As elitist as that sounds, its pretty accurate. Its not for casual linux users. If you want to know about it, there are plenty of other resources online. But you really shouldn't expect Ubuntu/fedora level ease of installation/configuration/upgrading, which has its pluses and minuses. Basically, the way I've always explained it to others is that slackware is for slackers. People who want to understand what and how they are doing before they actually do it. The kind of people that almost perversely enjoy getting errors, because it presents them with a problem to figure out.
Yeah. That has happened to me with Windows Media Player. Itunes just aggravates me in small ways that aren't worth mentioning. Its not bad, but not the revolutionary piece of software that it was hyped as by my Apple loving friends prior to the windows version.
There are already several cryptographic accelerators available to slip into servers as add on cards.
Plus, Via also makes an x86 compatible processor with similar security features. ( although you'd have to be brain dead to try and run one in a performance critical server).
Would creating a new group of competition for IS people be the most fair? There may be different types of IS, but at some point you can't blame genetics for not being able to compete at a high level. I can't compete at any sport, due to my extreme genetic suckiness at all sports. Small size, lack of athletic ability, ect, ect.
The lunar base isn't going to happen. There isn't a market. The space tourism for the ultrarich is in its infancy. I doubt there are enough to keep the lunar base in business.
Ok, lets say you did invent this particular invention in your garage. How do you implement it in a way that will benefit a large group of people for free?
Where the heck does the money for the factory or materials come from?
Don't get me wrong, I have a part time volunteer job. If you know of a better system for moving ideas from concept to communal good, I'm all ears.
Not redundant power. Power over Ethernet! Why should you be able to distinguish between the power cord and the data carrying cables?
Or possibly remote microwave power. So intense that interrupting the beam will destroy anything in the way. No need for machine guns, significant savings on ammo, reduced cremation costs. Win win all around.
From a database standpoint, I'd want an absolute unique identifier for the role of the computer, separate form the hardware. So when its replaced, the record changes the id related to the hardware. So purchasing, troubleshooting would link to the hardware id, and not the role id. Software licenses and AD would link against the role id. Replace the hard ware, no problem no info lost or confused.
Taco gets a lot of flack for that, but honestly I did agree with him. And I still do. The first Ipod sucked. Mac only, expensive as heck, not much storage space. But, it didn't stay sucky. It improved over the years, gradually adding features to make it appeal to more consumers. I'd say the release of the ipod with a usb interface for pc's was the ground breaking announcement. If you still thought they wouldn't make an impact then you should be made fun of.
I mean, did anyone really think windows was going to be a hit after microsoft released windows 1.0?
So what happens when a workstation dies a unrecoverable death? Do you replace the computer with one the same name For licensing and AD purposes, or a new name so it has a new record tied to its purchase, virus scanning history, and support?
I understand everything you are saying. But, you don't speak meta Billish. I was trying to explain it to you, because its more interesting than the art of apologizing. I don't know why I try sometimes.
I don't think you understand that I'm not blaming anyone but myself. I am explaining that I write posts for myself. I *don't* think about what other people might think of the posts as I write them. My " not being clear" should translate to " Not thinking of anyone else but myself", rather than " Its your fault". Its not defensiveness, but an admission of selfishness. My posts are often written in my own internal language. Its not anyone's fault they don't understand.
You assumed that I was blaming others and treating it as if I was trying to duck responsibility for being unclear. My previous response was trying to ( in a humorous over the top way which you obviously didn't get because it was written in my own internal language) say that I wasn't trying to duck blame in a bushian manor. You obviously don't speak Bill. I hope this is closer to the language you humans know as "english".
Ok. How about " I suck". Is that strong enough? I usually don't consider slashdot postings to be the equivalent of grand jury testimony so I don't always run my postings by a series of editors, lawyers, and grand inquisitors. THere may be a mispelling or two. I may miss a company refrence, and put in one that doesn't apply, because it make sense to me. I don't always consider my audience. I routinely fail to quote my sources. I have been know to forget things, or remeber things that never happened. All in all, I would make a bad president of a taco stand, much less a country. Should I kill myself now, or do I have to apply for a permit for that?
No, it wouldn't. It would be much better to include the local figures. Apple typically doesn't just set its prices according to exchange rates, it sets them what it thinks would be best from a marketing and business perspective. With it being in the non local currencies we as readers are left pondering if that's what the price would be in pounds after a conversion from the actual price they will charge in local currencies, if they will take that figure and convert it to local currencies, or if that's the numeric value of the price with the wrong symbol attached. The correct thing to do is to provide both figures to allow both an easy comparison, while also an understanding into the actual price.
