Many of us work in offices that require IE - not just because IT might want it, but because internal support pages, including web email, ONLY work well with IE. I know at my company this is the case - I, a vetran Firefox user, has no alternative, because the internal sites that I need (raise a tech support issue, order equipment, online training, etc.) simply don't work well under Firefox. And using Firefox behind their firewall gives render issues on several sites tha I like...and web mail from home doesn't work either. So I am stuck with IE at work and even sometimes at home - I might as well dress it up, give it some mints, put some lipstick on it, and kiss it...
FS
what a dog:
1) no TV out according to the specs
2) Intel P4
3) Only one 3.5" drive bay
4) Intel Extreme graphics
My living room system, an Antec Aria case, Athlon64 3000+, and ATi AIW 9800Pro graphic card has more computing power, better PVR capabilities, and looks way, WAY better. And the Athlon/Aria combo is so quiet (thanks to a Zalman 7000 hsf) that I never have to turn it off - forget "instant on". And, oh yeah, I have 3 x 3.5" bays to add enough hard drives to actually STORE some MP3s, pics, and videos, unlike this poseur of a system...and who wants a touch panel - I want the RF remote of the ATi AIW so I don't even leave my couch...
Having used IBM ThinkPad extensively, and RTFA, I'd say that Linux users can look forward to getting at least part of the benefit of the new ThinkPad's multilayered security right out of the box. If we say that the new T42 has three layers:
1) Fingerprint "PowerOn" Login
2) Fingerprint OS Login
3) Harddrive and removable data encryption
It's pretty easy to see how 1) above will work seamlessly with Linux (or any OS) as it occurs before OS boot, but I highly doubt 2) and 3) will work as is. That's not to say such features can't be added, but right out of the box it looks dim.
Still, even having PowerOn fingerprint verification will stop a large number of thieves, and traditional Linux login and filesystem security can be used as layers 2) and 3). So at the very least, a T42 with the new fingerprint ID has one extra layer on top of standard Linux security. And should you not want it, you can always disable it by disabling the "PowerOn" password in the boot menu...
Thanks to the original reviewer - you just saved me, as I was getting ready to buy a T42 in the next two weeks...now I will just have to wait!
Most/. readers should be really happy about per processor licensing by Oracle. By segmenting the market into business and home users, Oracle is able to offer Personal Oracle as a free download, charge businesses depending upon how much they use Oracle (on a per processor basis, but other schemes could work, MIPS-based, datavolume-based, etc.), and still make enough money to plow into development of new sourcecode. Yeah, they make money too - companies sometimes need to do that. But overall, the use of tiered pricing has enabled Oracle to really keep prices down (free being one example) at the low end of the market.
In the end analysis, isn't it right a corporation using Oracle to make millions of dollars a day running a call center should pay more for it than a small business using it to maintain a few thousand human resource records? And shouldn't both of them pay more for it than a hacker just wanting to learn it at home? And isn't the number of processors running those databases a very good analog to determine each of those intended uses? Given that, the desire to end per processor pricing just leaves me baffled, unless the original poster believes that GPL alternatives can ONLY succeed with the extinction of per-profit databases like Oracle...I like to think the marketplace will drive the acceptance of MySQL and the others simply on their own merits.
The planes that hit the WTC were 767s...other planes used on 9/11 may have been 757s, as I believe the one that hit the Pentagon was. I can't recall the one that crashed in Pennsylvania, probably a 757 judging by it's route (not a traditional route for 767s, which usually fly internationally or coast-to-coast only).
If you are SERIOUS about your data modeling, ERWin is probably the best way to go. Many professional DBAs probably couldn't do their jobs without it. I would also consider Rational Rose to be on a par with ERWin, but it's ownership by IBM has rendered it "partisian" in some DBAs minds, as is Oracle's product. Erwin has the advantage of not being owned by any company that sells a database, generates code for all of them equally, and is mostly transparent across all of them, especially when transitioning between logical and physical designs. This especially makes it a favorite of consulting companies that have to move from client to client...ERWin also has an excellent tutorial on HOW to do data modeling, which can at least serve as an entry point for someone new to it's practice
On a side note, ERWin is NOT as object model-centric as Rose and some others, as it is old enough to have been developed before object modeling became cool. But that is a minor quibble.
