Disk space in the IDE Arena is now well under $10 a gigabyte
Hell yeah... it's even under $10 Canadian!!! You can buy a 30 gig 5400 rpm drive in town for like $190 Cdn, or a 7200rpm for $240. That's approaching $5/gig.... Not so long ago, $5 a meg would have probably been decent... In fact, 10 years ago, $3USD/meg would have been pretty decent. (Im looking at a chart in an old PC magazine)...
Check out this quote... "With an access time of 14 milliseconds, the FilePro 250 CP30254 offers great performance. And for under $2 per megabyte, this 251MB drive is a great value in anybody's book." Hahaha, it's amazing how far "we have" come in such a short time. Almost makes me want to break out the old iron core memory, hehe.
As for SCSI, I have always had trouble rationalizing the obscene prices that they charge for them. I don't really see how they could be so much more expensive than an IDE drive to produce, although I'd love to be proven wrong. If SCSI drives were even 50% more costly than comparable IDE drives, I'd probably have bitten the bullet and bought more SCSI drives, but oh well... That's Seagates loss, I suppose.
Quick: Name any hacked site that uses any version of *nix or *BSD or Solaris or Mac or Windows 9x or NT4. Easy right? TONS to pick from.
Quick2: Name any hacked site that uses Windows 2000....
still thinking?
Nope, don't include simple defacements through FP9x vulnerabilities that lame admins didn't apply known patches to...
still thinking?
Windows 2000 is how old? and those other OS's are how old?
Including a proviso on your second question totally corrupts any point you might have been trying to make, which was based on false assumptions in the first place. In summary, don't be lame.
I don't really see the connection between being a jock and being able to perform under intense pressure. I have played many sports growing up and I have never seen this "intense pressure" you speak of in sports as greatly as in, say, an IB exam in high school, or performing at a piano recital, or countless other non athletic pursuits. This is not to say that there are not moments of intense pressure in athletics, however you can't simply say that the only way to experience pressure is to be involved in athletics, which is what your third line seems to be asserting.
While I agree with your points on people being naturally dismissive of things they cannot do and also that lessons learned athletics have helped you in other pursuits, your odd numbered lines (assuming the subject line is line 0) are somewhat trollish.
You go boy! Quite possibly the most intelligent post in this whole thread. I wish I hadn't burned all my mod points, as this post is currenty way underrated.
hehe, I agree... this is the first slashback I've ever read! and I've been reading/. for along time, although I don't necessarily remember when slashback's started appearing.
I believe it works in that sort of way on the OpenBSD system... type you make an install package from source which then gets installed to the system as a binary package. (that's the way it looked as the text scrolled by, but I could be wrong, heh)
Interesting post... I think you may have just intrigued me enough to give Python a try! I've sort of been mildly curious about it for years now, but I've never had the time to look into it... now I guess I'll have to make the time.
Explorer has crashed on me several times, and depending on hardware configurations, Win2k Professional has frozen up on me as well with no additional software installed.
Just because you have not had any problems does not mean that other people that are having problems are doing something wrong, believe me. I have gotten into this argument many times, and I have taken your position in the past, but as I have learned, it is just plain wrong.
Wow +2 Insightful?I wouldn't normally reply to something like this, but s/he's tricked at least a few people already...
Interesting points, with no proof of any of them...
I've never heard of anybody named "Erin Delsteppino"
I find it hard to believe that a company like QUE would turn his books down, only to have them picked up by Addison-Weseley.
I've never seen a file called RSTEV.NLM, although I guess it could possibly exist... I also have not heard that he worked for novell, although I am definately not an expert on his personal life.
And as a sidebar, adding quotation marks to heresey doesn't really add any truth to the statement.
If any processor needs the kind of power that only this new type of motherboard can accomidate, and then needs to radiate it away with a one pound(!) heatsink, the processor has problems, not the case/motherboard/power supply technology.
Who are you to say that the processor has problems simply because it has a large heat sink? Do people question putting in side impact beams in cars? "There must be something wrong with the car if it needs side impact beams, the doors must be flimsy". Do people question the fact that in order to drive your old Pinto with it's brand new Ferarri engine installed, you will probably have to upgrade the tires to drive at full speed?
