"Can you please redirect me to a file that takes a long time to load (after the program is started)"
Take a look at a high school senior's Publisher & PowerPoint files some time. They are HUGE, especially with lots of pictures (as instructed). It's not unusual to see file sizes 100-250mb on an ordinary PP or Pub file. And boy do they take a long time to open across a network on P4 computers with lots of ram. We just had a graduation PowerPoint file that was in the neighborhood of 700mb and it took a couple of minutes to open from the network (using a 100BaseT connection).
I've told the teachers to make sure the kids optimize their photos, etc. but it falls on deaf ears...
as they did in Independance Day, morse code was the only means of communication working and that's what saved the planet.
*big cheesy grin because no one else made the connection)
The prices are extremely low partially because their tech support was sent overseas like everyone else is trying. I know they brought a bunch of their business support back here but between that and the crappy hardware, we (K-12 school district) won't ever buy anything from them again. In the last five years I've only talked to a few people who actually like what they're getting from Dell. They may be #1 right now but they are skating on thin ice.
"Is Novell deserving of the support that the Open Source Software (OSS) community can provide to increase the odds of success regarding its Linux push? If so, what can the average Linux user do to help (besides switching to Novell Linux Desktop (NLD) or becoming a shill?)"
I installed the NLD recently on a laptop and it is very nice. I wouldn't hesitate to use it on my desktop if I didn't have to use several Windows only programs.
We have it on almost 600 stations in a K-12 school system. No problems with what you're talking about. It was rolled out using the config they provide and our login script. Simple and easy to manage.
But you're stating something as fact when it's not. Most tube amps have more than one or two preamp tubes. Even the small ones. And they are definitely not as you described, enhormonics and distortion. There is an input tube that is usually divided into two stages, normally half before and half after the tone controls. Then there's another tube called a driver between there and the power tubes. typical tube distortion does not come from just the preamp tubes, the gain from the preamp tubes overdrives the power tubes and that's where you get that smooth tube distortion.
As far as your amp goes, it's one of the rare exceptions. the 4 12AX7s and the 12 6L6s combine to make almost 500 watts. This is a very uncommon combination but I bet it sounds sweet.
I think the original point was that this person has what most of us would consider a gold mine, but I'd guess most of those tubes will be useless to a guitar/bass player. However, there are lots of people that restore antique radios and such and they'd probably be very interested in that.
One or two? That's a pretty general statement not based on fact. You haven't looked in an amp in a while have you? I know a little about this as I repair tube amps on occasion and I'm an active musician.
Most quality tube amps have more than two preamp tubes. Even my hybrid Ampeg bass amp has three. My Fender Bassman has three, my Bandmaster has four, my lead guitar player's Marshall and Soldano each have four, our singer's Peavey XXX has four. Some of the higher end guitar amps like the Fender Twin have seven preamp tubes and an additional reverb driver tube. A typical setup is one to three preamp tubes per channel such as the 12AX7/7025 plus a driver tube like the 12AT7 or 12AU7. On a normal two channel amp this is 4-6 tubes just on the preamp side.
Also, 12 power tubes are not typical in any amp including your bass amp which (respectfully speaking) does not have 12 power tubes. The MesaBoogie bass amps use Power MOSFET transistors on the output side. Even the Big Block 750 uses 20 MOSFETs driven by four preamp tubes. My Ampeg SVTIII and your Mesa Boogie bass amp uses MOSFET transistors on the output stage. Mines got 8, yours either has 8 or 12 MOSFETs (depending on the model) NOT tubes on the output stage. High wattage bass amps use either tube or transistor preamps and power transistors to get the high power output. Low frequency amps like bass amps require much more wattage to get the volume than guitar amps do.
In 30 years of playing I've never seen a normal tube amp with more than 8 power tubes and I've been around a lot of equipment. Power tubes in class B amps come in pairs and generally give you 40-50 watts per pair. A quad gives you 100 or so, a sextuplet (6 for those of you that have your minds in the gutter) gives 120-150 watts depending on how they're pushed. A 20w class A guitar head can make your eardrums bleed with the sheer volume of high frequencies. Ok, maybe not bleed but you get the idea.
As nice as tubes sound you can't get that kind of wattage (3-400 and higher) out of tubes in a guitar amp. The thing would be as heavy as a car with the number and size of power and output transformers needed. Concert levels are achieved by micing your amp into an extremely high wattage PA setup. Tens of thousands of watts, all solid state.
