I do not feel I was being an ass. I just want slashdotters to stop posting whatever they feel like, and actually start posting statements they can stand behind. It would be nice to read comments from real workers at real companies as apposed to every slashdotter claiming that he works for whatever company he needs to say he works for, just to back up his point.
Dude, I said same exchange, of course they have the same area, code, but their not supposed to be able to have the same exchange. And no, it wasn't flaimbait. I am serious, I was told that cell phones and land lines could never have the same exchange by the FCC, and one of the parents made some random claim that he worked for a cell phone company, and they can switch your home phone over to your cell phone if you like.
These aren't people, There ACs. ACs are something that's below the lowest of the low. The complete lack of accountability make them like a child prank calling somebody. They don't stand by their statements at all, and I would love to meet the guy who said he would punch me in the nose.
I was simply saying that this guys competition was pretty pussed out. If he thinks linux is so secure we shouldn't need the rules he stipulated.
I would say the odds, of a non-technical company, such as the automotive industry, to switch over to linux are probably the same odds you have at winning the lottery. Major corporations that don't know computers, don't take risks with a piece of software that is almost completely impossible to get support for.
Windows 2000 Advanced was far better than all the previous NTs, and from what I have seen, Windows 2003 server runs amazingly quick and light. There seem to be significant performance advantages to the upgrade. And by the way, there were many facilities that never ever got code red or Nimda.
because microsoft had a patch out almost immediately and if you were intelligent, you downloaded it and applied it. If there were have as many hackers trying to hack linux as there are people trying to hack windows, I am sure we would see all of Linux's flaws as well.
Sir there are three reasons why I don't believe you. You posted as anonymous coward for one, two you said you work for a cell phone carrier and your involved in the development fo the porting system, but you failed to mention what that carrier is. And three, your on slashdot.
Currently all cell phone exchanges are specifically only for cell phones, reason number one why you don't get a lot of calls from people trying to sell you stuff, because telesales aren't allowed to call these exchanges. Now how would they then let cell phones start having normal exchanges. Give me the number, of just one, one single person that has a cell phone that has the same area code and exchange as a landline phone. and I will believe you.
GIVE ME INFO not BS
What's up with these rules. No damage done to any data? I have to leave port 25 open? what a legitimate exploit and what's script kiddie stuff. Last time I checked there was no hacking rule book, this sounds a lot like flag football, sort of like football, but the pussy version.
I imagine that in all reality, Microsoft is hacked more than linux because it is on 95% of the computers. Linux has shit loads of holes. Give me the address of your public linux server and I'll give you the address of my windows box, and we'll see who go's down first.
really???I played it through without cheating the first time and beat it in maybe 2 weeks. I thought it was an amazing game, your problem, probably stems from playing a first person shooter on a council, which is simply a very silly idea.
I hope I can get halo for my computer whoop X-box players asses when they get on internet servers.
lets face it, I can shoot someone in the head, using my mouse, about 3 times as fast as they can aim with a joystick.
Maybe they just don't like posting every way to hack into the OS on a website read by millions of juvenile hackers. I mean I am sure all the people with public linux servers would just love that. Oh shit, someone just found 30 different ways to hack my box, and oh christ, their not going to have a patch for these problems untill some open source programmer gets around to fixing it.
This is the only problem with open source, If you find a security hole in a Sun system, or god forbid, a windows 2000 system, the community tries to keep it as quite as possible while their programmers come out with a patch and release it to everyone.
While in open source, I have to announce that my front door lock is broken, to the whole world, and hope that a good natured lock smith fixes it, before half the crooks in the world steal all my stuff and rape my dog.
dude you can just type archive at the start of the link in place of "www" and your in. You must not be much of a computer user if you couldn't figure this out.
