If you have a very robust local network with plenty of spare capacity, and can accept a performance hit on the client computers, I am sure some kind of linked filesystem would be possible. In most practical situations, I think this idea would be a non-starter.
Macintosh leads the pack of Vista alternatives, with support from 28% of respondents. About a quarter said they would opt for Red Hat Linux, with SUSE Linux and Ubuntu each garnering 18% of the vote. Another 9% cited other Linux operating systems and 4% were unsure.
28 + 18 + 9 = 55. However, 44% was the claimed number considering alternatives (that 4% doesn't count). Perhaps each was allowed to cite multiple choices?
I have problems with your quoted paragraph myself, but not for the reasons you cited. The percentages they quote are for only those considering alternatives.
The figures in this case are Linux (25 + 18 + 18 + 9) about 70%, Mac 28% and 4% unsure. I assume this adds up to over 100% because the number for Red Hat was actually less than 25%.
My main gripe is that the casual reader does not see the very interesting fact that getting on for three times as many are looking at a Linux migration versus a Mac migration. I am actually skeptical of this survey but, if this is true, this is a stunning statistic.
an article at Tech.co.uk wonders if someday the megabit and gigabit classes of net connections will join kilobits in the 'antique tech' bin.
I can remember when kilobit/sec connections were something to look forward to. I traveled three years (early '80s) with an acoustic coupler that could often communicate back to the office only at 300 baud (and periodically error out at that speed). Usually, I wanted to use 3270 emulation over the connection. This is like watching paint dry only more boring. It did have occasional redeeming value, however. Watching the emulated 3270 data stream slowly displaying itself on the screen was a great way to visualize where data streams were miscoded!
Breaching Microsoft's email [non-]retention policy and having the truth about Microsoft business activities turn up during discovery in some legal action.
Facebook's move to 64 bits will allow it to have more than 18 quintillion (18,446,744,074,000,000,000) user accounts. Of course, there are currently only about 6.5 billion people in the world. Is Facebook setting their sights beyond Earth...?
My assumption is that Facebook is betting on the success of the Vatican's campaign against birth control. I just cannot imagine extra terrestrials being willing to put up with the multi-year latency required to post and retrieve photos from an earth-based server.
... was that it was too polite. No doubt, instead of trying to be helpful, it should have berated you for being too fucking stupid to work out how to use MS Office correctly. At any rate, I have absolutely no doubt that many on help desks will be relieved to know that they can now react to user problems in that way. It will definitely lower their stress, though the effect on the users is less clear.
Sorry, have worked out that the Attend button is at the bottom of the list of parties, not with the description of the party itself. With a long list, that is not exactly obvious.
There is no way to add oneself to the attendees for the party. I even checked the HTML source in case it was just a problem with my eyesight. Judging by the number of 1 attendee parties I can see, I suspect it is not just me having this problem.
I agree that Microsoft wishes to kill Outlook Express and replace it with something that generates them revenue. I do not agree that Outlook is better than Outlook Express as a pure email client.
Outlook Express certainly has weaknesses, but it is relatively standards compliant. If one of my customers sends me an email using Outlook Express, I will be able to read it with whatever email client I am using at the time. If someone uses Outlook to send me mail, I may be faced with a Winmail.DAT attachment that nothing except Outlook (and a few webmail sites) can interpret. Similarly, any mail that I have stored in Outlook Express is easily exported to other mail clients. With Outlook, third party products are necessary to avoid serious lock-in. In some areas (again, considering just email in isolation) OE has better functionality. In particular, the IMAP support in OE is better than that in Outlook 2003.
Every site I have ever been to that uses Outlook experiences periodic Outlook lock-ups. These will often clear themselves after a few minutes, but have a real impact on productivity. Sometimes, their cause is quite mysterious.
I allow that Outlook in conjunction with Exchange has some compelling functionality, especially in the areas of shared folders and calendar/task management. These make Outlook an appropriate choice at times, but I am always relieved when the decision goes against Outlook.
Treat software and computers with caution, like walking through a major city's downtown at midnight.
If you choose the city carefully, the dangers can be negligible. As an example, I live in Bangkok. If you are walking around roaring drunk in this city at 2:00am, you are not in any real physical danger. (You may get pick-pocketed by someone targeting drunks, though.)
I think the analogy with software and computers is actually pretty good.
The price and specifications for the Eee PC have changed from those first announced by ASUS. The price rose from US$199 to US$249, while the base (USA model) went from 4 to 2 gigabyte solid state drive, the VGA camera was dropped and the RAM dropped from 512MB to 256MB.