Absolutely true, but sorta irrelevant to the "what's keeping users on windows" topic. Have you ever heard anyone say they can't switch to linux because of a casual game? I haven't. When I have showed people linux, they've always been impressed with the greater variety of simple games most distros come with. In any case, the simpler the game, the easier it would be to clone/port into linux.
Yeah, but, no one really wants to run a bleeding edge game on an arm netbook. It wouldn't work for anyone, even if it was compiled for arm. They do not have to worry about games on netbooks.
Most applications need very little to be transitioned from windows desktop to a windows mobile environment on a non x86 cpu. Or at least that was the case six years ago.
Why should the west "Catch up" to the East in terms of gaming? "Per-capita gaming"? If people don't want to sit in front of a screen for hours on end in their free time, what's wrong with that? The summary almost reads like a government report on illiteracy.
I say their is no better or worse per capita gaming percentage. Do whatever the heck you want with your free time.
The problem is the amount of stuff we were serving. The server was pegged during peak hours. Ran at 70% most of the rest of the time. It did a lot of on the fly graphics creation, number crunching and database access with every request. It wasn't exactly google's load but it wasn't just a web server with static content either. Would have been fine with even a lower end xeon and a bit more memory. The price difference was all of $200.
In most cases yes, but not always. In any case this chip is meant for desktops. Anyone using a desktop chip for a server has other issues as well.
Actually brings back bad memories of an old company buying the absolute cheapest server possible to save money. A dell with a Celeron(pentium III based) and 256 megs of ram! Yes, it was a freaking celeron in a server. And boy did it suck. My two year old desktop with a Pentium 4 ran rings around it. It was so, so sad. I can only imagine the laughter when they migrated to a new data center with that.
Its my understanding that with cool & quiet, the cpu scales down its Mhz and power consumption when not busy. Last Tom's hardware article I saw comparing power usage showed that the AMD's used significantly less power when idle, despite their higher wattage ratting. So if you're leaving it always on, you shouldn't notice much of an energy difference, unless its crunching away @ 100% all day.
I do believe Nokia is moving towards maemo and away from symbian, however, the idea of microsoft putting together a program for linux to read MS based docs, is sorta hard to believe. A part of me thinks that one day MS will give up the ghost and embrace Linux as a platform for its still proprietary closed source products. A different part of me thinks the other part of me is crazy.
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I *always* think of Ren & Stimpy.
As elitist as that sounds, its pretty accurate. Its not for casual linux users. If you want to know about it, there are plenty of other resources online. But you really shouldn't expect Ubuntu/fedora level ease of installation/configuration/upgrading, which has its pluses and minuses. Basically, the way I've always explained it to others is that slackware is for slackers. People who want to understand what and how they are doing before they actually do it. The kind of people that almost perversely enjoy getting errors, because it presents them with a problem to figure out.
Yeah. That has happened to me with Windows Media Player. Itunes just aggravates me in small ways that aren't worth mentioning. Its not bad, but not the revolutionary piece of software that it was hyped as by my Apple loving friends prior to the windows version.
There are already several cryptographic accelerators available to slip into servers as add on cards. Plus, Via also makes an x86 compatible processor with similar security features. ( although you'd have to be brain dead to try and run one in a performance critical server).
Would creating a new group of competition for IS people be the most fair? There may be different types of IS, but at some point you can't blame genetics for not being able to compete at a high level. I can't compete at any sport, due to my extreme genetic suckiness at all sports. Small size, lack of athletic ability, ect, ect.
Earth? I mean at least until the casinos open up on the moon.
The lunar base isn't going to happen. There isn't a market. The space tourism for the ultrarich is in its infancy. I doubt there are enough to keep the lunar base in business.
Ok, lets say you did invent this particular invention in your garage.
How do you implement it in a way that will benefit a large group of people for free?
Where the heck does the money for the factory or materials come from?
Don't get me wrong, I have a part time volunteer job. If you know of a better system for moving ideas from concept to communal good, I'm all ears.
Not redundant power. Power over Ethernet! Why should you be able to distinguish between the power cord and the data carrying cables?
Or possibly remote microwave power. So intense that interrupting the beam will destroy anything in the way. No need for machine guns, significant savings on ammo, reduced cremation costs. Win win all around.
From a database standpoint, I'd want an absolute unique identifier for the role of the computer, separate form the hardware. So when its replaced, the record changes the id related to the hardware. So purchasing, troubleshooting would link to the hardware id, and not the role id. Software licenses and AD would link against the role id. Replace the hard ware, no problem no info lost or confused.
Taco gets a lot of flack for that, but honestly I did agree with him. And I still do. The first Ipod sucked. Mac only, expensive as heck, not much storage space. But, it didn't stay sucky. It improved over the years, gradually adding features to make it appeal to more consumers. I'd say the release of the ipod with a usb interface for pc's was the ground breaking announcement. If you still thought they wouldn't make an impact then you should be made fun of.