Editors let these stories through because ocassionally I get tired of reading "I love Linux" articles
Especially in Counterstrike. I took down my counterstrike server because I spent half my time banning cheaters. The key thing I turned off was the ability to see anything after you died, I found players would ghost enimies and then relay this to their teamates sitting in the same room. It really pissed me off, because of an obvious reason, the dead shouldn't be able to talk to the living, (without a medium and a big seance).
I think cheating in one player games, like I did after I went through and beat Hitman 2 the first time, is fun. But people who cheat in online games, how do they even find it enjoyable. Have the fun of the game is the challenge, being able to cheat and win is stupid. Just develop your skills and get better.
All cheaters should have their IP and user name out on a CS ban list, that all CS servers will automatically view and then BAN those people.
Am I the only person that likes having a phone that actually puts the mic near his mouth and the speaker near his ear, my friends cell phone is so small, I have to choose between shouting, or not hearing a damn thing, because if the speaker is at my ear, the mic is at my cheek and if the mic is at my mouth the speeker is about 2 inches below my ear. lol
I think home users are a good example of users, and office users that don't do graphics or architectural designs. You know why, because these people that you don't consider users, account for 90% of computer users, and being in business, I know that doing something that 90% of your customer base has no use of, is ummm....kind of silly.
This confused me as well. their sending out a poll to find out how many developers, develop for linux as apposed to windows, and they send it to known linux developers. lol. That's like sending out a poll on how many people smoke cigarettes only to people who have purchased things with camel cash.
SCSI drives perform better because they are different drives, it is not simply because they are SCSI. Most current drives have a sustainable drive read rate of 48MBps, which is far under the 133. And I imagine, that in a drive to drive copy on the same system you will be limited on the write speed of a drive which is much slower than its read speed. SCSI drives are often faster because they are 10,000 or 15,000 RPM drives, as apposed to 7500 RPM drives. They are physically different drives.
And why are you assuming he has them in a master dumb slave combination, most computer users take advantage of IDE raid these days.
And why on earth would you be doing a drive to drive copy with SCSI, if you have SCSI wouldn't you have them in RAID 0,1,5 ? In which case you can't do a drive to drive copy because the computer sees the multiple drives as one drive?
I am glad you posted under anonymous coward, I wouldn't have put my name on that post either.
I believe the freezer trick is designed for drives that are suffering bearing issues. In a lot of drives, their problem is that the bearings have gotten flat spots or other problems and as they heat up because of too much friction, they make it impossible for the drive to spin up. But when you put these drives in thefreezer you constrict the size of the bearings and reduce the temperature of the drive as a whole. It only works for a while, because eventually the bearings expand with heat, and cause too much friction again, and put the drive to a hault.
Sounded like an honest question.
Yes we have started to test Serial drives, on a couple of the newer motherboards. I own a consulting company and we like to test all hardware before allowing any of out clients to deploy it.
So we were running tests on the Seagate Barracuda series, as you well know is about the only drive we could get our hands on. For our motherboard we used a Abit KD7-S RAID. I happen to love Abit, but I have no data to prove this is the best board, I guess it's just a gut feeling.
The install went easy, and yes, it freed up a lot of space in the computer, which may be an advantage to dual CPU people who have heat problems in their cases. Maybe in the future they'll make cases around the idea of having the heat output of the hard drive farther from the CPU because of the length available to serial ata.
But if your looking for a big performance jump. I am terribly sorry. It is a very nice system, and runs fine, I will say, I had no troubles whatsoever and have added this box to my home network, and use it for encoding my home videos of my sons soccer tapes, 7 years of soccer, 15 games a year= lots and lots of divx encoding time. lol.
But seriously, if your a gamer, or for that matter, just a performance computer enthusiast that is still concerned with cost, then get yourself a good ATA133 drive. For the cost of the drives and the larger drive sizes you can buy, I think it isn't worth it to make the jump to Serial ATA yet.
But we have found something to use these Serial ATA drives for. I now have a small computer installed into the trunk of my TA and I run serial ATA and power to a mount I installed in my dash, where I now have a place that I can push in a Serial ATA drive to use in my in car DVD/MP3/Fuel control system computer.