You and me may not agree with Intel's design philosophy, but that doesn't mean that they are manufacturing a faulty processor... it just means that their design goals do not include cheaper, more efficient, cooler, lower power consumption for their main stream processors. They want to make the fastest x86 chip possible and because of many reasons, the solutions they come up with to create newer and "better" chips are not exactly going to be elegant.
Disable booting from floppy and password protect your bios will solve the floppy disk problem. But as for the physical access problem... I can't really think of anything that wuold solve that...
One possibility for the future is to have a record of some sort of serial number in the system BIOS that verifies the boot device against some sort of serial number or checksum or whatever, which would limit the ability to boot to a different hard drive.
Well, good points and I agree with you, just not in this context. AOL is a hell of a lot more than your average internet service provider. This has nothing to do with AOL being an ISP and everything to do with AOL/Time-Warner being the parent company of Nullsoft, which, to my clearest recollection, created Gnutella (or at the very least, owns it now). The fact that AOL/Time-Warner is a huge mega-conglomerate super-corporation with more money than God, err, I mean BillG, is just icing on the cake, and the biggest bullseye on the dartboard. And the fact that AOL potentially has a lot to lose at this, it is probably a good idea... just get AOL's lawyers brains crunching on the problem that has been plaguing the "mp3 industry" of late and maybe everybodies problems will be solved!
Oh man, that is scary. I wonder if Calle is still around at ArtX. I would want that guy as far away as possible from my companies public image. Although that quote you supplied sounds just like his same ol' shit. What a tard.
Hey, don't diss the pope. Considering his position, and all of the historical momentum of his position, I think he did a pretty good job. You must keep in mind that not all Catholics in the world are as sensible as you or I.
With a file disk quota of 5 megs standard on most machines
Oh really? Well, I don't know what a file disk quota is, but if you are talking about disk quota's, then there is no standard disk quota size. I have never heard of a standard quota size before.
Most software installed on a system will probably want to be in a common place on the system, such as/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin, etc., but it is not necessarily a requirement that root privelages be required to do this install.
Most software does NOT require being "run" as root, which is what I think the previous poster was saying. If a program run's "suid root", then it has the ability to crash the system, corrupt memory, and destroy your hardware forever! Most programs do not require this
haha, oh man. Give me a break. Those are all YOUR hangups, not mine. Where I come from, people actually manage to "peacefully coexist" regardless of racial background...and these social classes you seem to have an issue with, well I don't automatically distrust any "teenager" I see. In fact, as hard as it may be to believe, we all were teenagers at one time as well.
I don't think you really know what a suspicious person looks like. Perhaps you feel out of place in society, hence your anger towards me, but that's not my problem. It's possible that you find that people don't give you the respect you deserve in life, but it sure as hell wouldn't have been me, and that's not what I was talking about at all in my previous post.
And on another note, I don't thing I live in your country. I don't know which country is yours; I didn't know there was a country owned by an anonymous slashdot user. But if I may extrapolate from the tone of your post that the country you speak of is the United States of America, then yes, I don't live in your country and don't plan on it either, except to possibly pimp some of your nice american money.
What's wrong with BASIC? I spent years programming in BASIC in elementary/middle school. Up in Canada, all we had were Apple 2's in the schools anyways, and my old man had an apple2 at home as well. You can do a lot of cool stuff with BASIC with very little knowledge of underlying computer hardware and it is reletively simple to understand the procedural programming methods required (at least, last time I used BASIC, then again, it was almost 11 years ago!). C would have been the absolute WRONG choice back in those days.
I have no regrets about my BASIC heritage, he he:)
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with an e-mail address like that, it's no wonder :P
how could it serve out pages as fast as hell if the load average is 130? Unless you had 130 processors in the machine or something.
Disk space in the IDE Arena is now well under $10 a gigabyte
Hell yeah... it's even under $10 Canadian!!! You can buy a 30 gig 5400 rpm drive in town for like $190 Cdn, or a 7200rpm for $240. That's approaching $5/gig.... Not so long ago, $5 a meg would have probably been decent... In fact, 10 years ago, $3USD/meg would have been pretty decent. (Im looking at a chart in an old PC magazine)...
