The number one reason why most people don't turn off their computers is pure laziness. Some people I know even set their CRT monitor to never power off because it takes too long to wake back up when they want to use the computer (I'm serious!). Unless the computer is actually doing something 24/7 (like a web server or something), just turn it off when you aren't going to use it.
I found that Knoppix actually seems to run pretty well on Thinkpads. While I have never gone that route, you could download the newest Knoppix and try it out as a bootable CD. If it works well, do a harddrive install, get apt going, and basically have a Debian-like system.
Call me strange, but I just made a streaming radio server out of Damn Small Linux. It was pretty easy actually - take an old crummy Dell Celeron 700Mhz, pull out all the good bits, stick a 128MB Dimm and a 1GB harddrive back in, partition the HDD and install DSL, download and configure Shoutcast for Linux, set up SSH server & seti@home, and be done! Works well, only took a couple of hours, and I learned a lot from doing it in such a "barebones" distro.
The best part of DSL is it's using less than half the RAM and none of the swap space. If I had a 64MB DIMM laying around, I would reclaim the 128MB in the machine, but I don't:/
Blocking cookies from third party sites and excluding wicked advertisers from the hosts file are both wise. There is hope that, as the internet evolves, some of the really nasty advertising techniques will wane.
I agree that blocking third party sites and wicked advertisers is wise. However, my fear as the internet evolves, their techniques will just get nastier and nastier (we can already see this with the rise of spyware, and spyware becoming more and more virus-like).
let's see how fast the brand grows when it takes on all the legacy cruftiness that is Intel's product-line of CPUs.
Actually, it will probably have a nice boost at that time. The big question is, how well is Apple going to be able to push their existing PPC line in the meantime, when everyone knows they are already obsolete.
I've found that most people know Apple as either the company that makes the iPod, or the company that made really shitty computers back in the 1990's. Though it is true that most non-geeks don't know who Steve Jobs is.
I just want a nice factory sound system that I don't have to replace. The big advantage to leaving the factory system intact is that no matter how nice, the theives will just ignore it.
Granted, movies like Troy and The Day After Tomorrow are ONLY worth seeing in the theater - the only thing these movies have going for them are sweeping, large-scale visuals that don't translate to the smaller screen.
Naw, movies like those aren't worth seeing at all. It's 2005, not 1977. Almost every movie out there has big, sweeping visuals. So might as well make it a good one.
And then, I know plenty of people who are perfectly content watching movies on their $300 27" TV from 1991. If a movie is good, it will pull me into it, and the set up becomes mostly irrelevant. It's the bad movies that benefit the most from a $8000 home theatre room.
People say it here all the time: Apple is a hardware company. Trying an experiment--that a lot of people had been whining about/clamoring for/criticizing over--and pulling the plug it when it cut into their own primary line of revenue doesn't sound a bit like stifling the competition to me. It sounds like marketplace survival.
You know, stifling the competition and marketplace survival are not mutually exclusive. The fact is, the competition was killing Apple, so they eliminated the competition. Plain and simple.
This Michael Dell? ("...the best thing that could be done with Apple would be to shut it down, liquidate its assets, and return the money to its shareholders")
Heck, that would of been pretty good advice back in 1997 when Michael Dell said that. At the time, things were looking pretty grim for Apple, and I certainly didn't expect them to be around much longer.
MS has Office, Apple has iTunes. The second MS kills Office for Mac, Apple kills iTunes for Windows...
Talk about an empty threat. Killing MS Office for the Mac would just about kill any plans to use OSX on corporate computers, and eliminate one of the big advantages of OSX over Linux. Meanwhile, kill off iTunes for Windows, and 95% of Windows users wouldn't care. Heck, if Apple killed off Quicktime for Windows, it would be a blessing.
easier management, fewer virus problems. easy integration with windows AD. looks like a viable enterprise solution to me.
And every patch and new release of Office for Windows could easily break Office under WINE - intentionally or not. No company in their right mind would rely on running a Windows application under WINE as an enterprise solution - especially if the application in question is made by Microsoft.
Mercedes used to mean "this car will still be running perfectly long after you're dead of old age."
Mercedes used to make some diesel cars that would run forever and then some. But the rest of their cars were never anything special in the reliability department.
I think it's funny that people used to scream about how ridiculous it was that Apple didn't license their OS years before, and now years after they finally tried it, someone reflects on it stifling the competition.