It's great, I can plug in an 80GB hard drive in my house, transfer all the divx movies, MP3s and whatever else I want for my week of commuting to and from the office, pop the drive out of my case at home, (I made it so I can slide it in/out of the face) and pop the drive in my dash in my car, and watch my divx's on my in dash LCD when I am sitting in high traffic.
So this technology certainly has its advantages.
even if it really isn't speed yet.
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Ummm...do you look at a lot of static images on your monitor? I ussually play movies and such on mine.So the time it takes these things to change from one color to another matters just as much as the time it takes to refresh the amount of light on the screen.
Plus I would like to discuss the lifetime of an average lcd display. I work at a facility that has been using LCDs for 4 years now, we buy princetons, and corneas, and I have found that we replace an LCD display about 3 times as often as a monitor. We have a monitor in our system room, a big 21" trinitron that has been sitting there for 6 years and it still looks as good as the day we bought it. LCDs tend to suffer backlight problems, bad pixels, poor resolution.
They don't have an infinitely high refresh rate, hence why you can't set them at above 60hz in most occassions if you also want a good resolution. You said 60 hz and infinitely high refresh rate in the same sentence.hz is a measure of cycles a second.So how can something be 60 cycles a second and infinite cycles a second at the same time?
And the LCD they tried to give me at work that was at 60hz constantly gave me headaches.
Show me a Graphics designer, a Cad user, digital movie editor, high end gamer that likes them.
Also I still don't understand what's the advantage to the normal user, that wouldn't use that s-video on his desk at work. Plus he doesn't move his monitor at work, so weight and size mean nothing.
Flat screen is a fad. But I like it because it made my 21" trinitron really drop in price before I bought it.
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I do not feel I was being an ass. I just want slashdotters to stop posting whatever they feel like, and actually start posting statements they can stand behind. It would be nice to read comments from real workers at real companies as apposed to every slashdotter claiming that he works for whatever company he needs to say he works for, just to back up his point.
Dude, I said same exchange, of course they have the same area, code, but their not supposed to be able to have the same exchange. And no, it wasn't flaimbait. I am serious, I was told that cell phones and land lines could never have the same exchange by the FCC, and one of the parents made some random claim that he worked for a cell phone company, and they can switch your home phone over to your cell phone if you like.
These aren't people, There ACs. ACs are something that's below the lowest of the low. The complete lack of accountability make them like a child prank calling somebody. They don't stand by their statements at all, and I would love to meet the guy who said he would punch me in the nose. I was simply saying that this guys competition was pretty pussed out. If he thinks linux is so secure we shouldn't need the rules he stipulated.
I would say the odds, of a non-technical company, such as the automotive industry, to switch over to linux are probably the same odds you have at winning the lottery. Major corporations that don't know computers, don't take risks with a piece of software that is almost completely impossible to get support for.
Windows 2000 Advanced was far better than all the previous NTs, and from what I have seen, Windows 2003 server runs amazingly quick and light. There seem to be significant performance advantages to the upgrade. And by the way, there were many facilities that never ever got code red or Nimda. because microsoft had a patch out almost immediately and if you were intelligent, you downloaded it and applied it. If there were have as many hackers trying to hack linux as there are people trying to hack windows, I am sure we would see all of Linux's flaws as well.
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Sir there are three reasons why I don't believe you. You posted as anonymous coward for one, two you said you work for a cell phone carrier and your involved in the development fo the porting system, but you failed to mention what that carrier is. And three, your on slashdot. Currently all cell phone exchanges are specifically only for cell phones, reason number one why you don't get a lot of calls from people trying to sell you stuff, because telesales aren't allowed to call these exchanges. Now how would they then let cell phones start having normal exchanges. Give me the number, of just one, one single person that has a cell phone that has the same area code and exchange as a landline phone. and I will believe you. GIVE ME INFO not BS
What's up with these rules. No damage done to any data? I have to leave port 25 open? what a legitimate exploit and what's script kiddie stuff. Last time I checked there was no hacking rule book, this sounds a lot like flag football, sort of like football, but the pussy version.