Check out this quote... "With an access time of 14 milliseconds, the FilePro 250 CP30254 offers great performance. And for under $2 per megabyte, this 251MB drive is a great value in anybody's book." Hahaha, it's amazing how far "we have" come in such a short time. Almost makes me want to break out the old iron core memory, hehe.
As for SCSI, I have always had trouble rationalizing the obscene prices that they charge for them. I don't really see how they could be so much more expensive than an IDE drive to produce, although I'd love to be proven wrong. If SCSI drives were even 50% more costly than comparable IDE drives, I'd probably have bitten the bullet and bought more SCSI drives, but oh well... That's Seagates loss, I suppose.
Quick: Name any hacked site that uses any version of *nix or *BSD or Solaris or Mac or Windows 9x or NT4. Easy right? TONS to pick from.
Quick2: Name any hacked site that uses Windows 2000....
still thinking?
Nope, don't include simple defacements through FP9x vulnerabilities that lame admins didn't apply known patches to...
still thinking?
Windows 2000 is how old? and those other OS's are how old? Including a proviso on your second question totally corrupts any point you might have been trying to make, which was based on false assumptions in the first place. In summary, don't be lame.
I don't really see the connection between being a jock and being able to perform under intense pressure. I have played many sports growing up and I have never seen this "intense pressure" you speak of in sports as greatly as in, say, an IB exam in high school, or performing at a piano recital, or countless other non athletic pursuits. This is not to say that there are not moments of intense pressure in athletics, however you can't simply say that the only way to experience pressure is to be involved in athletics, which is what your third line seems to be asserting.
While I agree with your points on people being naturally dismissive of things they cannot do and also that lessons learned athletics have helped you in other pursuits, your odd numbered lines (assuming the subject line is line 0) are somewhat trollish.
You go boy! Quite possibly the most intelligent post in this whole thread. I wish I hadn't burned all my mod points, as this post is currenty way underrated.
BeamIt is nothing like a radio station. You can only listen to songs that you own on CD.
This is similar to giving a copy of a cd you own to a friend so he can play it when you ride in his car.
hehe, I agree... this is the first slashback I've ever read! and I've been reading /. for along time, although I don't necessarily remember when slashback's started appearing.
I believe it works in that sort of way on the OpenBSD system... type you make an install package from source which then gets installed to the system as a binary package. (that's the way it looked as the text scrolled by, but I could be wrong, heh)
Interesting post... I think you may have just intrigued me enough to give Python a try! I've sort of been mildly curious about it for years now, but I've never had the time to look into it... now I guess I'll have to make the time.
Cheers,
-Ryan
Explorer has crashed on me several times, and depending on hardware configurations, Win2k Professional has frozen up on me as well with no additional software installed.
Just because you have not had any problems does not mean that other people that are having problems are doing something wrong, believe me. I have gotten into this argument many times, and I have taken your position in the past, but as I have learned, it is just plain wrong.
Wow +2 Insightful?I wouldn't normally reply to something like this, but s/he's tricked at least a few people already...
Interesting points, with no proof of any of them...
I've never heard of anybody named "Erin Delsteppino"
I find it hard to believe that a company like QUE would turn his books down, only to have them picked up by Addison-Weseley.
I've never seen a file called RSTEV.NLM, although I guess it could possibly exist... I also have not heard that he worked for novell, although I am definately not an expert on his personal life.
And as a sidebar, adding quotation marks to heresey doesn't really add any truth to the statement.
If any processor needs the kind of power that only this new type of motherboard can accomidate, and then needs to radiate it away with a one pound(!) heatsink, the processor has problems, not the case/motherboard/power supply technology.
Who are you to say that the processor has problems simply because it has a large heat sink? Do people question putting in side impact beams in cars? "There must be something wrong with the car if it needs side impact beams, the doors must be flimsy". Do people question the fact that in order to drive your old Pinto with it's brand new Ferarri engine installed, you will probably have to upgrade the tires to drive at full speed?