People are complaining about how Apple used OS licensing to basically kill off the clones. That sounds a lot like stifling the competition to me.
Speaking of the "Apple makes their money on hardware" thing... I'm curious about whether that is true any more. I have not heard recent data (even in the plural of anecdotes) that says that hardware is still where Apple makes its money.
Or you could go to store.apple.com and look at some of the prices. Then go to other places and compare them. While it's true that you don't know how much the G4 & G5 processors cost, or Apple's custom motherboards - the prices Apple charges for upgrades to their systems are often absurd.
Well, the typical computer user is going to want Bonzi Buddy or Weatherbug for their Mac just like they do for Windows. And when the installer asks them for their Admin password, the typical computer user is just going to hand it over. Even if they don't hand it over (say, they don't know it, like in a corporate setting), the installer can still infect their user space. Or try a local exploit to get root access (which they have been few for the Mac).
OSX is certainly more secure against worms and drive-by spyware installs. But social engineering is still going to work. I might even say OSX users might be a little more at risk, as their platform has not really been targetted yet - luring them into a false sense of security.
If you're going to run Linux on it, why not just buy x86 hardware? The X-serves also lack features that some people might find important like dual power supplies.
So there's going to be a period after 2010 during which the US won't have a heavy launch capability. Probably a long period.
My guess is, come 2010 NASA is going to extend the life of the shuttle for atleast a few years. After those few years are up, they will push to extend it again. I expect this to go atleast 10-15 years, or until another shuttle crashes.
First up, scroll wheels are a Bad Thing to start off with as they encourage unnatural movements of the middle finger while holding the rest of the fingers static.
I don't know about you, but I always use my index finger to scroll the scroll wheel on my mouse. Never really gave it any thought, it just seems natural to me. The only thing the middle finger is used for is right clicks.
The sad thing is that you probably don't know whether your PC is infected or not (and it most probably is). It's dumasses like you that make life so difficult for sysadmins who have to battle the attacks from zombie PCs.
And how do you know that your computer is not infected?
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What on earth do you need 6 servers and 4 desktops running 24/7 for in your house?
The number one reason why most people don't turn off their computers is pure laziness. Some people I know even set their CRT monitor to never power off because it takes too long to wake back up when they want to use the computer (I'm serious!). Unless the computer is actually doing something 24/7 (like a web server or something), just turn it off when you aren't going to use it.
I found that Knoppix actually seems to run pretty well on Thinkpads. While I have never gone that route, you could download the newest Knoppix and try it out as a bootable CD. If it works well, do a harddrive install, get apt going, and basically have a Debian-like system.
Call me strange, but I just made a streaming radio server out of Damn Small Linux. It was pretty easy actually - take an old crummy Dell Celeron 700Mhz, pull out all the good bits, stick a 128MB Dimm and a 1GB harddrive back in, partition the HDD and install DSL, download and configure Shoutcast for Linux, set up SSH server & seti@home, and be done! Works well, only took a couple of hours, and I learned a lot from doing it in such a "barebones" distro.
:/
The best part of DSL is it's using less than half the RAM and none of the swap space. If I had a 64MB DIMM laying around, I would reclaim the 128MB in the machine, but I don't
Blocking cookies from third party sites and excluding wicked advertisers from the hosts file are both wise. There is hope that, as the internet evolves, some of the really nasty advertising techniques will wane.
I agree that blocking third party sites and wicked advertisers is wise. However, my fear as the internet evolves, their techniques will just get nastier and nastier (we can already see this with the rise of spyware, and spyware becoming more and more virus-like).
let's see how fast the brand grows when it takes on all the legacy cruftiness that is Intel's product-line of CPUs.
Actually, it will probably have a nice boost at that time. The big question is, how well is Apple going to be able to push their existing PPC line in the meantime, when everyone knows they are already obsolete.
but none know what or who Apple or Steve Jobs is.
I've found that most people know Apple as either the company that makes the iPod, or the company that made really shitty computers back in the 1990's. Though it is true that most non-geeks don't know who Steve Jobs is.
I just want a nice factory sound system that I don't have to replace. The big advantage to leaving the factory system intact is that no matter how nice, the theives will just ignore it.
Granted, movies like Troy and The Day After Tomorrow are ONLY worth seeing in the theater - the only thing these movies have going for them are sweeping, large-scale visuals that don't translate to the smaller screen.
Naw, movies like those aren't worth seeing at all. It's 2005, not 1977. Almost every movie out there has big, sweeping visuals. So might as well make it a good one.