Am I wrong, or is Mystery Science Theatre 3000 one of the Funniest movies ever made?
I imagine that in all reality, Microsoft is hacked more than linux because it is on 95% of the computers. Linux has shit loads of holes. Give me the address of your public linux server and I'll give you the address of my windows box, and we'll see who go's down first.
really???I played it through without cheating the first time and beat it in maybe 2 weeks. I thought it was an amazing game, your problem, probably stems from playing a first person shooter on a council, which is simply a very silly idea. I hope I can get halo for my computer whoop X-box players asses when they get on internet servers. lets face it, I can shoot someone in the head, using my mouse, about 3 times as fast as they can aim with a joystick.
People from a country that could be taken over with a sharpened spoon, shouldn't harass, the tiger in their sig.
on my landline, I get checks all the time, that I get to keep if I will switch services, so about once every 3 months I switch long distance carriers
No you can't, the exchanges are regulated by the fcc... so you simply can't have the same exchange for a land line and a cell phone.
Maybe they just don't like posting every way to hack into the OS on a website read by millions of juvenile hackers. I mean I am sure all the people with public linux servers would just love that. Oh shit, someone just found 30 different ways to hack my box, and oh christ, their not going to have a patch for these problems untill some open source programmer gets around to fixing it. This is the only problem with open source, If you find a security hole in a Sun system, or god forbid, a windows 2000 system, the community tries to keep it as quite as possible while their programmers come out with a patch and release it to everyone. While in open source, I have to announce that my front door lock is broken, to the whole world, and hope that a good natured lock smith fixes it, before half the crooks in the world steal all my stuff and rape my dog.
dude you can just type archive at the start of the link in place of "www" and your in. You must not be much of a computer user if you couldn't figure this out. Editors let these stories through because ocassionally I get tired of reading "I love Linux" articles
Especially in Counterstrike. I took down my counterstrike server because I spent half my time banning cheaters. The key thing I turned off was the ability to see anything after you died, I found players would ghost enimies and then relay this to their teamates sitting in the same room. It really pissed me off, because of an obvious reason, the dead shouldn't be able to talk to the living, (without a medium and a big seance). I think cheating in one player games, like I did after I went through and beat Hitman 2 the first time, is fun. But people who cheat in online games, how do they even find it enjoyable. Have the fun of the game is the challenge, being able to cheat and win is stupid. Just develop your skills and get better. All cheaters should have their IP and user name out on a CS ban list, that all CS servers will automatically view and then BAN those people.
Am I the only person that likes having a phone that actually puts the mic near his mouth and the speaker near his ear, my friends cell phone is so small, I have to choose between shouting, or not hearing a damn thing, because if the speaker is at my ear, the mic is at my cheek and if the mic is at my mouth the speeker is about 2 inches below my ear. lol
I think home users are a good example of users, and office users that don't do graphics or architectural designs. You know why, because these people that you don't consider users, account for 90% of computer users, and being in business, I know that doing something that 90% of your customer base has no use of, is ummm....kind of silly.
This confused me as well. their sending out a poll to find out how many developers, develop for linux as apposed to windows, and they send it to known linux developers. lol. That's like sending out a poll on how many people smoke cigarettes only to people who have purchased things with camel cash.
SCSI drives perform better because they are different drives, it is not simply because they are SCSI. Most current drives have a sustainable drive read rate of 48MBps, which is far under the 133. And I imagine, that in a drive to drive copy on the same system you will be limited on the write speed of a drive which is much slower than its read speed. SCSI drives are often faster because they are 10,000 or 15,000 RPM drives, as apposed to 7500 RPM drives. They are physically different drives. And why are you assuming he has them in a master dumb slave combination, most computer users take advantage of IDE raid these days. And why on earth would you be doing a drive to drive copy with SCSI, if you have SCSI wouldn't you have them in RAID 0,1,5 ? In which case you can't do a drive to drive copy because the computer sees the multiple drives as one drive? I am glad you posted under anonymous coward, I wouldn't have put my name on that post either.
