I booted from the XP CD, and it says "cannot find any storage on which to install XP. If you have drivers for this storage reboot and press F8 during the boot process."
So I did, and it worked. XP was released in 2001, before SATA drivers were available in the OS. As such, my CD has no drivers for it. It doesn't matter whether the BIOS can see the drive, it matters whether XP can write to the drive. In my case, it could not, unless I loaded them from floppy during the boot process.
Did you boot from an official XP CD and install it fresh on a blank drive?
True, the bus speed increase isn't going to improve performance.
The main thing is cabling, and ease of installation. With PATA you have these big, wide cables, and you have to deal with master/slave issues (who hasn't experienced the "computer won't boot when you install a new drive problem, at least once).
With SATA it's not an issue.
Only problem with SATA right now is that XP doesn't support it in the OS, so you have to download drivers to a floppy (a FLOPPY!) and hit F8 during boot to check for 3rd party drivers. I wanted to have a machine with no floppy (been the case on my Macs for YEARS) but I had to run to Fry's and pop for $9 so I could install the OS on a SATA drive:-P
Probably because AAC sounds significantly better at 128 kbps than MP3? I would imaging bit rate/bandwidth was a serious consideration, as was quality.
And if Apple went with 256 kbps MP3s from the Music store, Steve would have to say "5000 songs in your pocket" instead of 10,000, and the iPod Mini would be advertised as 500 songs instead of 1000. You know, marketing;-)
Well see, I'm apparently too much of a novice to know about 7 different package/installer formats and I've never used Gentoo either;-)
It's a very fragmented community, and if I have problems someone says "dumbass you used the wrong mechanism." Each distro has its own way of doing it... how helpful is that to me? I just want to install the software.
I actually went to OS X where I'm a LOT happier, but in the later linux days I was using Ximian's Red Carpet to update stuff and it was a ton easier than standard Red Hat, but there were one or two packages (in particular, XFree86) which had dependencies that weren't resolved which sent me into RPM hell. I don't even know what an ebuild is:-/
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Nice end run. Sorensen isn't used as the default codec anymore, it hasn't been the default codec for a couple years. So you're whining about 4 year old archived content?
The blocks on turbo cars usually have MORE than enough headroom -- they're not going to wear out "in a hurry." In fact the Audi block on the S4 (older, v6 twin turbo) can handle upwards of 450 HP, and the stock car has 250. Chips raise it to about 310... and lots of people throw bigger turbos on there.
That's not to say some things may be affected, in particular it seems a fair bit more likely to blow a turbo with the higher boost. And the S4 basically requires you to pull the engine to swap the turbos, so you're looking at $6K (parts+labor) for a turbo swap, and no warranty there.
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Apple's player (for about 2 years now) has broadcast in a standard MPEG-4 codec. So you can play it in ANY MPEG-4 compliant player. This could be a set-top box, it could be some freeware player on Linux (assuming they license the codec from the standards body), or whatever. You don't need QuickTime player.
As such, it's the only standards-based player. And, the streaming server is available for free, as open source (Darwin Streaming Server), so you can run it on a Solaris box, or a Linux box, or whatever. Plus there are no CALs.
So not sure what the real issue is, here.
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Well, but Windows Media Server charges CALs to the streamer to serve content, so they hit the providers on the back-end.
QTSS is the only one that's free TO stream. And it's also available as open source (Darwin Streaming Server). And it broadcasts standard MPEG-4, so you can watch it in any MPEG-4 compliant player (e.g. Linux), genius. By far the most open and standard format.
So with Red Hat, when I wanted to upgrade from KDE 2.0 to 2.2, I didn't have RPMs. Or, I should say, I found some, but they didn't include Qt. So I had to go find it somewhere else... it took me about 5 hours to assemble the relevant RPMs for KDE, which required an updated version of XFree86, which had some dependencies, which made me compile a file, install it, and then install about 35 RPMs.
And when I was done... IT DIDN"T WORK. So I reformatted.
That to upgrade the UI? Hmmm. NOT easy.
Note, I had the same problem going from KDE 1.x to 2.0. But that time, at least it worked:-/
I don't get it... how is this marked as off topic? Linux has a long ways to go with wireless hardware support... a MAJOR PITA compared to say a Mac where you just open up and go.
The old form factor is too big for working out, in many cases. Lots of people have those crappy radios, because they can be velcro'd on an arm. They're great for that -- perfect for lifting weights or jogging. An iPod is NOT perfect for that... it's kinda bulky and heavy to put on your arm, or on a belt clip (I know, I've tried the belt). The Mini is perfect for that. It's not better for EVERYONE, but it is better for many of the people who didn't buy the original iPod because it was too big (or too expensive -- and I mean total dollars, not price/GB).