I mean, did anyone really think windows was going to be a hit after microsoft released windows 1.0?
So what happens when a workstation dies a unrecoverable death? Do you replace the computer with one the same name For licensing and AD purposes, or a new name so it has a new record tied to its purchase, virus scanning history, and support?
I understand everything you are saying. But, you don't speak meta Billish. I was trying to explain it to you, because its more interesting than the art of apologizing. I don't know why I try sometimes.
I don't think you understand that I'm not blaming anyone but myself. I am explaining that I write posts for myself. I *don't* think about what other people might think of the posts as I write them. My " not being clear" should translate to " Not thinking of anyone else but myself", rather than " Its your fault". Its not defensiveness, but an admission of selfishness. My posts are often written in my own internal language. Its not anyone's fault they don't understand.
You assumed that I was blaming others and treating it as if I was trying to duck responsibility for being unclear. My previous response was trying to ( in a humorous over the top way which you obviously didn't get because it was written in my own internal language) say that I wasn't trying to duck blame in a bushian manor. You obviously don't speak Bill. I hope this is closer to the language you humans know as "english".
Ok. How about " I suck". Is that strong enough? I usually don't consider slashdot postings to be the equivalent of grand jury testimony so I don't always run my postings by a series of editors, lawyers, and grand inquisitors. THere may be a mispelling or two. I may miss a company refrence, and put in one that doesn't apply, because it make sense to me. I don't always consider my audience. I routinely fail to quote my sources. I have been know to forget things, or remeber things that never happened. All in all, I would make a bad president of a taco stand, much less a country. Should I kill myself now, or do I have to apply for a permit for that?
Good point, it s tom tom not apple setting the pricing. I was aware of that, but I didn't make it clear enough in the post.
No, it wouldn't. It would be much better to include the local figures. Apple typically doesn't just set its prices according to exchange rates, it sets them what it thinks would be best from a marketing and business perspective. With it being in the non local currencies we as readers are left pondering if that's what the price would be in pounds after a conversion from the actual price they will charge in local currencies, if they will take that figure and convert it to local currencies, or if that's the numeric value of the price with the wrong symbol attached. The correct thing to do is to provide both figures to allow both an easy comparison, while also an understanding into the actual price.
Absolutely true, but sorta irrelevant to the "what's keeping users on windows" topic. Have you ever heard anyone say they can't switch to linux because of a casual game? I haven't. When I have showed people linux, they've always been impressed with the greater variety of simple games most distros come with. In any case, the simpler the game, the easier it would be to clone/port into linux.
Yeah, but, no one really wants to run a bleeding edge game on an arm netbook. It wouldn't work for anyone, even if it was compiled for arm. They do not have to worry about games on netbooks. Most applications need very little to be transitioned from windows desktop to a windows mobile environment on a non x86 cpu. Or at least that was the case six years ago.
Why should the west "Catch up" to the East in terms of gaming? "Per-capita gaming"? If people don't want to sit in front of a screen for hours on end in their free time, what's wrong with that? The summary almost reads like a government report on illiteracy.
I say their is no better or worse per capita gaming percentage. Do whatever the heck you want with your free time.
No on both counts. Linux allows it and its not limited to SELinux enabled kernels.
The problem is the amount of stuff we were serving. The server was pegged during peak hours. Ran at 70% most of the rest of the time. It did a lot of on the fly graphics creation, number crunching and database access with every request. It wasn't exactly google's load but it wasn't just a web server with static content either. Would have been fine with even a lower end xeon and a bit more memory. The price difference was all of $200.
In most cases yes, but not always. In any case this chip is meant for desktops. Anyone using a desktop chip for a server has other issues as well.
Actually brings back bad memories of an old company buying the absolute cheapest server possible to save money. A dell with a Celeron(pentium III based) and 256 megs of ram! Yes, it was a freaking celeron in a server. And boy did it suck. My two year old desktop with a Pentium 4 ran rings around it. It was so, so sad. I can only imagine the laughter when they migrated to a new data center with that.
Its my understanding that with cool & quiet, the cpu scales down its Mhz and power consumption when not busy. Last Tom's hardware article I saw comparing power usage showed that the AMD's used significantly less power when idle, despite their higher wattage ratting. So if you're leaving it always on, you shouldn't notice much of an energy difference, unless its crunching away @ 100% all day.
I do believe Nokia is moving towards maemo and away from symbian, however, the idea of microsoft putting together a program for linux to read MS based docs, is sorta hard to believe. A part of me thinks that one day MS will give up the ghost and embrace Linux as a platform for its still proprietary closed source products. A different part of me thinks the other part of me is crazy.