When I was researching building myself a little mini-itx box for playing dvd's and doing PVR I considered transmeta and via CPUs and boards.
The via sort of has reasonable support in linux, however the transmeta seems not to be very open about giving drivers etc away.
In the end I gave up and just used a long lead from the already present old server (Was doing firewall 7 routing etc) to the TV.
The idea of a cool & quiet little PC to do that was great, but unless you get prices less than an pc with a quieting kit and good support under linux (and windows) then it's not going to work.
To beat the incumbant you have to out perform and ouotprice it. Transmeta's problem is that AMD was already giving this a good go and people just don't want to use the unproven.
I'm not trolling here before I do get flamed, however who gives a monkeys.
What relevance does a blog have to most people. I find them annoying and they tend to have people bitching about their mates etc. Any sensible person wouldn't post that they had done x on a blog unless they were trying to tell the world.
People who weblog are craving attention from the rest of the world.
Indeed especially in a corperate environment where you don't want windows auto updating with untested patches. If you have adaware/spybot & windows & you av & A.N.OtherApp updating itself you soon find your systems become unmaintainable or that user systems randomly break when things conflict.
There is no anti MS motive, I indeed worked as a windows sys-admin and at the time used linux on my system due to worms. I had a windows box to test patches on.
My point is this causes hastle to users & admin who do not need it.
I can install apps x, y , z and utilities p, q & r.
I must update all of these regularly and patch my system almost consistantly.
For the average user a swap to MAcOS X or similar is far easier than putting up with this crap. I have just given a live CD to my father who was pleasently supprised and is now considering a switch to linux on the PC. His next computer may be a mac or a PC that depends on his needs at the time.
I'm not MS bashing, I am pointing out that an average user should not need to worry as much as a windows user does about patching their system.
Face it most users don't path or install 101 wizzy utils to clean up your system.
Regardless, I don't see a problem with giving users the option to remove these things which trade their personal details.
Who actually reads all the agreement to use the software?
How many of them know their personal details are being sold?
How many people know what is actually being collected.
How many people got these "tools" from a random e-mail saying look this is cool?
I can hear what your saying, but I think the user is allowed the right to remove the spyware.
If the company doesn't want them to use the tool without the spyware then make it break without it and inform the user they removed the spyware which collects their details and would they like to reinstall it or remove the free "tool".
Sure some spyware is worse than others, but the user deserves the choice.
I find the really destructive stuff seems to play with the registry which is why I suggested an alternative OS.
Of course not running as Admin or Root helps for these as does not using IE.
WIth FIrefox I tend to allow the cookies, then blast them when I close the window. Makes browsing easier as some sites are persistantly annoying in the fact that they won't work without cookies enabled.
Well Spybot may not do great, but it certainly does enough to clean up a persons PC so it works again without crashing every 5 minute.
My reccomendation is firefox or mozilla or even opera if you prefer it.
I do however note that if you take a clean system and then visit msn.com, then run spybot etc you will find that there are little evils that appear on your system.
It now appears that the best option is to wave goodbye to MS if you can. Pick a nice linux distro (eg Ubuntu or whatever suits you) or even MacOS X and feel that little bit safer.
"Continuing on a previous slashdot story regarding Arenstorf's proof of the existence of Infinitely Many First Posts, it seems that a hole has recently been found in the proof, however mathematicians remain hopeful that the proof can be corrected."
All the advantages of SCSI, a nice thin cable, much higher speeds than SATA or SCSI and you can plug in a SATA HDD and it will just work at native SATA speeds:)
Don't get me wrong it's good that code is optimised, but I think that RC4 would fly faster on an IA64 than an opteron if specifically optimised to take advantage of the CPU's features.
RC4 isn't really that relavent in real life as wep is crap & also easily done in hardware anyway.
The 64 bit advantage will suffer thesame fate as the 32bit advantage did for the 486, pentium & especially the Pentium Pro.
486 = 32bits, faster but people still bought 386's due to cost.
