(
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What's with the recent influx of MS's bitches to the list?
Didn't you pay the signup fee? Thats where they get their money. My parents bought it three years ago and are still using it. It is PAINFULLY slow however, but for a one time fee of $70 what do you expect?
Don't need to impress the lady. Been w/ her for years. Like a wife.
Again, as stated in the post which you could have read more thoroughly, I got off AT THE NEXT EXIT. You even quoted it! If I had allowed them to stay near me anymore, they would have run me off the road. I don't like a large Dodge Ram swerving within a foot or so of me at highway speeds.
I don't go blowing by entrance ramps at 100mph, that would make me about as bright as the truck driver.
Ever done an emergency lane change at 80mph? I have. I have done full brake at over 100mph as you mentioned. No brake lockup though. Why? A well designed and maintained brake system. Car and Driver said (In the 3/97 issue) that it was the best brakes they have ever tested. I tested it myself. I believe it. Horrible noise though as the ABS cycles.
Autocross? You are right, it would be best to learn how to drive on a track. Thats kind of my point. I have not had the opportunity to do so myself, but I believe I drive quite well anyway.
Funny you mention Mario Andretti, well he did a test of the Supra, did 184mph in it and stated that it was the easiest car to handle at it's limits.
This all underscores my point. A well designed and maintained car w/ a good driver is the best way to lower accidents.
Reality check.
I am driving home from a friend's house one Friday night at about 1am. A truck pulls next to me and begins trying to race me. I ignore and at the next stop light he begins to yell and scream at me. He and his three friends are obviously drunk and angry. Further down the road he is following me, tailgating and driving in the other lane swerving into mine. His friends are hanging out the window yelling at me. My girlfriend is terrified. I slowly accelerate trying to leave him behind and he continues to follow. I put my foot on the floor (on a lonely highway that I drive often. Speed limit 65mph.) and because I have a sports car designed to be SAFE at high speeds I am able to leave him far behind. I held speeds well above 100mph until I got to the next exit a few miles down the road.
If cars are designed to handle higher speeds, and people are trained to handle their vehicles at those speeds, the roads would be safer today. My Supra is safer at 120mph on the highway than an Excursion is at 60mph.
Outlawing dumbshit drivers, and crapily designed vehicles would do a lot more to save lives than this BB monitoring crap.
You do not moderate something down because you disagree with it, you moderate it down because it is flamebait, or a troll or such. Otherwise I would moderate YOU down.
RC3 runs just fine on VMWare 1.1
Odd. I just got 210 KB/s. That sucker came down FAST.
Artists and poets are usually not replaced on a whim because of a "cheaper" alternative (young college puke) comes around.
$20k for an MR2?!?! You can get a used Supra w/ medium/high miles for that. I did.
While I do not agree with this moron that you replied to, I must comment that Slashdot is written in Perl. I find it quite useful.
Thats what my job is like!
But heres a news link from U. of Mass.
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http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/press/99/0810sh
"ps - the machine still has 29meg of ram FREE - not buffered or shared - free as in totally unused with 128 connections. (160 meg of ram total.) Love to see the windows2000test.com box do that. "
LOL! This is great. Actually, I'd love to see the W2Ktest machine do ANYTHING right now. It's been down most of the day.
Looks like they finally got the router loops fixed though, but the machine is still not up. I wonder who's head is gonna roll in Redmond for this one? I'm sure the marketing genius who came up with this one didn't clear it with ole Billy-Boy...
Yeah, like anyone will be able to tell the difference between a normal and a retarded bird...
Without going into details that I should not go into, we do not develop new hardware, but we do develop solutions using existing products/technologies. Products know to work with NT, just put into the mix with other existing products. So the fact that NT crashes under heavy load when Linux does not shows the stability of the OSs using existing technologies.
SP4 and we are revising our test plans to include SP5. I have not started reliability testing with SP5 yet.
I really could care less if you believe me or not. I have produced and re-produced these results over and over for the last 8 months. If it were NT that was actually more stable, I would be praising NT. But that is not the case.
Nope. I'm part of a development group and we do not make any of our findings public.
Too bad though. There is some really useful (IMO) information that we come up with, and I have been wanting to use the resources available to me to assist in Linux development. I am still exploring this.
In these lab environments you really get to know what makes a particular setup fsck up...
I work at a major computer manufacturer and my job is testing the stability of our enterprise storage solutions under different configurations. RH 6.0 Linux, NT 4 & 2000, NW 4.2 & 5, Solaris, etc.
I have done testing which shows that NT is less stable under heavy load (Heavy I/O for extended period, Linux has seen load averages well above 100 for extended periods without problems, NT quite often BSODs when the tests last at these levels last for extended periods) than Linux, even when using some 'beta' Linux drivers for our controllers.
This is not FUD, it is the truth.
It is ignorance, like what you are spreading, that is keeping Microsoft's pockets lined.
I agree completely.
NT is a 9-second Mustang that has something major break every couple of runs.
Linux is a Toyota Supra Turbo (my example) that can make it down the track in 11s, but also corner, stop, and go hundreds of runs without problems.
Part of NT's speed is from specialized hooks into the kernel for IIS, and SMB. They traded stability for performance.
Linux' design concentrates on stability, rather than speed. No specialized proprietary hooks into the kernel that add complexity. Not quite as fast on the track, but you don't have it blow up every couple passes.
For the price difference between NT and Linux, you can always spread the load over an additional machine to get the performance and keep the stability.
There is no question for good administrators what is more important. I choose stability and well-roundedness over the 9-sec. mustang any day...
Wait a minute. the specific issue has not yet been determined, but a patch is in development? Now we have vaporware patches!!!
Count me in.
/. meets, I won't have any spare time!
Sheesh, between car meets and now
Hello, fellow Dell employee. I went to go get lunch at the Whataburger today (11a.m.), and it took me 50min round trip, and I went through the drive through!!!
(for those of you that don't know, the whataburger is only about 1 mile from Dell)
You can thank Mr. Dell for making Austin too PC-centric.
HA! I made the opposite move. I lived in El Paso and moved to Austin, after a short stay in Amarillo. The only thing I liked better about El Paso is it was 110 and DRY, instead of Austin's 105 and 95% humidity...
Yeah. The newest-gen DLT tapes on Ultra-LVD busses can hit near 400 MB/min. And this in on WINNT. I'd love to see what these baby's would do on a nice linux box. Unfortunately, that is not in our test plans. :(