I also find a good set of 3x5 filecards (taped up to a whiteboard or large construction paper) an excellent starting point for my models, particularly when trying to model those main logical entities that end up driving the entire design. They have the advantage over whiteboards of being at least partially on paper should someone erase the board...
The MSI Mega PC is a barebones kit that has an inbuilt CD/media player that powers on/off seperately from the PC, complete with it's own home stereo style LCD display. All you need do is add your processor, RAM, etc. and have it working...
Actually, the PVFS is an academic version of some stuff that is available commercially. Most of the cluster and grid processing vendors offer something similar, see Platform Computing, Globus.org (also academic), and especially Avaki's DataGrid . And Ab Initio and Torrent Systems offered parallel files and processing (not quite file systems) in commercial products as early as 1996.
Also, the PVFS offers a parallel file system, but still does not address the issue of retrieval by relevance or set operators that relational databases offer. As dataset sizes and complexity grows, this obviously can become more important than any raw performance metric...
Near-Term: this thing should be just as stable as every other MS product prior to version 3.0 of it. (In short, damned lousy). To make it worse, it probably also enables DRM at a file system level...
Mid-Term: FS finally works, and allows easier retrivial by relevance, author, source, etc. in ways that we can just dream of now. It's the kind of thing we didn't realize we needed until we had it...until it inevitably blows up as all MS products must do eventually. But when it works, we will be fairly happy to have it...especially end users, most of whom can't figure out a hierchical file system in the first place.
Far-Term: FS is finally able to use it's relational roots to distribute filesystems over multiple processors in an cluster or over a network. Such a system would support atomic, distributed file updates by threads of processes on differing processors (including HyperThreaded procs). Imagine a virtual filesystem that can span your whole-house network, with a single file system image...in WINDOWS.
So I guess my view is: painful in the near-term, but may be cool to have when they get it right.
Simple - get 802.11a wireless gear which doesn't work on the 2.4Ghz spectrum, but at 5+Ghz. Also get a 5Ghz. cordless phone. Encourage your neighbors to also use 802.11a...
Future Shock
I get this statistic from my brother, who happens to be gay and is a practicing M.D. who has done research on the topic. He claims he hates it and wishes he was straight (he was for a while and was very unhappy). He says he wouldn't wish it on anyone as a life...but that's just the way he is. He didn't come out until his late thirties...as always, YMMV, but it's hard to beat his perspective on the issue...
There IS considerable statistical evidence that "gays are born that way." The proportion of world populations tends to average between 10-15% gay, despite wide differences in cultures, morals, religions, and lifestyles. That is a very strong link to there being a genetic prediliction, rather than a cultural one.
So this thing exists as a mobile media center, ready for us to pop up the jpgs of our kids on the the screen rather than pull a wallet photo out. I admit it makes sense, and I do it all the time on my Pocket PC, but not on a 4096 color screen!
What was Sony thinking? This reminds of all of the Handspring and Palm handhelds that had limited color screens that were condidered insufficient - and that was 2-3 years ago. Today people's standard of comparison is an Ipaq color screen, transflective, well lit, with 65k colors. To produce an expensive competitor with "media" pretensions but a much more limited screen doesn't make sense to me at all
Red Hat and the other distros don't really sell software - they should almost be considered service companies. Red Hat sales are actually "subscriptions" to their support services (which includes bug fixes, thus blurring the line between being a software company and a service company).
Having worked in the Big 6 for 7 years, I can assure you that there is tremendous upside for software services businesses - it all depends upon how much RH decides to diversify someday from being just a distro provider...they could easily branch into systems implementations around Linux systems, et al.
Gates was well-known for years before he sold IBM DOS, primarily for writing the first BASIC interpreters in ROM for MITS, Altair, and Ohio Scientific computers. I actually still OWN the last one (a C1P model w/ a 1Mhz 6502 CPU), and the copywrite date on the ROMS is 1977, by MicroSoft, Inc. As BASICs go, it was very full featured, had some neat character mapped graphics capability, and was very small.
And at that time, writing an interpreter was not yet just an undergrad course that everyone did as part of getting a CS degree...it was considered HARD. Gates wrote it all in assembler, pretty much by himself...his geek creds are pretty secure, even if a bit dated.
What were YOU doing in 1977???