This started many years ago in our country (USA) when the nightly news programs started running stories in 6 minutes or less. Their view was that people don't need more than headlines or minor details and it eventually landed us where we are now - with an attention span of only a few minutes and... where was I?
I remember the days of Netware 2.15 (1990ish) when you spent most of your time installing flipping disks while the program compiled itself on the fly. It was and is still the best overall network platform and it keeps getting better. I have not had a bad experience with any version I've used and in almost 15 years (knock on wood) no one has penetrated my networks in any way, shape or form.
As far as being arrogant, yes, Novell has been arrogant in the past. So has every other company that has a great product. That's what eventually makes them realize they screwed up at some point (Novell owning Word Perfect) when something suddently takes a chunk of their market share because they had blinders on. This will happen to Microsoft at some point, it's inevitable. I just hope it's soon. Their products are not superior to anyone's, they just have a better marketing strategy.
I have WP12 right now and it is very nice. not quite as smooth as MS Office 2000+, but still very nice. Our secretaries still prefer some of the functions of WP that MS doesn't have or doesn't do easily. Bill Gates is a marketing genius. I just wish some of the other companies had the same brass set that he does because the computing world would be completely different if that were the case.
Operating systems should be separate from everything else and opsys writers should be legally compelled to release their relevant API/whatever to the public. No application should be tied directly to the opsys simply for the good of the consumer. That would level the playing field in a hurry.
I've got both. A Toshiba PPC and a Palm Tungsten C. I HATE the Toshiba because it's difficult to make things work the way I want. I LOVE the Palm because it's EASY! I don't want a PC in a PDA, I want a note taker with wireless access to the Internet and that's what I have with my Palm. I can easily do web browsing and email, take notes and things and sync it to my desktop simply.
The bottom line for me is ease of use. Just because a PPC is Windows doesn't mean it's easy to use.
It also depends on where the rural area is. In Michigan, our rural lifestyle is poluted by the larger city lifestyle because we're so close to them. It's still loads better than living in the cities but it's nothing like living in rural Iowa/Nebraska or the southern states would be.
I do admit though that in our experience the people in the southern small towns are a lot more friendly than here in the north. Once we get north of Kentucky attitudes start coming back big-time. I prefer the politeness of the southern folk. Maybe it would be different if I lived there, I don't know...
" Apple really doesn't do stuff like that. An old iMac still sells for several hundred dollars...
You're thinking of Sony. They obsolete the previous line of products every two weeks, and piss the hell out of their customers. Apple doesn't do things like that."
That would be accurate unless you're a school system that has had to purchase all new Macs or Windows boxes because the software we are required to use is not available in a format that will run on OS9. Since a lot of schools in our country were courted heavily by Apple 15 years ago and convinced that Apple was the "only" way, there are a LOT of very angry school administrators right now. I just came from a conference where a school district has switched entirely to K12LTSP and has one Win 2003 server to run student management and a few other apps because their needed software was only available now in either Win or OS/X platforms. Since their older Macs won't run OS/X and they didn't have the money to purchase all new computers they did what they could afford. They have had to sacrifice a little in future flexibility but they saved over $150k *and* became more productive. They showed off their system now and it is really impressive considering it's running Linux w/ OpenOffice on Pentium 1/133 machines and they run this setup faster than our 1.x ghz/XP/MSOffice setups. For those of you that haven't seen terminal servers in action, the speed will really impress you.
Regardless, the decisions Apple makes about their hardware/software not being backward compatible really do have an effect on their customers. At least Microsoft allows for a lot of backward/forward compatibility so we don't have to purchase new hardware and/or software every time there's a change in one or the other.
Personally, I like the idea of *nix being available for both platforms so it really doesn't matter which hardware vendor you want to use if you want to switch to the *nix platform such as the aforementioned school did. If I had to make a choice based soley on price, I'd switch to cheap Intel/AMD boxes and run an LTSP solution. We've got way too many newer PCs running Win98 or higher to be affected by something like this right now but it could change down the road with education budgets being slashed and non-funded federal and state mandates running wildly amok like they are.
1) Zero nowadays. Past downloads are pretty much all gone now. Most were things I either couldn't find in print anymore, I have the vinyl, or because I was too lazy to rip them from my CDs.
2) Almost Zero. Most new music sucks. Why should I buy music that sucks? Most is not original or creative. Most are done by performers, not artists. Anything old that I like I already have. Anything new I hear that I like I buy, but that's going to change if the RIAA doesn't stop screwing the public and the musicians. Truth be told, I rarely buy new music these days.
3) ??? I'm not sure what this is but I do download a lot of free-from-the-artist-or-indie sites.