Interesting second point about innovating too fast for the market. You may have a point there for many things (especially because Apple has a history of being short on supply early in the release cycle) -- though the market does move fast.
I wouldn't agree that they're too fast in innovating, when they're tied to Motorola's processor speeds. Thankfully not as much of any issue anymore;-)
Why would FM on Solaris (Sparc) be a nifty combination where FM on OS X/G5 wouldn't be? The G5 runs circles around the Sparc, price/performance (hell, even flat-out performance) wise.
The OS that a PDA runs really should be an implementation detail. The thing's damn ugly, and it has fewer features than a Palm had 5 years ago, and it's a lot bigger, and it's a lot more expensive.
So what's the point, that it runs Linux?
You know, I absolutely LOVE my TiVo. It's the best PVR evAr. And it runs on Linux! But actually, I couldn't care less that it runs Linux, I just care that it's a damn good PVR, and if it were based on MacOS or WinCE and ran the exact same way, I'd love it just as much.
When I want to eat dinner, I'd much rather use a fork than a 34 bladed Swiss-army knife with a fork attachment. The former just works a whole lot better.
I have no need for a portable video player that can't play DVDs. The screen is too small... I have to rip the DVDs (breaking encryption in the process), etc.
Really... I just want the world's best portable music player. I don't want to record movies, and I don't want to take pictures with it (I have a Canon D60 for the latter, and I don't take movies). You can go off on your little troll... it's somewhat apparent that you haven't used an iPod much.
How are you even gonna get a movie on that thing? Run DeCSS to rip it, and all that good stuff? To get 2 movies on it?
It seems like an MP3 player with 8 MB of Flash. I never bought one, didn't even consider it (I was thinking of going Mini CD at the time). Then the iPod came along, and changed what was possible (okay there were other devices before, but they were 2x the weight of iPod).
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Grousing about a $1000 TiVo/DirecTV cost is silly when the dam HD TV and associated stuff is in the same price range.
HD adoption is slow, and you know people have been saying the dish companies, cable companies, and Microsoft's Media Center PC would kill off TiVo for about 3 years now, and TiVo continues to grow and defy them.
Really, TiVo is outstanding. My TiVo and my PowerBook are the only electronics items I have an actual affection for. DirecTiVo is so much better than analog cable I'm beside myself with the difference. It's changed my life where TV is concerned, and it'll take a helluva long time for me to even look at any alternatives. TiVo service is "free" for me because with my DirecTV package they pay the TiVo service charge (I'm aware the charge is buried in there, but single billing is compelling).
I'm one of those annoying folks that preaches to my friends about it, too. Probably sold 5 or 6 of 'em so far.
I disagree that 10.2 to 10.3 is any different than Windows 2000 to Windows XP.
Windows XP is most certainly the successor to Windows 2000 -- it's intended to replace it, on the workstation/client side. XP is not a server OS, that's what Server 2003 is for.
10.2 to 10.3 is not a "minor" update -- there are certainly as many differences between 10.2 and 10.3 as there are between Windows 95 and 98, or Windows NT and Windows 2000, for example.
OS X supports TCP/IP over firewire. Firewire has significantly lower latency than ethernet, and it's a shared bus.
So Apple's biotech clusters use FW800 as a large, shared bus for distributing work packets. It's like a "free" high speed low latency third ethernet port... great for shared high-speed communications.
They wanted to place highly in the top 500. The top 500 runs in "sweeps," meaning they have to be up and running on the DATE when the results are calculated. I don't know how often the sweeps are run -- ever 6 months or year or so.
So they most certainly WERE in a hurry. Now they can swap them out for more space-efficient Xserve G5's (and maybe gain some more speed with the extra space).
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I booted from the XP CD, and it says "cannot find any storage on which to install XP. If you have drivers for this storage reboot and press F8 during the boot process."
So I did, and it worked. XP was released in 2001, before SATA drivers were available in the OS. As such, my CD has no drivers for it. It doesn't matter whether the BIOS can see the drive, it matters whether XP can write to the drive. In my case, it could not, unless I loaded them from floppy during the boot process.
Did you boot from an official XP CD and install it fresh on a blank drive?
PATA and SATA are generally used inside the computer, USB/USB2 and Firewire are generally used externally (i.e. cable connected).
Not sure of all the details/exactly why, though PATA and SATA are both (significantly) faster than Firewire (even Firewire 800).