Pentium = 32bits, sometimes faster but again costs meant 486's stayed popular.
Pentium Pro = 32bit, 16 bit instrucations stalled it. WHen running pure 32bit code ran like the dogs, when running 16bit code (win 98) ran like a dog.
Problem is that your generally better off saving your cash, buying a cheap CPU (32bit in this case) and waiting for the 2nd/3rd Generation CPU. By that time prices will more reasonable and you will see the full advantages as programs will use the extra bits properly.
I mean come on MS still hasn't released a final AMD64 version of Winblows yet.
I'm guessing Dell is doing this on the basis that some of it's big customers said can you do a linux distro and if not we are going elsewhere.
Dell is well in the Wintel camp.
Only Intel CPU's and a few words about AMD to keep intel on their toes.
The laptop I have "only works with MS windows" altho I have gentoo on it.
These announcements will be due to the business side of companies realising that if they don't offer what the customer wants then they will go to another company that does.
They run mozilla (1.73) and FireFox (1.0PR) They have spybot removing spyware and the AV definitions & windows Update & manually applied hotfixes are all up to date.
You will find that when mozilla mail pulls down the latest mail with an attachment of netsky then craps itself cause it can't 'truncate the mailbox' due to the AV software restricting access to said mail box that is not about securing the PC.
I personally run Windows and Gentoo on the desktop & Free BSD on any important servers.
I did infact admin windows servers and can secure them correctly. So if your going to get all stupid with your posts, please at least provide a username so I know who is going.
It's not like the British Government listens to anybody anyway (Well except for Dubayew), so why will they listen to this.
I am personally sick of windows worms and viri. Even will a fully updates system with the latest AV definitions you still have the hastle of sorting it out when the AV finds one that it has pulled down.
My Point - Love to see it happen, but not holding my breath
I have only listen to music on the net so I can listen to an album to see if i like it. If i do I buy it and if not then I don't and any trace is deleted from my PC immediately. I usually don't even bother downloading it, just listening to it online.
I recently purchased a CD "Foo Fighters - One by One" This won't play in my DVD Player or my PC even thought there is a label on it saying will play on PC's with the software included.
Problem is my PC (And the DVD) see it as an audio CD with tracks of the right length, but silent, on it.
Oddly enough since I couldn't listen to it, the "CD" went back (I quote CD since it meets no CD standards). I have now told everone I know not to buy this CD and I am never going to buy any music from this company (BMG / RCA) until they stop this lunacy.
I wonder how much it would cost all the retailers to change their 'CD' signs to '12cm pieces of plastic containing stupidly restricted musical content'?
Seriously since these 'protected' dics don't meet any CD standard then they really ought to change the signs. Otherwise I think I will be going to the office of fair trading to say that the venders are misrepresenting the goods. They are claiming to sell me a CD while not doing so.
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When I was researching building myself a little mini-itx box for playing dvd's and doing PVR I considered transmeta and via CPUs and boards.
The via sort of has reasonable support in linux, however the transmeta seems not to be very open about giving drivers etc away.
In the end I gave up and just used a long lead from the already present old server (Was doing firewall 7 routing etc) to the TV.
The idea of a cool & quiet little PC to do that was great, but unless you get prices less than an pc with a quieting kit and good support under linux (and windows) then it's not going to work.
To beat the incumbant you have to out perform and ouotprice it. Transmeta's problem is that AMD was already giving this a good go and people just don't want to use the unproven.
c'est pour moi?
No you see I go and talk to my mates to catch up rather than reading their life on a website.
Much better:)
I'm not trolling here before I do get flamed, however who gives a monkeys.
What relevance does a blog have to most people. I find them annoying and they tend to have people bitching about their mates etc.
Any sensible person wouldn't post that they had done x on a blog unless they were trying to tell the world.
People who weblog are craving attention from the rest of the world.
Sorry but go get a diary and write in in there.