4) 80%
5) Some, not much. Most of what I get from them is stuff we're learning to play in our praise band, then once I have it learned I don't need it anymore.
" 0_o I've never seen those videos before. They are truly disturbing."
Disturbing is a good word. If you watch him speak with the sound turned down it is sort of like watching Hitler address the crowds. I'm just glad they're not out to take over the world. Oh wait...
The only reason Apple has such a small market share is that their markting department was made up of fools in the past. Had they cut their selling prices to something reasonable back in the 90's they would have a much larger piece of the pie. People were buying PC "clones" because they were so much cheaper than the big name computers. This helped elevate Microsoft to the level they are now. The Mac clones they allowed for a few years didn't help because the price was still too high. Focusing on education and graphics was also somewhat foolish because the machines were more than capable of running business type software. I believe they missed the boat in business because with a few more dollars spent in the right areas they could have really stifled the growth of Microsoft. Now it's too late.
While your views are your right and I don't agree with them and think you are wrong morally and scientifically and disrespectful to boot, what bothers me more is your lack of respect for the apostrophe. Every place you used one you shouldn't have and a couple of places you should have used one you didn't. Not to mention your spelling needs some work. Anyway...
If you can't protect yourself against getting pregnant and you really don't want kids, don't have sex. It's that simple.
The main crux of the conversation seems to be how Microsoft is coercing the US government and the hardware industry to force everything to run on Microsoft patented software and hardware. Whoopie. If that's how weak we are as a country then we deserve it. When it comes right down to it, I think we've become way too complacent and dependant on others to entertain us. And that my friends, is what's going to bite us in the proverbial ass. This dependance and complacency is what has turned the industry into the greedy, anti-rights establishment that it is. And Microsoft is right there with them. When you can't use a music CD in any computer other than a Microsoft computer or a Microsoft licensed device that's when I stop buying CDs. It's no big deal, they don't get my money and I just listen to old music or write and play my own. Or maybe I go listen to another live band (remember those?) to hear music played if I don't want to play it. If all of this comes true I won't get to watch movies at home anymore because I won't buy the hardware. So what? I never watched movies at home before VCRs either. The TV will not be going away and neither will the radio or theaters. Although it might be a good idea if the TV did go away...
I might be stepping out of line here just a tad, but aren't we really taking this way to seriously? Sure, the ripple down effects of the DMCA and the rest may complicate my ability to watch movies or listen to music at home. Sure, the government is intruding on my rights more and more every day. Our government officals are the real problem, not Microsoft. If it weren't for their lack of backbone and the lack of pressure from us as consumers this wouldn't be happening. However as someone who is very disturbed by what Microsoft and the RIAA and MPAA want to do, I believe their influence on the industry and our government is hurting every man, woman and child in this country and there's really nothing I alone can do about it. Although I do write to my DEMOCRATIC Senators and they do nothing but pay lip service. They don't care how these things affect us. They don't want to know what we think because they are all too concerned about paying back the groups that got them elected. But I digress...
The truth is that there's more to life than computers and technology when it comes to entertainment (this statement will bring out the flamers) and maybe it's time some people got a real life and got rid of their virtual lives. The day will come when I never turn on a computer again by choice, so it really doesn't bother me. When's the last time you launched a model rocket, or played guitar with your son, or took a bike ride with your daughter, or rode your motorcycle to the ice cream shop with your wife, or noticed how your dog's fur glistens in the sunlight or counted the stars... ???
Tell John Kerry to sign the military release form 180 (as Pres. Bush has done) so we can all see what's in the 31 documents that the FOIA can't touch until he does. What's he hiding???
When did this become a common problem? When I used to program way back in the late 80's software code was simple and clean. We didn't really have issues like this to worry about. The occasional virus, but those were actually.com or.exe programs. I know the Internet wasn't in place for the public yet, but still. And I know about the Unix worm. But isn't the main reason this is happening because coding gotten either that sloppy or that disorganized?
As much as I hate Microsoft, I don't blame them for things like this although they have not set a good example. There are thousands of programmers to blame for sloppy code, bloat and security issues so we can spread it around a bit.
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Take a look at a high school senior's Publisher & PowerPoint files some time. They are HUGE, especially with lots of pictures (as instructed). It's not unusual to see file sizes 100-250mb on an ordinary PP or Pub file. And boy do they take a long time to open across a network on P4 computers with lots of ram. We just had a graduation PowerPoint file that was in the neighborhood of 700mb and it took a couple of minutes to open from the network (using a 100BaseT connection).