I still consider both the OLPC and Eee PC to be extremely interesting. However, the rugged nature, lower power consumption, genuinely inovative interface, mesh networking and superior security model makes the OLPC a tremendous achievement, even at $188 (or $210 if that happens).
You have a point. I remember looking at the source of a roughly 1989 vintage version of Kermit. Although the source was tiny, compared even to most sophisticated programs of that era, I felt like I was involved in advanced cryptography. Most of the (to me) impenetrable code was designed to deal with the quirks of dozens of kinds of communication equipment while using minimal memory. If the source code had been properly documented, it would have been OK, but it wasn't. Mind you, modern root kits seem to use many of the same programming techniques (along with the lack of comments).
I can well imagine that just running an emulator on modern equipment would be inadequate as the whole peripheral interface is likely incompatible with current standards. However, I am at a loss to understand why they cannot just reimplement the current setup using modern and more reliable components. It must cost a fortune to maintain such old computers and, according to TFA, they want to keep them running for well over 10 more years.
It would be hideously expensive to have Windows Vista PCs with Office 2007 on every seat of a jetliner.
No question, there would be some additional hardware and support costs, but I bet Microsoft would make a very sweet offer to any major airline that wanted to subject all their passengers to Windows Vista.
While I am not one of those people who claims to be able to tell the difference between 192kbps and 256kbps MP3s, a sampling rate of 32kbps is obviously degraded even to my aging ears.
This is Vista content protection backfiring, plain and simple.
That is one strong possibility. However, remember that, with Vista, Microsoft replaced the proven TCP/IP stack (that they years ago lifted from BSD) with one they wrote themselves. I see no reason why there could not be horrible design errors in the new stack responsible for such a problem.
I know most of us here generally use operating systems that do not require regular re-installation. However, in the Windows world, an annual (or more frequent) re-install is par for the course. If the DMCA requires that certain registry entries and files be kept, this would presumably make such re-installation illegal. Does anyone here on/. have a good method for identifying if protected files and/or registry entries exist on a machine? Does the DMCA basically mean that, in the event of virus or other malware infestation, you must buy a new computer as reformatting the old one is not permitted? Do the standard TCO calculations for Windows machines take this into account?
This is the "Vista Experience Index". It predicts the experience you will have running Vista on that hardware relative to a projected ideal. The maximum achievable with the current version of Vista is 5.9. Microsoft hopes they can up this to a maximum of 6.2 when Service Pack 1 is released. (The numbers are out of 100, and the numbers for OSX and different Linux distributions are Microsoft confidential.)
Very valid argument. Incidentally, any of you with girlfriends that are providing you with free sex should carefully consider this. The streetwalkers in your nearest city must be better because otherwise they would not be able to charge for it. While your girlfriend might be OK for some amateur playing around, if you are looking to become serious and marry, you need to find someone who is professional about this.
While I suspect UDF will have decent performance characteristics, especially for single thread reading, on most platforms, are there not two huge drawbacks?
UDF is not a journalling FS. Given its original purpose, there is no reason why this should ever have been considered necessary. However, once you try to use it as a general purpose harddrive FS, it becomes critical. You might just as well stick to FAT32 if data loss after a crash is considered acceptable.
Write support is limited to a few operating systems. On Linux and Vista, the R/W support seems almost there. On other systems, it seems to be a work in progress.
I have read this topic carefully as I would dearly like a better option but, frankly, the first post seems to me to be correct: use NTFS-3g or trade in the USB drive for a LAN drive. If you are using a 3.5" HDD, the LAN drive is the same size and weight. Neither of these options has great performance.
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If you have a very robust local network with plenty of spare capacity, and can accept a performance hit on the client computers, I am sure some kind of linked filesystem would be possible. In most practical situations, I think this idea would be a non-starter.
... but whether this means it really produces power from water vapour, or is an idea they cannot implement is unclear.
Well, at least they have removed his erroneous entry from the database. Hopefully, that will ensure that he is not murdered twice.
The figures in this case are Linux (25 + 18 + 18 + 9) about 70%, Mac 28% and 4% unsure. I assume this adds up to over 100% because the number for Red Hat was actually less than 25%.
My main gripe is that the casual reader does not see the very interesting fact that getting on for three times as many are looking at a Linux migration versus a Mac migration. I am actually skeptical of this survey but, if this is true, this is a stunning statistic.
I can remember when kilobit/sec connections were something to look forward to. I traveled three years (early '80s) with an acoustic coupler that could often communicate back to the office only at 300 baud (and periodically error out at that speed). Usually, I wanted to use 3270 emulation over the connection. This is like watching paint dry only more boring. It did have occasional redeeming value, however. Watching the emulated 3270 data stream slowly displaying itself on the screen was a great way to visualize where data streams were miscoded!