(In case you hadn't noticed, yes I hate bloggers)
Things do not all update themselves.
Indeed especially in a corperate environment where you don't want windows auto updating with untested patches. If you have adaware/spybot & windows & you av & A.N.OtherApp updating itself you soon find your systems become unmaintainable or that user systems randomly break when things conflict.
There is no anti MS motive, I indeed worked as a windows sys-admin and at the time used linux on my system due to worms. I had a windows box to test patches on.
My point is this causes hastle to users & admin who do not need it.
Hmm lets see...
I can install apps x, y , z and utilities p, q & r.
I must update all of these regularly and patch my system almost consistantly.
For the average user a swap to MAcOS X or similar is far easier than putting up with this crap. I have just given a live CD to my father who was pleasently supprised and is now considering a switch to linux on the PC. His next computer may be a mac or a PC that depends on his needs at the time.
I'm not MS bashing, I am pointing out that an average user should not need to worry as much as a windows user does about patching their system.
Face it most users don't path or install 101 wizzy utils to clean up your system.
-
Who actually reads all the agreement to use the software?
-
How many of them know their personal details are being sold?
-
How many people know what is actually being collected.
-
How many people got these "tools" from a random e-mail saying look this is cool?
I can hear what your saying, but I think the user is allowed the right to remove the spyware.If the company doesn't want them to use the tool without the spyware then make it break without it and inform the user they removed the spyware which collects their details and would they like to reinstall it or remove the free "tool".
Sure some spyware is worse than others, but the user deserves the choice.
I find the really destructive stuff seems to play with the registry which is why I suggested an alternative OS.
Of course not running as Admin or Root helps for these as does not using IE.
WIth FIrefox I tend to allow the cookies, then blast them when I close the window. Makes browsing easier as some sites are persistantly annoying in the fact that they won't work without cookies enabled.
Well Spybot may not do great, but it certainly does enough to clean up a persons PC so it works again without crashing every 5 minute.
My reccomendation is firefox or mozilla or even opera if you prefer it.
I do however note that if you take a clean system and then visit msn.com, then run spybot etc you will find that there are little evils that appear on your system.
It now appears that the best option is to wave goodbye to MS if you can. Pick a nice linux distro (eg Ubuntu or whatever suits you) or even MacOS X and feel that little bit safer.
The owners of Goatse.cx are to sue slashdot for posting links to their website.
Link intentionally not included!
War Stars You!!
:p
What it had to be said.. at least it's out the way now
"Continuing on a previous slashdot story regarding Arenstorf's proof of the existence of Infinitely Many First Posts, it seems that a hole has recently been found in the proof, however mathematicians remain hopeful that the proof can be corrected."
I'll wait for Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) thanks.
:)
All the advantages of SCSI, a nice thin cable, much higher speeds than SATA or SCSI and you can plug in a SATA HDD and it will just work at native SATA speeds
SCO has noticed code violations in other website which are directly taken from our own site.
/" - used on other pages and I guess we should have used XHTML too ;)
;)
Due to this we have pulled our site to prevent further theft and will be taking legal action to defend our interlectual property.
Examples of stolen code include:
"html" - used on many lines in many pages.
"/html" - used on many lines in many pages.
"br
On consultation with out lawyers they said this case whad a good chance of being profitable, although they didn't say who for
SCO has noticed code violations in other website which are directly taken from our own site.
;)
;)
Due to this we have pulled our site to prevent further theft and will be taking legal action to defend our interlectual property.
Examples of stolen code include:
- used on many lines in may pages.
- used on many lines in may pages.
- used on other pages and I guess we should have used XHTML too
On consultation with out lawyers they said this case whad a good chance of being profitable, although they didn't say who for
There are a few options here:
1) Use SATA/SAS/Fiber connectors
2) Buy rounded versions of the parralel cables
3) - Carefully shred the normal cables,
- Wrap them in foil if you want
- Wrap them in some pipe/heat shrink.