I've told the teachers to make sure the kids optimize their photos, etc. but it falls on deaf ears...
as they did in Independance Day, morse code was the only means of communication working and that's what saved the planet. *big cheesy grin because no one else made the connection)
The prices are extremely low partially because their tech support was sent overseas like everyone else is trying. I know they brought a bunch of their business support back here but between that and the crappy hardware, we (K-12 school district) won't ever buy anything from them again. In the last five years I've only talked to a few people who actually like what they're getting from Dell. They may be #1 right now but they are skating on thin ice.
This from people who waste vowels... ;)
I installed the NLD recently on a laptop and it is very nice. I wouldn't hesitate to use it on my desktop if I didn't have to use several Windows only programs.
As far as your amp goes, it's one of the rare exceptions. the 4 12AX7s and the 12 6L6s combine to make almost 500 watts. This is a very uncommon combination but I bet it sounds sweet.
I think the original point was that this person has what most of us would consider a gold mine, but I'd guess most of those tubes will be useless to a guitar/bass player. However, there are lots of people that restore antique radios and such and they'd probably be very interested in that.
Most quality tube amps have more than two preamp tubes. Even my hybrid Ampeg bass amp has three. My Fender Bassman has three, my Bandmaster has four, my lead guitar player's Marshall and Soldano each have four, our singer's Peavey XXX has four. Some of the higher end guitar amps like the Fender Twin have seven preamp tubes and an additional reverb driver tube. A typical setup is one to three preamp tubes per channel such as the 12AX7/7025 plus a driver tube like the 12AT7 or 12AU7. On a normal two channel amp this is 4-6 tubes just on the preamp side.
Also, 12 power tubes are not typical in any amp including your bass amp which (respectfully speaking) does not have 12 power tubes. The MesaBoogie bass amps use Power MOSFET transistors on the output side. Even the Big Block 750 uses 20 MOSFETs driven by four preamp tubes. My Ampeg SVTIII and your Mesa Boogie bass amp uses MOSFET transistors on the output stage. Mines got 8, yours either has 8 or 12 MOSFETs (depending on the model) NOT tubes on the output stage. High wattage bass amps use either tube or transistor preamps and power transistors to get the high power output. Low frequency amps like bass amps require much more wattage to get the volume than guitar amps do.
In 30 years of playing I've never seen a normal tube amp with more than 8 power tubes and I've been around a lot of equipment. Power tubes in class B amps come in pairs and generally give you 40-50 watts per pair. A quad gives you 100 or so, a sextuplet (6 for those of you that have your minds in the gutter) gives 120-150 watts depending on how they're pushed. A 20w class A guitar head can make your eardrums bleed with the sheer volume of high frequencies. Ok, maybe not bleed but you get the idea.
As nice as tubes sound you can't get that kind of wattage (3-400 and higher) out of tubes in a guitar amp. The thing would be as heavy as a car with the number and size of power and output transformers needed. Concert levels are achieved by micing your amp into an extremely high wattage PA setup. Tens of thousands of watts, all solid state.
I hope this clears this up.
I wrote the company twice but never heard back from them so I put my best foot forward, through the case and moved on.
Don't forget urban english, farmer english, southern english, chat room english, outsourced tech support english...
As far as being arrogant, yes, Novell has been arrogant in the past. So has every other company that has a great product. That's what eventually makes them realize they screwed up at some point (Novell owning Word Perfect) when something suddently takes a chunk of their market share because they had blinders on. This will happen to Microsoft at some point, it's inevitable. I just hope it's soon. Their products are not superior to anyone's, they just have a better marketing strategy.
I have WP12 right now and it is very nice. not quite as smooth as MS Office 2000+, but still very nice. Our secretaries still prefer some of the functions of WP that MS doesn't have or doesn't do easily. Bill Gates is a marketing genius. I just wish some of the other companies had the same brass set that he does because the computing world would be completely different if that were the case.
Operating systems should be separate from everything else and opsys writers should be legally compelled to release their relevant API/whatever to the public. No application should be tied directly to the opsys simply for the good of the consumer. That would level the playing field in a hurry.
The bottom line for me is ease of use. Just because a PPC is Windows doesn't mean it's easy to use.
I do admit though that in our experience the people in the southern small towns are a lot more friendly than here in the north. Once we get north of Kentucky attitudes start coming back big-time. I prefer the politeness of the southern folk. Maybe it would be different if I lived there, I don't know...
I should have known better than to try to visit a site referenced in a /. story the day it comes out...