If not, Microsoft is going to be hard pressed to match Google in performance, however much money they throw at the problem.
... was that it was too polite. No doubt, instead of trying to be helpful, it should have berated you for being too fucking stupid to work out how to use MS Office correctly. At any rate, I have absolutely no doubt that many on help desks will be relieved to know that they can now react to user problems in that way. It will definitely lower their stress, though the effect on the users is less clear.
Done. (I live in Bangkok where such copies are easy to come by.) Of course, the legal cost is all yous!
Sorry, have worked out that the Attend button is at the bottom of the list of parties, not with the description of the party itself. With a long list, that is not exactly obvious.
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There is no way to add oneself to the attendees for the party. I even checked the HTML source in case it was just a problem with my eyesight. Judging by the number of 1 attendee parties I can see, I suspect it is not just me having this problem.
Outlook Express certainly has weaknesses, but it is relatively standards compliant. If one of my customers sends me an email using Outlook Express, I will be able to read it with whatever email client I am using at the time. If someone uses Outlook to send me mail, I may be faced with a Winmail.DAT attachment that nothing except Outlook (and a few webmail sites) can interpret. Similarly, any mail that I have stored in Outlook Express is easily exported to other mail clients. With Outlook, third party products are necessary to avoid serious lock-in. In some areas (again, considering just email in isolation) OE has better functionality. In particular, the IMAP support in OE is better than that in Outlook 2003.
Every site I have ever been to that uses Outlook experiences periodic Outlook lock-ups. These will often clear themselves after a few minutes, but have a real impact on productivity. Sometimes, their cause is quite mysterious.
I allow that Outlook in conjunction with Exchange has some compelling functionality, especially in the areas of shared folders and calendar/task management. These make Outlook an appropriate choice at times, but I am always relieved when the decision goes against Outlook.
I think the analogy with software and computers is actually pretty good.
You have a point. I remember looking at the source of a roughly 1989 vintage version of Kermit. Although the source was tiny, compared even to most sophisticated programs of that era, I felt like I was involved in advanced cryptography. Most of the (to me) impenetrable code was designed to deal with the quirks of dozens of kinds of communication equipment while using minimal memory. If the source code had been properly documented, it would have been OK, but it wasn't. Mind you, modern root kits seem to use many of the same programming techniques (along with the lack of comments).
I can well imagine that just running an emulator on modern equipment would be inadequate as the whole peripheral interface is likely incompatible with current standards. However, I am at a loss to understand why they cannot just reimplement the current setup using modern and more reliable components. It must cost a fortune to maintain such old computers and, according to TFA, they want to keep them running for well over 10 more years.
While I am not one of those people who claims to be able to tell the difference between 192kbps and 256kbps MP3s, a sampling rate of 32kbps is obviously degraded even to my aging ears.
I know most of us here generally use operating systems that do not require regular re-installation. However, in the Windows world, an annual (or more frequent) re-install is par for the course. If the DMCA requires that certain registry entries and files be kept, this would presumably make such re-installation illegal. Does anyone here on /. have a good method for identifying if protected files and/or registry entries exist on a machine? Does the DMCA basically mean that, in the event of virus or other malware infestation, you must buy a new computer as reformatting the old one is not permitted? Do the standard TCO calculations for Windows machines take this into account?
This is the "Vista Experience Index". It predicts the experience you will have running Vista on that hardware relative to a projected ideal. The maximum achievable with the current version of Vista is 5.9. Microsoft hopes they can up this to a maximum of 6.2 when Service Pack 1 is released. (The numbers are out of 100, and the numbers for OSX and different Linux distributions are Microsoft confidential.)
Very valid argument. Incidentally, any of you with girlfriends that are providing you with free sex should carefully consider this. The streetwalkers in your nearest city must be better because otherwise they would not be able to charge for it. While your girlfriend might be OK for some amateur playing around, if you are looking to become serious and marry, you need to find someone who is professional about this.
- UDF is not a journalling FS. Given its original purpose, there is no reason why this should ever have been considered necessary. However, once you try to use it as a general purpose harddrive FS, it becomes critical. You might just as well stick to FAT32 if data loss after a crash is considered acceptable.
- Write support is limited to a few operating systems. On Linux and Vista, the R/W support seems almost there. On other systems, it seems to be a work in progress.
I have read this topic carefully as I would dearly like a better option but, frankly, the first post seems to me to be correct: use NTFS-3g or trade in the USB drive for a LAN drive. If you are using a 3.5" HDD, the LAN drive is the same size and weight. Neither of these options has great performance.