Then all you do is bend the things and run them around the case with cable ties.
How on earth is this news?
Thats like saying use cables of only the length you need to make less clutter in your case.
Don't get me wrong it's good that code is optimised, but I think that RC4 would fly faster on an IA64 than an opteron if specifically optimised to take advantage of the CPU's features.
RC4 isn't really that relavent in real life as wep is crap & also easily done in hardware anyway.
The 64 bit advantage will suffer thesame fate as the 32bit advantage did for the 486, pentium & especially the Pentium Pro.
486 = 32bits, faster but people still bought 386's due to cost.
Pentium = 32bits, sometimes faster but again costs meant 486's stayed popular.
Pentium Pro = 32bit, 16 bit instrucations stalled it. WHen running pure 32bit code ran like the dogs, when running 16bit code (win 98) ran like a dog.
Problem is that your generally better off saving your cash, buying a cheap CPU (32bit in this case) and waiting for the 2nd/3rd Generation CPU. By that time prices will more reasonable and you will see the full advantages as programs will use the extra bits properly.
I mean come on MS still hasn't released a final AMD64 version of Winblows yet.
I'm sorry, but how is this flameait?
I saying that it's good we are going and looking around our own planet.
Well it's about time we fully explored our own planet rather then jetting off into space.
:)
Space is cool and everything, but I think looking after our planet and exploring the seas etc would be a lot cooler
I'm guessing Dell is doing this on the basis that some of it's big customers said can you do a linux distro and if not we are going elsewhere.
:)
Dell is well in the Wintel camp.
Only Intel CPU's and a few words about AMD to keep intel on their toes.
The laptop I have "only works with MS windows" altho I have gentoo on it.
These announcements will be due to the business side of companies realising that if they don't offer what the customer wants then they will go to another company that does.
History repeats itself
Insightful?
Guys it was a joke.
Well Yeah, I am sick of men.
:)
If the world was 99% female... well most of us men would probably be a lot happier
Erm no, these are family boxes.
They run mozilla (1.73) and FireFox (1.0PR) They have spybot removing spyware and the AV definitions & windows Update & manually applied hotfixes are all up to date.
You will find that when mozilla mail pulls down the latest mail with an attachment of netsky then craps itself cause it can't 'truncate the mailbox' due to the AV software restricting access to said mail box that is not about securing the PC.
I personally run Windows and Gentoo on the desktop & Free BSD on any important servers.
I did infact admin windows servers and can secure them correctly. So if your going to get all stupid with your posts, please at least provide a username so I know who is going.
Can the OSS movement afford the backhanders needed to get governments to use their software ;)
It's not like the British Government listens to anybody anyway (Well except for Dubayew), so why will they listen to this.
I am personally sick of windows worms and viri. Even will a fully updates system with the latest AV definitions you still have the hastle of sorting it out when the AV finds one that it has pulled down.
My Point - Love to see it happen, but not holding my breath
I have only listen to music on the net so I can listen to an album to see if i like it. If i do I buy it and if not then I don't and any trace is deleted from my PC immediately. I usually don't even bother downloading it, just listening to it online.
:D
I recently purchased a CD "Foo Fighters - One by One" This won't play in my DVD Player or my PC even thought there is a label on it saying will play on PC's with the software included.
Problem is my PC (And the DVD) see it as an audio CD with tracks of the right length, but silent, on it.
Oddly enough since I couldn't listen to it, the "CD" went back (I quote CD since it meets no CD standards). I have now told everone I know not to buy this CD and I am never going to buy any music from this company (BMG / RCA) until they stop this lunacy.
I wonder how much it would cost all the retailers to change their 'CD' signs to '12cm pieces of plastic containing stupidly restricted musical content'?
Seriously since these 'protected' dics don't meet any CD standard then they really ought to change the signs. Otherwise I think I will be going to the office of fair trading to say that the venders are misrepresenting the goods. They are claiming to sell me a CD while not doing so.
Mmm Sounds like fun