"When will Firefox render slashdot properly?"
You're thinking of Sony. They obsolete the previous line of products every two weeks, and piss the hell out of their customers. Apple doesn't do things like that."
That would be accurate unless you're a school system that has had to purchase all new Macs or Windows boxes because the software we are required to use is not available in a format that will run on OS9. Since a lot of schools in our country were courted heavily by Apple 15 years ago and convinced that Apple was the "only" way, there are a LOT of very angry school administrators right now. I just came from a conference where a school district has switched entirely to K12LTSP and has one Win 2003 server to run student management and a few other apps because their needed software was only available now in either Win or OS/X platforms. Since their older Macs won't run OS/X and they didn't have the money to purchase all new computers they did what they could afford. They have had to sacrifice a little in future flexibility but they saved over $150k *and* became more productive. They showed off their system now and it is really impressive considering it's running Linux w/ OpenOffice on Pentium 1/133 machines and they run this setup faster than our 1.x ghz/XP/MSOffice setups. For those of you that haven't seen terminal servers in action, the speed will really impress you.
Regardless, the decisions Apple makes about their hardware/software not being backward compatible really do have an effect on their customers. At least Microsoft allows for a lot of backward/forward compatibility so we don't have to purchase new hardware and/or software every time there's a change in one or the other.
Personally, I like the idea of *nix being available for both platforms so it really doesn't matter which hardware vendor you want to use if you want to switch to the *nix platform such as the aforementioned school did. If I had to make a choice based soley on price, I'd switch to cheap Intel/AMD boxes and run an LTSP solution. We've got way too many newer PCs running Win98 or higher to be affected by something like this right now but it could change down the road with education budgets being slashed and non-funded federal and state mandates running wildly amok like they are.
2) Almost Zero. Most new music sucks. Why should I buy music that sucks? Most is not original or creative. Most are done by performers, not artists. Anything old that I like I already have. Anything new I hear that I like I buy, but that's going to change if the RIAA doesn't stop screwing the public and the musicians. Truth be told, I rarely buy new music these days.
3) ??? I'm not sure what this is but I do download a lot of free-from-the-artist-or-indie sites.
4) 80%
5) Some, not much. Most of what I get from them is stuff we're learning to play in our praise band, then once I have it learned I don't need it anymore.
Disturbing is a good word. If you watch him speak with the sound turned down it is sort of like watching Hitler address the crowds. I'm just glad they're not out to take over the world. Oh wait...
"There are aerial photos available RIGHT NOW on http://www.acme.com/mapper/"
If you can't protect yourself against getting pregnant and you really don't want kids, don't have sex. It's that simple.
I might be stepping out of line here just a tad, but aren't we really taking this way to seriously? Sure, the ripple down effects of the DMCA and the rest may complicate my ability to watch movies or listen to music at home. Sure, the government is intruding on my rights more and more every day. Our government officals are the real problem, not Microsoft. If it weren't for their lack of backbone and the lack of pressure from us as consumers this wouldn't be happening. However as someone who is very disturbed by what Microsoft and the RIAA and MPAA want to do, I believe their influence on the industry and our government is hurting every man, woman and child in this country and there's really nothing I alone can do about it. Although I do write to my DEMOCRATIC Senators and they do nothing but pay lip service. They don't care how these things affect us. They don't want to know what we think because they are all too concerned about paying back the groups that got them elected. But I digress...
The truth is that there's more to life than computers and technology when it comes to entertainment (this statement will bring out the flamers) and maybe it's time some people got a real life and got rid of their virtual lives. The day will come when I never turn on a computer again by choice, so it really doesn't bother me. When's the last time you launched a model rocket, or played guitar with your son, or took a bike ride with your daughter, or rode your motorcycle to the ice cream shop with your wife, or noticed how your dog's fur glistens in the sunlight or counted the stars... ???
Tell John Kerry to sign the military release form 180 (as Pres. Bush has done) so we can all see what's in the 31 documents that the FOIA can't touch until he does. What's he hiding???
When did this become a common problem? When I used to program way back in the late 80's software code was simple and clean. We didn't really have issues like this to worry about. The occasional virus, but those were actually .com or .exe programs. I know the Internet wasn't in place for the public yet, but still. And I know about the Unix worm. But isn't the main reason this is happening because coding gotten either that sloppy or that disorganized?
As much as I hate Microsoft, I don't blame them for things like this although they have not set a good example. There are thousands of programmers to blame for sloppy code, bloat and security issues so we can spread it around a bit.