USB2 is 480 Mbit/sec, Firewire 800 is 800 Mbit/sec, PATA is 133 MByte/sec, SATA is 150 MByte/sec (so both nearly 2x Firewire 800).
True, the bus speed increase isn't going to improve performance.
:-P
The main thing is cabling, and ease of installation. With PATA you have these big, wide cables, and you have to deal with master/slave issues (who hasn't experienced the "computer won't boot when you install a new drive problem, at least once).
With SATA it's not an issue.
Only problem with SATA right now is that XP doesn't support it in the OS, so you have to download drivers to a floppy (a FLOPPY!) and hit F8 during boot to check for 3rd party drivers. I wanted to have a machine with no floppy (been the case on my Macs for YEARS) but I had to run to Fry's and pop for $9 so I could install the OS on a SATA drive
Probably because AAC sounds significantly better at 128 kbps than MP3? I would imaging bit rate/bandwidth was a serious consideration, as was quality.
;-)
And if Apple went with 256 kbps MP3s from the Music store, Steve would have to say "5000 songs in your pocket" instead of 10,000, and the iPod Mini would be advertised as 500 songs instead of 1000. You know, marketing
Well see, I'm apparently too much of a novice to know about 7 different package/installer formats and I've never used Gentoo either ;-)
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It's a very fragmented community, and if I have problems someone says "dumbass you used the wrong mechanism." Each distro has its own way of doing it... how helpful is that to me? I just want to install the software.
I actually went to OS X where I'm a LOT happier, but in the later linux days I was using Ximian's Red Carpet to update stuff and it was a ton easier than standard Red Hat, but there were one or two packages (in particular, XFree86) which had dependencies that weren't resolved which sent me into RPM hell. I don't even know what an ebuild is
Nice end run. Sorensen isn't used as the default codec anymore, it hasn't been the default codec for a couple years. So you're whining about 4 year old archived content?
Get off it.
The blocks on turbo cars usually have MORE than enough headroom -- they're not going to wear out "in a hurry." In fact the Audi block on the S4 (older, v6 twin turbo) can handle upwards of 450 HP, and the stock car has 250. Chips raise it to about 310... and lots of people throw bigger turbos on there.
That's not to say some things may be affected, in particular it seems a fair bit more likely to blow a turbo with the higher boost. And the S4 basically requires you to pull the engine to swap the turbos, so you're looking at $6K (parts+labor) for a turbo swap, and no warranty there.
Apple's player (for about 2 years now) has broadcast in a standard MPEG-4 codec. So you can play it in ANY MPEG-4 compliant player. This could be a set-top box, it could be some freeware player on Linux (assuming they license the codec from the standards body), or whatever. You don't need QuickTime player.
As such, it's the only standards-based player. And, the streaming server is available for free, as open source (Darwin Streaming Server), so you can run it on a Solaris box, or a Linux box, or whatever. Plus there are no CALs.
So not sure what the real issue is, here.
Well, but Windows Media Server charges CALs to the streamer to serve content, so they hit the providers on the back-end.
QTSS is the only one that's free TO stream. And it's also available as open source (Darwin Streaming Server). And it broadcasts standard MPEG-4, so you can watch it in any MPEG-4 compliant player (e.g. Linux), genius. By far the most open and standard format.
So with Red Hat, when I wanted to upgrade from KDE 2.0 to 2.2, I didn't have RPMs. Or, I should say, I found some, but they didn't include Qt. So I had to go find it somewhere else... it took me about 5 hours to assemble the relevant RPMs for KDE, which required an updated version of XFree86, which had some dependencies, which made me compile a file, install it, and then install about 35 RPMs.
:-/
And when I was done... IT DIDN"T WORK. So I reformatted.
That to upgrade the UI? Hmmm. NOT easy.
Note, I had the same problem going from KDE 1.x to 2.0. But that time, at least it worked
I don't get it... how is this marked as off topic? Linux has a long ways to go with wireless hardware support... a MAJOR PITA compared to say a Mac where you just open up and go.
Grandma doesn't want to know what ndis means.
The old form factor is too big for working out, in many cases. Lots of people have those crappy radios, because they can be velcro'd on an arm. They're great for that -- perfect for lifting weights or jogging. An iPod is NOT perfect for that... it's kinda bulky and heavy to put on your arm, or on a belt clip (I know, I've tried the belt). The Mini is perfect for that. It's not better for EVERYONE, but it is better for many of the people who didn't buy the original iPod because it was too big (or too expensive -- and I mean total dollars, not price/GB).