You and me may not agree with Intel's design philosophy, but that doesn't mean that they are manufacturing a faulty processor... it just means that their design goals do not include cheaper, more efficient, cooler, lower power consumption for their main stream processors. They want to make the fastest x86 chip possible and because of many reasons, the solutions they come up with to create newer and "better" chips are not exactly going to be elegant.
nice work pal... now you have cause me to break the law... I link to slashdot from my personal home page, and now, slashdot links to this...
I think it might be a joke though. I hope somebody comes in here and pinches me, I can't stand living in this dream any longer.
Disable booting from floppy and password protect your bios will solve the floppy disk problem. But as for the physical access problem... I can't really think of anything that wuold solve that...
One possibility for the future is to have a record of some sort of serial number in the system BIOS that verifies the boot device against some sort of serial number or checksum or whatever, which would limit the ability to boot to a different hard drive.
jut b...
...ffl up...
Damn, it's also physically impossible too! Must be due to some strange quantum effects or something. Now my right mouse button doesn't work any more!
And CDE is basically Gnome + KDE rewritten in Java and LISP for the 68030 architecture.
Well, good points and I agree with you, just not in this context. AOL is a hell of a lot more than your average internet service provider. This has nothing to do with AOL being an ISP and everything to do with AOL/Time-Warner being the parent company of Nullsoft, which, to my clearest recollection, created Gnutella (or at the very least, owns it now). The fact that AOL/Time-Warner is a huge mega-conglomerate super-corporation with more money than God, err, I mean BillG, is just icing on the cake, and the biggest bullseye on the dartboard. And the fact that AOL potentially has a lot to lose at this, it is probably a good idea... just get AOL's lawyers brains crunching on the problem that has been plaguing the "mp3 industry" of late and maybe everybodies problems will be solved!
Oh man, that is scary. I wonder if Calle is still around at ArtX. I would want that guy as far away as possible from my companies public image. Although that quote you supplied sounds just like his same ol' shit. What a tard.
Hey, don't diss the pope. Considering his position, and all of the historical momentum of his position, I think he did a pretty good job. You must keep in mind that not all Catholics in the world are as sensible as you or I.
With a file disk quota of 5 megs standard on most machines
/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin, etc., but it is not necessarily a requirement that root privelages be required to do this install.
Most software does NOT require being "run" as root, which is what I think the previous poster was saying. If a program run's "suid root", then it has the ability to crash the system, corrupt memory, and destroy your hardware forever! Most programs do not require this
Oh really? Well, I don't know what a file disk quota is, but if you are talking about disk quota's, then there is no standard disk quota size. I have never heard of a standard quota size before.
Most software installed on a system will probably want to be in a common place on the system, such as
Many people complain about the stability of DSL connections. I have no concerns:
I may be missing someting, but what does system uptimte have to do with DSL stability?
haha, oh man. Give me a break. Those are all YOUR hangups, not mine. Where I come from, people actually manage to "peacefully coexist" regardless of racial background...and these social classes you seem to have an issue with, well I don't automatically distrust any "teenager" I see. In fact, as hard as it may be to believe, we all were teenagers at one time as well.
I don't think you really know what a suspicious person looks like. Perhaps you feel out of place in society, hence your anger towards me, but that's not my problem. It's possible that you find that people don't give you the respect you deserve in life, but it sure as hell wouldn't have been me, and that's not what I was talking about at all in my previous post.
And on another note, I don't thing I live in your country. I don't know which country is yours; I didn't know there was a country owned by an anonymous slashdot user. But if I may extrapolate from the tone of your post that the country you speak of is the United States of America, then yes, I don't live in your country and don't plan on it either, except to possibly pimp some of your nice american money.
"We don't like the term 'beaver'. We feel that it's pejorative. We prefer to be called 'vagina squirrels'".
May 17, 2000 Dr. Fun comic.
What's wrong with BASIC? I spent years programming in BASIC in elementary/middle school. Up in Canada, all we had were Apple 2's in the schools anyways, and my old man had an apple2 at home as well. You can do a lot of cool stuff with BASIC with very little knowledge of underlying computer hardware and it is reletively simple to understand the procedural programming methods required (at least, last time I used BASIC, then again, it was almost 11 years ago!). C would have been the absolute WRONG choice back in those days. I have no regrets about my BASIC heritage, he he :)