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Many of us work in offices that require IE - not just because IT might want it, but because internal support pages, including web email, ONLY work well with IE. I know at my company this is the case - I, a vetran Firefox user, has no alternative, because the internal sites that I need (raise a tech support issue, order equipment, online training, etc.) simply don't work well under Firefox. And using Firefox behind their firewall gives render issues on several sites tha I like...and web mail from home doesn't work either. So I am stuck with IE at work and even sometimes at home - I might as well dress it up, give it some mints, put some lipstick on it, and kiss it... FS
what a dog:
1) no TV out according to the specs
2) Intel P4
3) Only one 3.5" drive bay
4) Intel Extreme graphics
My living room system, an Antec Aria case, Athlon64 3000+, and ATi AIW 9800Pro graphic card has more computing power, better PVR capabilities, and looks way, WAY better. And the Athlon/Aria combo is so quiet (thanks to a Zalman 7000 hsf) that I never have to turn it off - forget "instant on". And, oh yeah, I have 3 x 3.5" bays to add enough hard drives to actually STORE some MP3s, pics, and videos, unlike this poseur of a system...and who wants a touch panel - I want the RF remote of the ATi AIW so I don't even leave my couch...
Having used IBM ThinkPad extensively, and RTFA, I'd say that Linux users can look forward to getting at least part of the benefit of the new ThinkPad's multilayered security right out of the box. If we say that the new T42 has three layers:
1) Fingerprint "PowerOn" Login
2) Fingerprint OS Login
3) Harddrive and removable data encryption
It's pretty easy to see how 1) above will work seamlessly with Linux (or any OS) as it occurs before OS boot, but I highly doubt 2) and 3) will work as is. That's not to say such features can't be added, but right out of the box it looks dim.
Still, even having PowerOn fingerprint verification will stop a large number of thieves, and traditional Linux login and filesystem security can be used as layers 2) and 3). So at the very least, a T42 with the new fingerprint ID has one extra layer on top of standard Linux security. And should you not want it, you can always disable it by disabling the "PowerOn" password in the boot menu...
Thanks to the original reviewer - you just saved me, as I was getting ready to buy a T42 in the next two weeks...now I will just have to wait!
Most /. readers should be really happy about per processor licensing by Oracle. By segmenting the market into business and home users, Oracle is able to offer Personal Oracle as a free download, charge businesses depending upon how much they use Oracle (on a per processor basis, but other schemes could work, MIPS-based, datavolume-based, etc.), and still make enough money to plow into development of new sourcecode. Yeah, they make money too - companies sometimes need to do that. But overall, the use of tiered pricing has enabled Oracle to really keep prices down (free being one example) at the low end of the market.
In the end analysis, isn't it right a corporation using Oracle to make millions of dollars a day running a call center should pay more for it than a small business using it to maintain a few thousand human resource records? And shouldn't both of them pay more for it than a hacker just wanting to learn it at home? And isn't the number of processors running those databases a very good analog to determine each of those intended uses? Given that, the desire to end per processor pricing just leaves me baffled, unless the original poster believes that GPL alternatives can ONLY succeed with the extinction of per-profit databases like Oracle...I like to think the marketplace will drive the acceptance of MySQL and the others simply on their own merits.
Cause it gives you: CHICKEN KIEV!!! That, for me, suggests it's a hoax... Future Shock
The planes that hit the WTC were 767s...other planes used on 9/11 may have been 757s, as I believe the one that hit the Pentagon was. I can't recall the one that crashed in Pennsylvania, probably a 757 judging by it's route (not a traditional route for 767s, which usually fly internationally or coast-to-coast only).
If you are SERIOUS about your data modeling, ERWin is probably the best way to go. Many professional DBAs probably couldn't do their jobs without it. I would also consider Rational Rose to be on a par with ERWin, but it's ownership by IBM has rendered it "partisian" in some DBAs minds, as is Oracle's product. Erwin has the advantage of not being owned by any company that sells a database, generates code for all of them equally, and is mostly transparent across all of them, especially when transitioning between logical and physical designs. This especially makes it a favorite of consulting companies that have to move from client to client...ERWin also has an excellent tutorial on HOW to do data modeling, which can at least serve as an entry point for someone new to it's practice
On a side note, ERWin is NOT as object model-centric as Rose and some others, as it is old enough to have been developed before object modeling became cool. But that is a minor quibble.
I also find a good set of 3x5 filecards (taped up to a whiteboard or large construction paper) an excellent starting point for my models, particularly when trying to model those main logical entities that end up driving the entire design. They have the advantage over whiteboards of being at least partially on paper should someone erase the board...