;-)
Interesting second point about innovating too fast for the market. You may have a point there for many things (especially because Apple has a history of being short on supply early in the release cycle) -- though the market does move fast.
I wouldn't agree that they're too fast in innovating, when they're tied to Motorola's processor speeds. Thankfully not as much of any issue anymore
You're telling me there were people who ACTUALLY thought Vorbis would be as popular as AAC and MP3?
Where are these people? I have some candy bars to sell them for $27.00. They're worth $80, really!
Why would FM on Solaris (Sparc) be a nifty combination where FM on OS X/G5 wouldn't be? The G5 runs circles around the Sparc, price/performance (hell, even flat-out performance) wise.
The OS that a PDA runs really should be an implementation detail. The thing's damn ugly, and it has fewer features than a Palm had 5 years ago, and it's a lot bigger, and it's a lot more expensive.
So what's the point, that it runs Linux?
You know, I absolutely LOVE my TiVo. It's the best PVR evAr. And it runs on Linux! But actually, I couldn't care less that it runs Linux, I just care that it's a damn good PVR, and if it were based on MacOS or WinCE and ran the exact same way, I'd love it just as much.
What OS does the iPod run? Does anybody care?
When I want to eat dinner, I'd much rather use a fork than a 34 bladed Swiss-army knife with a fork attachment. The former just works a whole lot better.
I have no need for a portable video player that can't play DVDs. The screen is too small... I have to rip the DVDs (breaking encryption in the process), etc.
Really... I just want the world's best portable music player. I don't want to record movies, and I don't want to take pictures with it (I have a Canon D60 for the latter, and I don't take movies). You can go off on your little troll... it's somewhat apparent that you haven't used an iPod much.
Because it's not?
How are you even gonna get a movie on that thing? Run DeCSS to rip it, and all that good stuff? To get 2 movies on it?
It seems like an MP3 player with 8 MB of Flash. I never bought one, didn't even consider it (I was thinking of going Mini CD at the time). Then the iPod came along, and changed what was possible (okay there were other devices before, but they were 2x the weight of iPod).
Grousing about a $1000 TiVo/DirecTV cost is silly when the dam HD TV and associated stuff is in the same price range.
HD adoption is slow, and you know people have been saying the dish companies, cable companies, and Microsoft's Media Center PC would kill off TiVo for about 3 years now, and TiVo continues to grow and defy them.
Really, TiVo is outstanding. My TiVo and my PowerBook are the only electronics items I have an actual affection for. DirecTiVo is so much better than analog cable I'm beside myself with the difference. It's changed my life where TV is concerned, and it'll take a helluva long time for me to even look at any alternatives. TiVo service is "free" for me because with my DirecTV package they pay the TiVo service charge (I'm aware the charge is buried in there, but single billing is compelling).
I'm one of those annoying folks that preaches to my friends about it, too. Probably sold 5 or 6 of 'em so far.
I disagree that 10.2 to 10.3 is any different than Windows 2000 to Windows XP.
Windows XP is most certainly the successor to Windows 2000 -- it's intended to replace it, on the workstation/client side. XP is not a server OS, that's what Server 2003 is for.
10.2 to 10.3 is not a "minor" update -- there are certainly as many differences between 10.2 and 10.3 as there are between Windows 95 and 98, or Windows NT and Windows 2000, for example.
I tried the Bat, it was a freaking mess. Just way too many folders, it's really tough to consolidate multiple accounts.
Outlook 2003 is the best client available on Windows. And I tried Pegasus, the Bat!, used Eudora for 4 years, and a couple others.
In Outlook you can disable most of the HTML stuff, too -- easy to turn off web beacons and it's fairly locked down.
At least, it is in Outlook 2003 -- of course he conveniently omitted 4 years of progress/updates from his review because it contradicted his points.
The OS can be as much of a dud as... well...
I'm gonna go take the red pill.
Damnit, and I left 4 moderator points on the table yesterday :-/
OS X supports TCP/IP over firewire. Firewire has significantly lower latency than ethernet, and it's a shared bus.
So Apple's biotech clusters use FW800 as a large, shared bus for distributing work packets. It's like a "free" high speed low latency third ethernet port... great for shared high-speed communications.
They wanted to place highly in the top 500. The top 500 runs in "sweeps," meaning they have to be up and running on the DATE when the results are calculated. I don't know how often the sweeps are run -- ever 6 months or year or so.
So they most certainly WERE in a hurry. Now they can swap them out for more space-efficient Xserve G5's (and maybe gain some more speed with the extra space).