And this is a good example of why I stopped gaming on PCs. I just don't think it's worth it. Too often games don't work and need patching or new drivers and a change somewhere in the system can really mess things up. Games on consoles are just a cheap, the hardware has a longer shelf life (you have to upgrade gaming PCs every couple of years) and you know if you buy a game it will work because all the consoles have the same hardware. Even if the hardware breaks most consoles are so common you can find another on e-bay even 10 years later.
I've not been at all impressed with RHEL. At work we use RHEL3. After an upgrade from RH7.3 we found that the C++ IOStream library was unable to open files >2GB in size. This is an issue with the C++ compiler version supplied with RHEL3. Red Hats' "solution" was that it would be fixed in RHEL4. Sorry, but in a product where support is the primary reason for paying, this is a very poor response.
Remember, more recently the police also shot a man in his own home in the early hours of the morning (in Forest Gate in East London). He was later released without charge. Would you like it if the police broke into your house in the early hours, shot you and then arrested you?
Greyhound is a bus, yes? Certainly in the UK we've had terrorists destroy buses (7/7). And trains. And shopping centres. And pubs. And offices. It is not planes they like blowing up. It is people. Terroist attacks are nothing new in the UK. Until recently we had the sense to not let it disrupt us and live our lives as if it hadn't happened, so as not to let the terrorists win. It seems now the policy has changed and we're allowing them to win. I wonder how long before we have to have airport security checks to go on a bus, or go shopping (since buses and shops have also been targets).
I had the UK national radio station Classic FM hijack my domain and use it to send a Valentines day spam message (this was last year). Again, the only way I found out was when all the spam came bouncing back to me.
I wrote to the MD of the station, and did get a personal reply, apologising and claiming their web developer had made a "mistake". I asked for compensation and didn't get it though.
I also got plenty of out of office auto replies, plenty with name, addresses and telephone numbers. The biggest number of bouncing emails came from Hotmail, Yahoo and Lycos.
The thing I found most upsetting was the possibility of having my email blocked by companies or people that got this spam or having my net connection closed because of spam reports.
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And this is a good example of why I stopped gaming on PCs. I just don't think it's worth it. Too often games don't work and need patching or new drivers and a change somewhere in the system can really mess things up. Games on consoles are just a cheap, the hardware has a longer shelf life (you have to upgrade gaming PCs every couple of years) and you know if you buy a game it will work because all the consoles have the same hardware. Even if the hardware breaks most consoles are so common you can find another on e-bay even 10 years later.
I've not been at all impressed with RHEL. At work we use RHEL3. After an upgrade from RH7.3 we found that the C++ IOStream library was unable to open files >2GB in size. This is an issue with the C++ compiler version supplied with RHEL3. Red Hats' "solution" was that it would be fixed in RHEL4. Sorry, but in a product where support is the primary reason for paying, this is a very poor response.
Remember, more recently the police also shot a man in his own home in the early hours of the morning (in Forest Gate in East London). He was later released without charge. Would you like it if the police broke into your house in the early hours, shot you and then arrested you?
I had the UK national radio station Classic FM hijack my domain and use it to send a Valentines day spam message (this was last year). Again, the only way I found out was when all the spam came bouncing back to me. I wrote to the MD of the station, and did get a personal reply, apologising and claiming their web developer had made a "mistake". I asked for compensation and didn't get it though. I also got plenty of out of office auto replies, plenty with name, addresses and telephone numbers. The biggest number of bouncing emails came from Hotmail, Yahoo and Lycos. The thing I found most upsetting was the possibility of having my email blocked by companies or people that got this spam or having my net connection closed because of spam reports.
They still have A1200s on sale! They must be at least 10 years old now. So who wants an A1200 with a massive 170MB hard disk (yes, MB not GB)?