And then, I know plenty of people who are perfectly content watching movies on their $300 27" TV from 1991. If a movie is good, it will pull me into it, and the set up becomes mostly irrelevant. It's the bad movies that benefit the most from a $8000 home theatre room.
People say it here all the time: Apple is a hardware company. Trying an experiment--that a lot of people had been whining about/clamoring for/criticizing over--and pulling the plug it when it cut into their own primary line of revenue doesn't sound a bit like stifling the competition to me. It sounds like marketplace survival.
You know, stifling the competition and marketplace survival are not mutually exclusive. The fact is, the competition was killing Apple, so they eliminated the competition. Plain and simple.
This Michael Dell? ("...the best thing that could be done with Apple would be to shut it down, liquidate its assets, and return the money to its shareholders")
Heck, that would of been pretty good advice back in 1997 when Michael Dell said that. At the time, things were looking pretty grim for Apple, and I certainly didn't expect them to be around much longer.
MS has Office, Apple has iTunes. The second MS kills Office for Mac, Apple kills iTunes for Windows...
Talk about an empty threat. Killing MS Office for the Mac would just about kill any plans to use OSX on corporate computers, and eliminate one of the big advantages of OSX over Linux. Meanwhile, kill off iTunes for Windows, and 95% of Windows users wouldn't care. Heck, if Apple killed off Quicktime for Windows, it would be a blessing.
easier management, fewer virus problems. easy integration with windows AD. looks like a viable enterprise solution to me.
And every patch and new release of Office for Windows could easily break Office under WINE - intentionally or not. No company in their right mind would rely on running a Windows application under WINE as an enterprise solution - especially if the application in question is made by Microsoft.
Mercedes used to mean "this car will still be running perfectly long after you're dead of old age."
Mercedes used to make some diesel cars that would run forever and then some. But the rest of their cars were never anything special in the reliability department.
I think it's funny that people used to scream about how ridiculous it was that Apple didn't license their OS years before, and now years after they finally tried it, someone reflects on it stifling the competition.
People are complaining about how Apple used OS licensing to basically kill off the clones. That sounds a lot like stifling the competition to me.
Speaking of the "Apple makes their money on hardware" thing... I'm curious about whether that is true any more. I have not heard recent data (even in the plural of anecdotes) that says that hardware is still where Apple makes its money.
Or you could go to store.apple.com and look at some of the prices. Then go to other places and compare them. While it's true that you don't know how much the G4 & G5 processors cost, or Apple's custom motherboards - the prices Apple charges for upgrades to their systems are often absurd.
I can believe that with the Dell $1000+ systems, but the $299 system? I doubt it.
Well, the typical computer user is going to want Bonzi Buddy or Weatherbug for their Mac just like they do for Windows. And when the installer asks them for their Admin password, the typical computer user is just going to hand it over. Even if they don't hand it over (say, they don't know it, like in a corporate setting), the installer can still infect their user space. Or try a local exploit to get root access (which they have been few for the Mac).
OSX is certainly more secure against worms and drive-by spyware installs. But social engineering is still going to work. I might even say OSX users might be a little more at risk, as their platform has not really been targetted yet - luring them into a false sense of security.
If you're going to run Linux on it, why not just buy x86 hardware? The X-serves also lack features that some people might find important like dual power supplies.
OMG! When did Disney do goatse?
When they thought they could make a buck or two by doing it.
Is hello.jpg in the public domain?
So there's going to be a period after 2010 during which the US won't have a heavy launch capability. Probably a long period.
My guess is, come 2010 NASA is going to extend the life of the shuttle for atleast a few years. After those few years are up, they will push to extend it again. I expect this to go atleast 10-15 years, or until another shuttle crashes.
If you were to, you'd find a lot of DivX 4 (even some 3) and Xvid.
According to a friend, that is.
If you find something like that, you're pretty lucky. I've seen some pretty strange stuff out there.
First up, scroll wheels are a Bad Thing to start off with as they encourage unnatural movements of the middle finger while holding the rest of the fingers static.
I don't know about you, but I always use my index finger to scroll the scroll wheel on my mouse. Never really gave it any thought, it just seems natural to me. The only thing the middle finger is used for is right clicks.
The sad thing is that you probably don't know whether your PC is infected or not (and it most probably is). It's dumasses like you that make life so difficult for sysadmins who have to battle the attacks from zombie PCs.
And how do you know that your computer is not infected?