The MSI Mega PC is a barebones kit that has an inbuilt CD/media player that powers on/off seperately from the PC, complete with it's own home stereo style LCD display. All you need do is add your processor, RAM, etc. and have it working...
8 megs of static RAM, 16x32 BW video to TV, 300 baud cassette interface.
OSI's own OS, w/ Microsoft 8K BASIC in ROM. All ROMs copywritten in 1977. I think I bought the system in 1980 or 81.
Yes, it worked last time I tried it...now it hides under the bed so my 2 year old son doesn't get his hands on my first and best loved PC...
Actually, the PVFS is an academic version of some stuff that is available commercially. Most of the cluster and grid processing vendors offer something similar, see Platform Computing, Globus.org (also academic), and especially Avaki's DataGrid . And Ab Initio and Torrent Systems offered parallel files and processing (not quite file systems) in commercial products as early as 1996.
Also, the PVFS offers a parallel file system, but still does not address the issue of retrieval by relevance or set operators that relational databases offer. As dataset sizes and complexity grows, this obviously can become more important than any raw performance metric...
Future Shock
Near-Term: this thing should be just as stable as every other MS product prior to version 3.0 of it. (In short, damned lousy). To make it worse, it probably also enables DRM at a file system level...
Mid-Term: FS finally works, and allows easier retrivial by relevance, author, source, etc. in ways that we can just dream of now. It's the kind of thing we didn't realize we needed until we had it...until it inevitably blows up as all MS products must do eventually. But when it works, we will be fairly happy to have it...especially end users, most of whom can't figure out a hierchical file system in the first place.
Far-Term: FS is finally able to use it's relational roots to distribute filesystems over multiple processors in an cluster or over a network. Such a system would support atomic, distributed file updates by threads of processes on differing processors (including HyperThreaded procs). Imagine a virtual filesystem that can span your whole-house network, with a single file system image...in WINDOWS.
So I guess my view is: painful in the near-term, but may be cool to have when they get it right.
Simple - get 802.11a wireless gear which doesn't work on the 2.4Ghz spectrum, but at 5+Ghz. Also get a 5Ghz. cordless phone. Encourage your neighbors to also use 802.11a... Future Shock
I get this statistic from my brother, who happens to be gay and is a practicing M.D. who has done research on the topic. He claims he hates it and wishes he was straight (he was for a while and was very unhappy). He says he wouldn't wish it on anyone as a life...but that's just the way he is. He didn't come out until his late thirties...as always, YMMV, but it's hard to beat his perspective on the issue...
There IS considerable statistical evidence that "gays are born that way." The proportion of world populations tends to average between 10-15% gay, despite wide differences in cultures, morals, religions, and lifestyles. That is a very strong link to there being a genetic prediliction, rather than a cultural one.
So this thing exists as a mobile media center, ready for us to pop up the jpgs of our kids on the the screen rather than pull a wallet photo out. I admit it makes sense, and I do it all the time on my Pocket PC, but not on a 4096 color screen! What was Sony thinking? This reminds of all of the Handspring and Palm handhelds that had limited color screens that were condidered insufficient - and that was 2-3 years ago. Today people's standard of comparison is an Ipaq color screen, transflective, well lit, with 65k colors. To produce an expensive competitor with "media" pretensions but a much more limited screen doesn't make sense to me at all
Red Hat and the other distros don't really sell software - they should almost be considered service companies. Red Hat sales are actually "subscriptions" to their support services (which includes bug fixes, thus blurring the line between being a software company and a service company). Having worked in the Big 6 for 7 years, I can assure you that there is tremendous upside for software services businesses - it all depends upon how much RH decides to diversify someday from being just a distro provider...they could easily branch into systems implementations around Linux systems, et al.
Gates was well-known for years before he sold IBM DOS, primarily for writing the first BASIC interpreters in ROM for MITS, Altair, and Ohio Scientific computers. I actually still OWN the last one (a C1P model w/ a 1Mhz 6502 CPU), and the copywrite date on the ROMS is 1977, by MicroSoft, Inc. As BASICs go, it was very full featured, had some neat character mapped graphics capability, and was very small. And at that time, writing an interpreter was not yet just an undergrad course that everyone did as part of getting a CS degree...it was considered HARD. Gates wrote it all in assembler, pretty much by himself...his geek creds are pretty secure, even if a bit dated. What were YOU doing in 1977???