I believe the freezer trick is designed for drives that are suffering bearing issues. In a lot of drives, their problem is that the bearings have gotten flat spots or other problems and as they heat up because of too much friction, they make it impossible for the drive to spin up. But when you put these drives in thefreezer you constrict the size of the bearings and reduce the temperature of the drive as a whole. It only works for a while, because eventually the bearings expand with heat, and cause too much friction again, and put the drive to a hault.
Sounded like an honest question. Yes we have started to test Serial drives, on a couple of the newer motherboards. I own a consulting company and we like to test all hardware before allowing any of out clients to deploy it. So we were running tests on the Seagate Barracuda series, as you well know is about the only drive we could get our hands on. For our motherboard we used a Abit KD7-S RAID. I happen to love Abit, but I have no data to prove this is the best board, I guess it's just a gut feeling. The install went easy, and yes, it freed up a lot of space in the computer, which may be an advantage to dual CPU people who have heat problems in their cases. Maybe in the future they'll make cases around the idea of having the heat output of the hard drive farther from the CPU because of the length available to serial ata. But if your looking for a big performance jump. I am terribly sorry. It is a very nice system, and runs fine, I will say, I had no troubles whatsoever and have added this box to my home network, and use it for encoding my home videos of my sons soccer tapes, 7 years of soccer, 15 games a year= lots and lots of divx encoding time. lol. But seriously, if your a gamer, or for that matter, just a performance computer enthusiast that is still concerned with cost, then get yourself a good ATA133 drive. For the cost of the drives and the larger drive sizes you can buy, I think it isn't worth it to make the jump to Serial ATA yet. But we have found something to use these Serial ATA drives for. I now have a small computer installed into the trunk of my TA and I run serial ATA and power to a mount I installed in my dash, where I now have a place that I can push in a Serial ATA drive to use in my in car DVD/MP3/Fuel control system computer. It's great, I can plug in an 80GB hard drive in my house, transfer all the divx movies, MP3s and whatever else I want for my week of commuting to and from the office, pop the drive out of my case at home, (I made it so I can slide it in/out of the face) and pop the drive in my dash in my car, and watch my divx's on my in dash LCD when I am sitting in high traffic. So this technology certainly has its advantages. even if it really isn't speed yet.
Ummm...do you look at a lot of static images on your monitor? I ussually play movies and such on mine.So the time it takes these things to change from one color to another matters just as much as the time it takes to refresh the amount of light on the screen. Plus I would like to discuss the lifetime of an average lcd display. I work at a facility that has been using LCDs for 4 years now, we buy princetons, and corneas, and I have found that we replace an LCD display about 3 times as often as a monitor. We have a monitor in our system room, a big 21" trinitron that has been sitting there for 6 years and it still looks as good as the day we bought it. LCDs tend to suffer backlight problems, bad pixels, poor resolution.
They don't have an infinitely high refresh rate, hence why you can't set them at above 60hz in most occassions if you also want a good resolution. You said 60 hz and infinitely high refresh rate in the same sentence.hz is a measure of cycles a second.So how can something be 60 cycles a second and infinite cycles a second at the same time? And the LCD they tried to give me at work that was at 60hz constantly gave me headaches. Show me a Graphics designer, a Cad user, digital movie editor, high end gamer that likes them. Also I still don't understand what's the advantage to the normal user, that wouldn't use that s-video on his desk at work. Plus he doesn't move his monitor at work, so weight and size mean nothing. Flat screen is a fad. But I like it because it made my 21" trinitron really drop in price before I bought it.